Around elections it is common to hear loud calls for citizens of democracies to make themselves heard and vote when important elections take place. This is so prevalent in liberal societies that it oftentimes seems as if the call is to just vote, regardless of how one does so. Is just voting what really matters?
{"title":"Get the Vote Out!","authors":"Julia Maskivker","doi":"10.5840/TPM2021928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/TPM2021928","url":null,"abstract":"Around elections it is common to hear loud calls for citizens of democracies to make themselves heard and vote when important elections take place. This is so prevalent in liberal societies that it oftentimes seems as if the call is to just vote, regardless of how one does so. Is just voting what really matters?","PeriodicalId":42886,"journal":{"name":"TPM-The Philosophers Magazine","volume":"132 1","pages":"27-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86812534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind","authors":"Kristin Andrews","doi":"10.5840/tpm20219476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/tpm20219476","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":42886,"journal":{"name":"TPM-The Philosophers Magazine","volume":"22 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72622722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Snapshot: J. W. Dunne","authors":"L. Harvey","doi":"10.5840/TPM20219338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/TPM20219338","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":42886,"journal":{"name":"TPM-The Philosophers Magazine","volume":"61 1","pages":"44-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75019548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
John Stuart Mill famously maintained that “animal pleasures” – like enjoying good smells and tastes – are lower quality than the pleasures tied to higher cognition, like the pleasure of enjoying an opera or understanding a mathematical proof. This downgrading is particularly common in the ethical literature about eating animals. Peter Singer, James Rachels, Gary Francione, Alastair Norcross and dozens of other ethicists make quick work of defending vegetarianism by presuming that “gustatory pleasure” is trivial. But is it?
约翰·斯图亚特·密尔(John Stuart Mill)有一个著名的观点,他认为“动物的快乐”——比如享受美好的气味和味道——比那些与高级认知相关的快乐(比如欣赏歌剧或理解数学证明的快乐)的质量要低。这种降级在有关食用动物的伦理文献中尤为常见。彼得·辛格、詹姆斯·雷切尔斯、加里·弗朗西奥内、阿拉斯泰尔·诺克罗斯和其他几十位伦理学家迅速为素食主义辩护,他们认为“味觉上的愉悦”微不足道。但这是真的吗?
{"title":"Persistent Anosmia","authors":"Jean Kazez","doi":"10.5840/tpm20219222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/tpm20219222","url":null,"abstract":"John Stuart Mill famously maintained that “animal pleasures” – like enjoying good smells and tastes – are lower quality than the pleasures tied to higher cognition, like the pleasure of enjoying an opera or understanding a mathematical proof. This downgrading is particularly common in the ethical literature about eating animals. Peter Singer, James Rachels, Gary Francione, Alastair Norcross and dozens of other ethicists make quick work of defending vegetarianism by presuming that “gustatory pleasure” is trivial. But is it?","PeriodicalId":42886,"journal":{"name":"TPM-The Philosophers Magazine","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84855015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gabrielle Suchon lived a uniquely solitary life. She joined no salons, although her position as minor nobility would not have barred her; there is no evidence of correspondence with other intellectuals of the time, a practice engaged in as a means of disseminating and developing ideas, and, remaining single, she did not have access to the intellectually stimulating social life a husband might have provided, as did other women of her class in the seventeenth century. Despite this apparent isolation from the cultural community, she had access to libraries and her two 600-page treatises were masterpieces of philosophical erudition, reflecting not only an extensive appreciation of ancient philosophy but also the ability to produce a finely-detailed analysis of the social norms of her time.
{"title":"Snapshot: Gabrielle Suchon","authors":"Rachel Paine","doi":"10.5840/TPM20219212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/TPM20219212","url":null,"abstract":"Gabrielle Suchon lived a uniquely solitary life. She joined no salons, although her position as minor nobility would not have barred her; there is no evidence of correspondence with other intellectuals of the time, a practice engaged in as a means of disseminating and developing ideas, and, remaining single, she did not have access to the intellectually stimulating social life a husband might have provided, as did other women of her class in the seventeenth century. Despite this apparent isolation from the cultural community, she had access to libraries and her two 600-page treatises were masterpieces of philosophical erudition, reflecting not only an extensive appreciation of ancient philosophy but also the ability to produce a finely-detailed analysis of the social norms of her time.","PeriodicalId":42886,"journal":{"name":"TPM-The Philosophers Magazine","volume":"26 1","pages":"50-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73916075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Pure and the Practical","authors":"Robin Jeshion","doi":"10.5840/tpm20219468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/tpm20219468","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":42886,"journal":{"name":"TPM-The Philosophers Magazine","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88853373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eric Schwitzgebel, L. Bright, C. Jennings, Morgan Thompson, Eric Winsberg
{"title":"The Diversity of Philosophy Students and Faculty","authors":"Eric Schwitzgebel, L. Bright, C. Jennings, Morgan Thompson, Eric Winsberg","doi":"10.5840/TPM20219343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/TPM20219343","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":42886,"journal":{"name":"TPM-The Philosophers Magazine","volume":"45 1","pages":"71-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87043204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind","authors":"B. Thompson","doi":"10.5840/TPM20219349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/TPM20219349","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":42886,"journal":{"name":"TPM-The Philosophers Magazine","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76091037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}