Letter From The Editors

This year we endeavored to highlight a wide variety of philosophical topics, as a kind of love-letter to the discipline, with its various far-reaching areas of inquiry. We have chosen papers that sparked our curiosity, challenged us to think differently, and fostered the kind of conversations which require us to critically assess the assumptions which inform our everyday lives. Many thanks to our editors, artists, and writers who made this edition possible.

Anamnesis begins with an examination of how - if at all - legal punishment can be justly administered within predominant ethical conceptions of justice and utility.

John Hanson from Colby College considers the conceptual complexities separating legal and non-legal punishment, and how, in teasing apart the difference between these kinds of cases, the concept becomes increasingly elusive.

The next essay in Anamnesis challenges us to consider whether our understanding of the phenomenon of time precludes the existence, or at least intellectual appropriation, of certain kinds of knowledge. Cadenkumar Hise from California State University, Fullerton grapples with the epistemological implications of A- and B-theories of time, and whether we are cognitively and linguistically equipped to comprehend "eternal truths."

As an introductory piece to examine the dynamic intercourse of philosophy and life, William Kim from University of Notre Dame layered out for us the socratesian tradition of a formative relationship between friendship and identity; with an abstractive overview of atimeless debate that spans out our two-thousand-years of intellectual history, we try to record the process of how pure philosophical contemplations strive to structuralize, review, and reinvent the dynamics of life within this intercourse.

We hope you enjoy.

-Adley Vogel, Alexix (Yuan) Cao, and Hannah Zhao