Margolis, Joseph. The Cultural Spaces of the Arts and the Infelicities of Reductionism. Columbia University Press, 2010, xvi + 213 pp., $24.50 cloth. For over fifty years now, Joseph Margolis has systematically explored the concepts of art, person, understanding, and culture and the relations among them. This book is both a short summa of and an argumentative coda to those wide‐ranging...
Animism is the belief that human beings have souls, or, by extension, the belief that animals, plants or even rocks have souls; that is, that they are subjects of feeling or consciousness, or display intelligence, in ways that ensouled human beings do. This extended view is sometimes called animatism or panpsychism, in order to distinguish it from the more restricted view, though in common...