Reason Papers (vol. 38, no. 1; Spring 2016)

The latest issue of Reason Papers, edited by Carrie-Ann Biondi and me, is now available online.

Vol. 38, no. 1; Spring 2016 
Full issue in pdf

Symposium: Philosophy of Play
Gadamer, Dewey, and the Importance of Play in Philosophical Inquiry — Christopher C. Kirby and Brolin Graham
Child-Centered Play Therapy —William Schultz
Reflections on the Presence of Play in University Arts and Athletics —Aaron Harper
The Reconstructive and Normative Aspects of Bernard Suits’s Utopia —Francisco Javier Lopez Frias

Articles
Minimal State Taoism —William Irwin
Liberalism: The Fifteen Strongest Challenges —Stephen R. C. Hicks
Selling Genocide I: The Earlier Films —Gary James Jason

Review Essays
Review Essay: Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter’s Hamilton: The Revolution —Robert Begley
Review Essay: Whence Did German Propaganda Films Derive Their Power: Ian Garden’s The Third Reich’s Celluloid War—Gary James Jason

Book Review
Tara Smith’s Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System —Carrie-Ann Biondi

Afterword
The  Creator: Male and Female: Russell’s Joy and Chandor’s A Most Violent Year —Timothy Sandefur

Reason Papers Announcement

As some of my readers are aware, I recently joined Reason Papers as co-editor. I’m very excited about this opportunity!

Here’s a little about the journal from Reason Papers’s website:

Reason Papers is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal appearing online twice a year. It features full-length Articles and Discussion Notes, along with Symposia, Book Reviews, and Review Essays. Our Fall 2011 issue inaugurates a new section of the journal, “Afterwords,” devoted to brief commentaries on contemporary issues, including original translations from non-English sources. 

As a “journal of interdisciplinary normative studies,” Reason Papers publishes work whose content is “normative in the philosophical sense.” As an interdisciplinary journal, Reason Papers’s mission is guided by an ideal of disciplinary integration that extends beyond philosophical reflection on normative concepts. We welcome work in any academic field, as long as it meets the relevant standards of rigor for the fields it discusses, and as long as its normative implications are clear or made explicit.

If you are interested in submitting to the journal, please read the Submissions information: http://reasonpapers.com/submissions/ 

We also have lots of opportunities for book reviews as well. See our list of books for which we are looking for reviewers: http://reasonpapers.com/booksforreview/