This paper sets out to evaluate the claim that Aristotle’s Assertoric Syllogistic is a relevance logic or shows significant similarities with it. I prepare the grounds for a meaningful comparison by extracting the notion of relevance employed in the most influential work on modern relevance logic, Anderson and Belnap’s Entailment. This notion is…[Read more]

This article for the late lamented Canadian contemporary art journal KAPSULA takes the form of an interview with Kiwi-Australian sculptor Michele Beevors about her installation “The Wreck of Hope.” More broadly the conversation is about making art to address very grim situations.

This is a review of August Macke and Franz Marc: An Artist Friendship. Edited by Volker Adolphs of the Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn and Annegret Hoberg of the Städtisches Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich and published by Hatje Cantz, this catalogue accompanies an exhibition held at the Kunstmuseum Bonn, 25 September 2014 – 4 January 2015; and at the…[Read more]

This paper discusses the collaboration of Franz Marc and Hugo Ball to mount a production of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” in Munich in 1914. The play was never produced, but not for the reasons reported by earlier scholarship. This paper delves into the difficulties Marc encountered, and explains more fully than has been done before his essay…[Read more]