This year we started with the rather broad theme of Philosophy’s Role in Life, with hopes that this year’s issue would reflect topics that we find relevant and significant in our lives. We have chosen papers that engage with who we are, who we ought to be, and our own construction of the world that then reflects back on ourselves. With many thanks to our editors, artists, and writers who made this edition possible.

Anamnesis begins with an examination of what it means for the self to suffer. Ben King-Hails from Colorado College considers the different ways that Buddhism and Kohut’s Psychoanalysis respond to human suffering. The next essay in Anamnesis challenges us to consider knowledge production in animals - what kind of life is capable of systems of truth, knowledge, and belief. Lauren Dotson of Trinity University examines coherentism as a grounding for knowledge production in animals and non-human life. Following this, the next essay asks us to explore the world and structures we materially inhabit. Yuqin Wu of Haverford College approaches the self and the knowledge it produces as necessarily entwined with the world we have constructed. Finally, we have interwoven excerpts of what we might call wisdom from Professor John Kaag of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell in his examinations of life and philosophy.