Ode to Meaning / Robert Pinsky -- Resurrecting the Author / Nicholas Wolterstorff -- Meaning in the Work of Art: A Hermeneutic Perspective / Charles Guignon -- Words for the Wordless / D. Z. Phillips -- Musical Thinking / Jerrold Levinson -- Is Twelve-Tone Music Artistically Defective? / Diana Raffman -- Self-Mutilation, Interpretation, and Controversial Art / Jill Sigman -- Time in the Movies / Gideon Yaffe -- Philosophy Screened: Experiencing: The Matrix / Thomas E. Wartenberg -- The Self-Disarmament of God as Evolutionary Pre-Adaptation / Jack Miles -- Midwest Studies in Philosophy 1976-2005