ABSTRACT
It is late summer 2014, and I am scrolling through the pages of The New York Times online. A question captures my attention: “Are we losing touch with the sense of touch?” It is a philosophical query put forward to invite reflection on the significance of what Aristotle designated in De Anima [On the Soul] as the primary form of sense—touch—in our modern world. What does it mean to touch in the age of the Facebook “like” and the Tinder “left-swipe”? Is touch still the most indispensable of the senses as Plato’s contrarian pupil once proclaimed?
