Issue 28 4th quarter 2004

Contents

Reporter

6 News Hound
News, plus straw poll and mediawatch.

11 Word of Mouse
Someone is looking for you...

13 Into Iraq
Can a soldier be a lover of wisdom?

18 Out and About
The book which changed Tim Le Bon.

20 Highly Strung
Singing songs in seminars.

Thoughts

23 Rausch
Simon Critchley's TPM Essay.

29 Sci-Phi
Copenhagen goes up in smoke.

31 300 years later
Alan Haworth on John Locke's legacy.

35 Provocations
Can cheating make sport fairer?

37 Testing Times
From argument to experiment.

Forum - Artificial Intelligence

43 Igor Aleksander
An interview with the leading expert on AI.

47 Chinese Rooms
Mark Bishop takes a look at a classic thought experiment.

52 Minds aren't computers
Argues Raymond Tallis.

56 An I for an I
Luciano Floridi wants more information.

61 Emotion
Aaron Sloman criticises Antonio Damasio.

65 Computer Gas
Mike Wheeler on the limits of computation.

70 Hard Learning
Joanna Bryson on AI's big problem.

Discussion

73 Open Debate
Stephen Burwood responds to responses to his article on spin.

78 Nigel Warburton
Chats about thinking straight.

The Lowdown

82 The Directory
Listings of UK and US philosophy organisations.

86 Conceptual Carvery
Philosophy's vital distinctions.

80 Snapshot
The lowdown on William James.

83 Theory of Knowledge
Part two of a series on epistemology.

Review

87 We take a look at new publications.

Last Words

92 Bertrand's Break
Cartoons, quizes and the crossword.

94 Letters
Having your say.

96The Skeptic
Hysteria's repeating itself.