the philosophers’

magazine issue 28 • 4th quarter 2004

reporter 6news hound news, plus straw poll and mediawatch

11word of mouse someone is looking for you...

13into Iraq can a soldier be a lover of wisdom?

18out & about the book that changed Tim LeBon

20highly strung singing songs in seminars thoughts 23rauschSimon Critchley’s TPM Essay

29sci-phiCopenhagengoesupinsmoke

31300 years later Alan Haworth on John Locke’s legacy

35provocationscan“cheating”makesportfairer?

37testing times from argument to experiment forum 43IgorAleksanderaninterviewwiththeleadingexpertonAI

47chinese rooms Mark Bishop takes a look at a classic thought experiment

52minds aren’t computers argues Raymond Tallis

56an i for an i Luciano Floridi wants more information

61emotionAaronSlomanattacksAntonioDamasio

65computer gas Mike Wheeler on the limits of computation

70hard learning Joanna Bryson on AI’s big problem discussion 73open debate Stephen Burwood responds to responses to his article on spin

78NigelWarburtonchatsaboutthinkingstraight subscriptions page 36

the lowdown 80snapshotthelowdown on William James

82the directory listings for UK and US philosophy organisations

83theory of knowledge the third in the series on understanding epistemology

86conceptualcarverydistinguishingbetweentypesandtokens review 87New books by Nicholas Capaldi, Martha Nussbaum, GER Lloyd, Michael Otsuka and Roger Trigg last words 92Bertrand’sbreakfunandgames

94lettershavingyour say

96the skeptic hysteria’s repeating itself