Issues
Issue 18: Summer 1997
EDITORIAL
Talking to Ourselves?
by Rick Lewis
ARTICLES
Art: Reaching for the Sublime
Peter Benson replies to Colin Radford’s ‘Art: The Demotion Derby’.
Dan Dennett and the Conscious Robot
Roger Caldwell discusses Descartes, Darwin, Dennett & dogs.
Darwin was my Grandmother
Mike Appleby considers thoughts about evolution and the evolution of thought.
Freud, Aristotle & Judaism
Gur Hirshberg on competing conceptions of human nature.
Grief Revisited
Michael Williams on death and detachment.
Philosophy on the Internet
Talking to the Animals
Patrick Phillips asks: Is It Incredible?
Thinking About Thinking
A brief introduction to one of the fundamenal questions for Artifical Intelligence research, by Tomas Campbell.
What’s Out There?
Edward Ingram visits Roboworld.
LETTERS
Letters to the Editor
God and the Spice Girls • What’s a Theory? • Solipsists unite! • Meanings and Illusions
REVIEWS
Does God Exist?
Does God Exist?: The Debate Between Theists and Atheists by J.P. Moreland & Kai Neilsen, with additional contributions. A review by Sue Johnson.
Heidegger’s Feeble Excuses
John Mann reviews Martin Heidegger: A Political Life by Hugo Ott.
Living and Partly Living
John Mann reviews The Last Philosophy by Don Cupitt, What is Philosophy? by Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, and The Bridge to Nothingness by Shlomo Giora Shoham.
FICTION
The Philosophy of Horace Rump
by Professor Horace Rump (as dictated to Ronald R. Johnson)