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Issue 18
Summer 1997

EDITORIAL

Talking to Ourselves?

by Rick Lewis

ARTICLES

Talking to the Animals

Patrick Phillips asks: Is It Incredible?

What's Out There?

Edward Ingram visits Roboworld.

Thinking About Thinking

A brief introduction to one of the fundamental questions for Artificial Intelligence research, by Thomas Campbell.

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.

Art: Reaching for the Sublime

Peter Benson replies to Colin Radford's 'Art: The Demotion Derby'.

Grief Revisited

Michael Williams on death and detachment.

Freud, Aristotle & Judaism

Gur Hirshberg on competing conceptions of human nature.

LETTERS

Opinions on God and the Spice Girls, Meanings and Illusions, and more...

BOOK REVIEWS

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.

Does God Exist?

'Does God Exist' The debate between theists and atheists. 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.

HUMOUR

The Philosophy of Horace Rump

by Professor Horace Rump (as dictated to Ronald R. Johnson)