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Rescuing Mind from the Machines
Vincent J. Carchidi agrees with Descartes and friends that our ability to use language creatively distinguishes our minds from computers.
[Issue 168: June/July 2025: Digital Philosophy]
Stephen Fry
Perhaps unshockingly for someone who is an actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator and writer, Stephen Fry has a deep interest in words and how we use them. After hearing him lecture on that subject, Marcel Steinbauer-Lewis asked him about Artificial Intelligence and how it connects with the extraordinary lure of language.
[Issue 168: June/July 2025: Interview]
Noam Chomsky (1928-)
by Terence Green
[Issue 162: June/July 2024: Philosophical Haiku]
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, and a popular writer on linguistics and evolutionary psychology. Angela Tan interviews him about politics, language, death, and reasons to be optimistic.
[Issue 160: February/March 2024: Interview]
What’s Stopping Us Achieving Artificial General Intelligence?
A. Efimov, D. Dubrovsky, and F. Matveev explore how the development of AI is limited by the perceived need to understand language and be embodied.
[Issue 155: April/May 2023: AI & Mind]
In Praise of Aphorisms
Grahame Lockey writes pithy observations to make you think about pithy observations to make you think.
[Issue 153: December 2022 / January 2023: Creativity]
Saul Kripke (13th November 1940 - 15th September 2022)
Stefan Rinner tells us about Kripke’s theories and why they matter.
[Issue 153: December 2022 / January 2023: Obituary]
🤔 Emojivism 😀
Sally Latham introduces a moral theory for millennials.
[Issue 135: December 2019 / January 2020: Articles]
Arrival
Christopher Carroll asks if communicating with aliens really would be possible.
[Issue 131: April/May 2019: Films]
Simon & Finn
by Melissa Felder
[Issue 130: February/March 2019: Cartoon]
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