Philosophy Looks at Chess

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Chess, the ancient strategy game, meets the latest, cutting-edge philosophy in this unique book. When 12 philosophers weigh in on one of the world's oldest and most beloved pastimes, the results are often surprising. Philosophical concepts as varied as phenomenology and determinism share the page with a treatise on hip-hop chess tactics and the question of whether Garry Kasparov is, in fact, a cyborg. Putting forth a remarkable array of different views on chess from philosophers with varied chess-proficiency, Philosophy Looks at Chess is an engaging read for chess adherents and the philosophically inclined alike. Front Contents Introduction 1 To Know the Past One Must First Know the Future: Raymond Smullyan and theMysteries of retrograde Analysis 2 A Deep Blue Grasshopper: Playing Games with Artificial Intelligence 3 Playing Chess in the Chinese Room 4 Garry Kasparov Is a Cyborg, or What ChessBase Teaches Us about Technology 5 Chess-Playing Computers and Embodied Grandmasters: In What Ways Does the Difference Matter? 6 The Difficult Ways of God and Caissa: Chess, Theodicy, and Determinism in Gadamer 7 Who Plays Games in Philosophy? 8 Hip-Hop Tactics: A Culturalogic Expression of the African Aesthetic's Role in Determining the Basis of Creativity on the Sixty-Four Squares of Warfare 9 Quiet, Please! There's a Game Here: Discourse and Silence in the Formal Pragmatics of a Chess Match 10 Casuistry and Chess: Some Methodological Lessons for Ethics 11 Chess Is Not a Game 12 The Reviled Art Contributors Index Back