Philosophy Looks at Chess

"Ever since the invention of chess in sixth-century India, the royal game of strategy has fascinated thinkers of all persuasions. Philosophers from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Ludwig Wittgenstein and John Searle have found in chess a rich source of insights, lessons, and mysteries." "In Philosophy Looks at Chess, twelve professional thinkers playfully explore various intriguing aspects of chess."--BOOK JACKET.

Introduction	p. vii
To Know the Past One Must First Know the Future: Raymond Smullyan and the Mysteries of Retrograde Analysis	p. 1
A Deep Blue Grasshopper: Playing Games with Artificial Intelligence	p. 13
Playing Chess in the Chinese Room	p. 25
Garry Kasparov Is a Cyborg, or What ChessBase Teaches Us about Technology	p. 39
Chess-Playing Computers and Embodied Grandmasters: In What Ways Does the Difference Matter?	p. 65
The Difficult Ways of God and Caissa: Chess, Theodicy, and Determinism in Gadamer	p. 89
Who Plays Games in Philosophy?	p. 119
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	p. 137
Quiet, Please! There's a Game Here: Discourse and Silence in the Formal Pragmatics of a Chess Match	p. 157
Casuistry and Chess: Some Methodological Lessons for Ethics	p. 171
Chess Is Not a Game	p. 191
The Reviled Art	p. 209
Contributors	p. 227
Index	p. 231
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