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Part 1 Metaphysics: review of John McDowell's "Mind and World"; specialsciences - still autonomous after all these years - a reply to Jaegwon Kim's"Multiple Realization and the Metaphysics of Reduction". Part 2 Concepts:review of Christopher Peacocke's "A Study of Concepts"; there are norecognitional concepts - not even RED; there are no recognitional concepts -not even RED, part 2 - the plot thickens; do we think in mentalese? remarkson some arguments of Peter Carruthers; review of A.W. Moore's "Points ofView". Part 3 Cognitive architecture: review of Paul Churchland's "The Engineof Reason, The Seat of the Soul"; connectionism and the problem ofsystematicity (continued) - why Smolensky's solution "still" doesn't work;there and back again -a review of Annette Karmiloff-Smith's "BeyondModularity"; review of Jeff Elman et al, "Rethinking Innateness"; review ofSteven Mithen's "The Prehistory of the Mind". Part 4 Philosophical Darwinism:review of Richard Dawkins's "Climbing Mount Improbable"; deconstructingDennett's Darwin; is science biologically possible? comments on somearguments of Patricia Churchland and of Alvin Plantinga; review of StevenPinker's "How the Mind Works" and Henry Plotkin's "Evolution in Mind".