Maps | General information (large file!) | Details and features | Specifications | Issue areas | Press release
Methodology | Background paper | The cartographic metaphor | Criteria | How the maps work (large file!)
For Instructors and Students | Importance of Turing debate | For instructors | For students | Protagonist index | FAQS
Commentary and Reviews | Commentary and reviews | Errata and corrections
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Map Details

• Seven Maps. 3 x 4 feet each folded to 9 x 12 inches
• Elegantly printed in color
• 97-130 arguments and rebuttals per map
• Total of over 800 major moves in the debates summarized and threaded into claims, rebuttals, and counterrebuttals, arranged so that the current stopping point of each thread is easily seen
• Organized into over 70 issue areas
• 43 sidebars provide history and further background
• A chronological intellectual history
• Current status (or frontier) of debate easily identifable
• Identifies original arguments by over 380 protagonists world-wide, hence provides intellectual history of the debate
• Eleven major philosophical camps of the protagonists (or schools) summarized
  

The Handbook
The Handbook contains:

• Explanation of methodology of mapping arguments
• Criteria for inclusion of moves in the debates
• Complete bibliography of over 480 references cited on the maps
• Index of 380 protagonists

Sources
Major journals and books as well as important contributions from hard-to-find journals, often missed even by experts. The team read over 1,000 sources, threw away over 500 , and used almost that many to produce the maps.

Navigation aids

• Over 300 icons and illustrations provide easy-to-return-to landmarks, designate major debate regions, and clarify interrelationships between arguments and counterclaims.
• Over 60 photos identify key players.