The Worst Argument in the World Related Transcript Alan Saunders : Hello, and welcome to The Philosopher's Zone , I'm Alan Saunders. Now, on this show we deal with all sorts of philosophical arguments, and, as you might expect, I don't always agree with all of them, but I usually try to be fair, to allow each argument to be presented as sympathetically as possible and to let you make up your own minds. This week, however, we're looking at bad arguments, or to be fair, arguments that a lot of people think are bad, and to talk about that I'm joined by two philosophical connoisseurs of bad argument: Peter Slezak associate professor in the school of history and philosophy of science at the University of New South Wales and, from the same university James Franklin, professor in the school of mathematics and statistics, who's also a philosopher. Welcome to you both. James Franklin : Thank you. Peter Slezak : Thanks, Alan. Alan Saunders : Now, the reason we're here doing this is that after a recent edition of the show I had an email from a listener who said, 'Please have more discussion on computers and mind, but next time please get a guest who understands that the Chinese Room is the worst argument in all of philosophy.' James Franklin : A big claim. Alan Saunders : Well, I was going to say, if it is it's up against some stiff competition, but Jim Franklin, you I believe don't