Hubert L. Dreyfus

On the Internet

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Can the internet solve the problem of mass education, and bring human beings to a level of community? This title agues that there is much in common between the disembodied, free floating web and Descartes' separation of mind and body. It includes a chapter on 'Second Life'.

Produktdetails

• Thinking in Action
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 12
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 193mm x 127mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 220g
• ISBN-13: 9780415775168
• ISBN-10: 0415775167
• Artikelnr.: 24428972

Autorenporträt

Hubert Dreyfus is Professor of Philosophy in the Graduate School at the University of California at Berkeley, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Hype about Hyperlinks 2. How Far is Distance Learning
from Education? 3. Disemobied Telepresence and the Remoteness of the Real
4. Nihilism on the Information Highway 5. Embodiment and Meaning in the
Metaverse? Conclusion