"Minds and Machines" for Humanities Majors: A Liberal Arts Course in Computers and Cognition.

Cushing, Steven

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ERIC Number: EJ449343

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Publication Date: 1991

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"Minds and Machines" for Humanities Majors: A Liberal Arts Course in Computers and Cognition.

Cushing, Steven

Computers and the Humanities, v25 n5 p275-80 Oct 1991

Discusses "Minds and Machines," a one-semester undergraduate course for nontechnical majors. Explains that the course examines how philosophical problems of knowledge, cognition, language, and human nature can be investigated with computer-related concepts and techniques. Describes experiments conducted during the course, including mind reading, story guessing, and memory limits experiments. (SG)

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Uses in Education, Epistemology, Heuristics, Higher Education, Humanities Instruction, Linguistics, Majors (Students), Models, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Study

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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