Review: On the Internet
User Review - Chris Friend - GoodreadsExcellent text discussing the implications of the Internet across social, educational, and philosophical grounds. Dreyfus makes a strong argument for the importance of embodied knowledge—an argument ... Read full review
Review: On the Internet (Thinking in Action)
User Review - Katrinka - GoodreadsAlthough brief, the book provides a very thoughtful examination of how life online may or may not enhance human existence. The second edition came out, though, before Google (et al) introduced its ... Read full review
Review: On the Internet (Thinking in Action)
User Review - Cbarrett - GoodreadsPhilosophical look at the disembodied nature of internet. Interesting that I can type that on the internet. Read full review
Review: On the Internet (Thinking in Action)
User Review - Charles - GoodreadsThis was recommended to me by Dennis Packard, a philosophy professor here at BYU. Having been like Rip Van Winkle during my three years in Russia, the book offered some well-written thoughts about ... Read full review
Review: On the Internet
User Review - Oktagerard - Goodreadsthis book gives me the negative impact of internet. on the internet we lose our embodiment aspect and the unconditional commitment. good book. i read it many-many times because i write my small thesis in philosophy from this book. Read full review
Review: On the Internet
User Review - Leonard Houx - GoodreadsWriting on the internet, Hubert Dreyfus delivers lucid phenomenological insight combined with well-researched, concrete evidence. Certainly one of the best, soundest books I have read about the ... Read full review
Review: On the Internet
User Review - Indra - Goodreadsvery interesting view from a phenomenologist on how to compare the virtual and 'real' worlds by a long time critic of artificial intelligence. Read full review
Review: On the Internet (Thinking in Action)
User Review - Gustavo - GoodreadsThis is one of the best college books that I have read in a long time. It really depicts our nihilistic persona that we indulge ourselves in; the present age of anticipation, the disembodiment of the ... Read full review
Review: On the Internet
User Review - Michael - GoodreadsGood ideas, but the wordiness reveals a lack of deep understanding for the medium. Worth a skim, not a read. Useful. Read full review
Review: On the Internet
User Review - Garrett - Goodreadsa philosophical analysis of the internet, distance education and virtual realms like second life. Read full review