[Buddha-l] Liberal arts technophobia [was: Shingon sutras]

[Michael Paris]

Not all philosophers are Internet-ignorant. Both Philosophy and
Philosophy Now magazines have excellent web sites, with numerous
references to online resources.

Then there's the philosophy listserv, PHILOS-L, with its companion
list. CHORA. 

There are many online courses (though all I'm familar with are based in
Great Britain). I had the privilege of taking an email course in basic
Stoicism from the British scholar Dr. Keith Seddon. 

...

You're referring to MS/PC-DOS or Apple DOS (for the Apple ][, AKA Apple
//)? 

I liked the //e. Command line -- that's for me. Never cared a whit for
Macs. 


Michael


--- "Richard P. Hayes" <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:

[snip]

> > I suspect there are still folks in the languages, history,
philosophy, and other liberal arts who don't read things online, and
who would not  give much respect to anything published online.
> >
>
> I think you're partially right about philosophers. There is a huge
> amount of excellent material available on line. (My students
> regularly print it up and hand it in as their own work.) I routinely
draw on
> on- line materials, many of which are very nicely thought out and
well
> presented. The resources are stunning. So SOME philosophers are
> obviously using the Internet with great skill. On the other hand, I
> find that most of my colleagues are pretty much ignorant of what is
> available on line. What amazes me is that some of them insist on 
> getting a new state-of-the-art computer every two years or so, 
> bemoaning the fact that their machines are obsolete. But all they do 
> with their expensive machines is read e-mail and write documents in 
> Word. They could do THAT on DOS 3.3. 
> 





		
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