“Tools of the Mind”
What are the tools that Carr discusses in this chapter? How are they relevant to human intellectual progress?
Describe the difference between determinists and instrumentalists. Which does Carr more closely align with?
What is the fundamental technology for reading and writing?
What is Socrates’s complaint about the printed word? Are there echoes of his complaint in our modern-day concern over the internet?
And finally, how would you summarize this section of the book? Can you infer Carr’s thesis? What is it?“Tools of the Mind”
What are the tools that Carr discusses in this chapter? How are they relevant to human intellectual progress?
Describe the difference between determinists and instrumentalists. Which does Carr more closely align with?
What is the fundamental technology for reading and writing?
What is Socrates’s complaint about the printed word? Are there echoes of his complaint in our modern-day concern over the internet?
And finally, how would you summarize this section of the book? Can you infer Carr’s thesis? What is it?“Tools of the Mind”
What are the tools that Carr discusses in this chapter? How are they relevant to human intellectual progress?
Describe the difference between determinists and instrumentalists. Which does Carr more closely align with?
What is the fundamental technology for reading and writing?
What is Socrates’s complaint about the printed word? Are there echoes of his complaint in our modern-day concern over the internet?
And finally, how would you summarize this section of the book? Can you infer Carr’s thesis? What is it?“Tools of the Mind”
What are the tools that Carr discusses in this chapter? How are they relevant to human intellectual progress?
Describe the difference between determinists and instrumentalists. Which does Carr more closely align with?
What is the fundamental technology for reading and writing?
What is Socrates’s complaint about the printed word? Are there echoes of his complaint in our modern-day concern over the internet?
And finally, how would you summarize this section of the book? Can you infer Carr’s thesis? What is it?