Liberal Education: Analog Dreams in a Digital Age
About this ebook
The contributors to this volume write from the perspectives of philosophy, classical studies, political theory, fine art, curriculum development, and computing and information science. Several essays consider how the conventional concerns and agendas of liberal education have acquired a new urgency in the digital age. They reflect upon how the deployment of artificial intelligence confronts and problematizes what it means to be human, and how liberal education is needed to preserve and ensure what makes us humans thrive. Other essays consider how AI must be understood as an extension of our humanity and how the ethos must inform the further development and deployment of new technologies of liberal education. These challenging essays pose hard questions and the unflinching exploration of matters at the cutting edge of science, culture, and how they merge together with education.
About the author
Karim Dharamsi, Ph.D., is Vice-Provost, Academic and Professor of Philosophy at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada. He has published articles in the philosophy of history, on the philosophy of R.G. Collingwood, Wittgenstein, Frege, the philosophy of education and liberal education. He has served as chair of the Department of General Education at Mount Royal University and is a former Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Philosophy and Liberal Studies at St. Mary’s University in Calgary.
David Clemis, Ph.D., is Director of Liberal Education and Associate Professor of History at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada. He has published articles on drug and alcohol history in Early Modern Europe and British social and cultural history. He is a former chair of the Department of General Education at Mount Royal University.
