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Re:More undergraduates are majoring in philosophy by bayareaguy on Sunday April 06, 2008 @04:13PM (#156387)
It's also good for people who later work in Cognitive Science or Artificial Intelligence.
Re:More undergraduates are majoring in philosophy by michaelr on Sunday April 06, 2008 @04:17PM (#156390)
I'm just finishing up a course on the "Philosophy of Mind" and I can not agree more.
Re:More undergraduates are majoring in philosophy by donal on Sunday April 06, 2008 @07:23PM (#156491)
I took a class with the same title and it was fascinating. Unfortunately it didn't reach to far into the digital age, but it was just good to get a broad sense of the arguments before delving into any new writings on the subject.

I also think I learned more in my Philosophy classes than my Comp Sci classes, but then I dropped out of the CompSci program and majored in Philo, so I am probably biased.

I'd judge myself better off than a significant number of technical majors that just were trying to get a good job after graduation. I had the benefit of a Liberal Arts school too, so I also took a lot of CompSci classes (How many Philo majors do you know that took Digital Electronics and had to build up an simple computer on a breadboard?).