“My biggest challenge is to get rid of their fears around science or space knowledge,” Tekin said. “They always think of science as difficult to fathom. At first, they were …
“When you look at the history of philosophy, you will see that it was the mother discipline that had the humanities and the sciences contained,” Tekin said while developing the …
“we form a circle of involvement with one another and teach each other to be open-minded about each other’s opinions and biases.” “Professor Serife Tekin- Director of Medical Humanities Program …
“The goal of internationalizing UTSA’s Medical Humanities program is to expose students to a variety of health situations and enhance their ability to work collaboratively across and within diverse communities,” …
“I want to have as much face time with students as I can and I want faculty to also have a lot of out-of-class interactions with students because, at an …
“It’s creating an illusion of help.” – Serife Tekin “The Problem with Mental Health Bots”, WIRED, Grace Browne, October 1, 2022: https://www.wired.com/story/mental-health-chatbots/
“That’s the beauty of philosophy. There are no set answers,” Tekin said. “As long as you develop an argument and you can support your conclusion with premises and examples, there …
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Body language and tone are important to traditional therapy, Tekin said, but Woebot doesn’t recognize such nonverbal communication. “It’s not at all like how psychotherapy works,” Tekin said. “This teen …
“The pandemic hit and this technology basically skyrocketed. Everywhere I turn now there’s a new chatbot promising to deliver new things,” said Serife Tekin, an associate philosophy professor at the …