Darwin and Design

Darwin and Design

21 Videos · Sep 9, 2010

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Humans are social animals; social demands, both cooperative and competitive, structure our development, our brain and our mind. This course covers social development, social behaviour, social cognition and social neuroscience, in both human and non-human social animals. Topics include altruism, empathy, communication, theory of mind, aggression, power, groups, mating, and morality. Methods include evolutionary biology, neuroscience, cognitive science, social psychology and anthropology.

Videos

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Lecture 12: Natural Selection

James Paradis

Dec 19, 2012

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Lecture 17: Evolution and Cybernetics

James Paradis

Dec 19, 2012

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Lecture 20: Dualism and Personality in Post-Evolutionary Fiction

James Paradis

Dec 19, 2012

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Lecture 9: Malthus and the Compound Interest World

James Paradis

Dec 19, 2012

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Lecture 15: Naturalism and Utopia: Samuel Butler's "Erewhon"

James Paradis

Dec 19, 2012

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Lecture 11: Darwin and the Economy of the Natural World

James Paradis

Dec 19, 2012

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Lecture 10: Malthus and the Compound Mind

James Paradis

Dec 19, 2012

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Lecture 5: Hume's Dialogues: Revealed Religion vs. Empirically-Based Religion

James Paradis

Dec 19, 2012

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Lecture 7: William Paley and his Legacy

James Paradis

Dec 19, 2012

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Lecture 1: Darwin and Design

James Paradis

Dec 19, 2012

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Lecture 3: Genesis, Aristotle, and the Emergence of World Views

James Paradis

Dec 19, 2012

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Lecture 13: Darwinian Synthesis

James Paradis

Dec 19, 2012

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Lecture 4: Voltaire and the Accidental World

James Paradis

Dec 19, 2012

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Lecture 21: T. H. Huxley and the Two States

James Paradis

Dec 19, 2012

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Lecture 14: Darwin's "The Descent of Man" (1871)‏ and Human Culture

James Paradis

Dec 19, 2012

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Lecture 2: Alice in Wonderland

James Paradis

Dec 19, 2012

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Lecture 8: Adam Smith "Wealth of Nations" (1776): The Idea of an Oeconomy

James Paradis

Dec 19, 2012

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Lecture 6: Philo and the Limits of Analogy

James Paradis

Dec 19, 2012

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2192 views

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Lecture 18: Alan Turing and the Thinking Machine

James Paradis

Dec 19, 2012

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Lecture 22: H. G. Wells "The Time Machine" and The Final Utopia

James Paradis

Dec 19, 2012

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Lecture 16: Butler and Technological Autonomy

James Paradis

Dec 19, 2012

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1835 views