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
Lecture 17: Evolution and Cybernetics
Dec 19, 2012
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Lecture 9: Malthus and the Compound Interest World
Dec 19, 2012
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Lecture 22: H. G. Wells "The Time Machine" and The Final Utopia
Dec 19, 2012
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Lecture 6: Philo and the Limits of Analogy
Dec 19, 2012
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Lecture 1: Darwin and Design
Dec 19, 2012
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Lecture 18: Alan Turing and the Thinking Machine
Dec 19, 2012
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Lecture 16: Butler and Technological Autonomy
Dec 19, 2012
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Lecture 2: Alice in Wonderland
Dec 19, 2012
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Lecture 14: Darwin's "The Descent of Man" (1871) and Human Culture
Dec 19, 2012
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Lecture 5: Hume's Dialogues: Revealed Religion vs. Empirically-Based Religion
Dec 19, 2012
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Lecture 20: Dualism and Personality in Post-Evolutionary Fiction
Dec 19, 2012
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Lecture 4: Voltaire and the Accidental World
Dec 19, 2012
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Lecture 7: William Paley and his Legacy
Dec 19, 2012
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Lecture 11: Darwin and the Economy of the Natural World
Dec 19, 2012
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Lecture 12: Natural Selection
Dec 19, 2012
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Lecture 8: Adam Smith "Wealth of Nations" (1776): The Idea of an Oeconomy
Dec 19, 2012
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Lecture 21: T. H. Huxley and the Two States
Dec 19, 2012
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Lecture 15: Naturalism and Utopia: Samuel Butler's "Erewhon"
Dec 19, 2012
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Lecture 3: Genesis, Aristotle, and the Emergence of World Views
Dec 19, 2012
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Lecture 13: Darwinian Synthesis
Dec 19, 2012
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Lecture 10: Malthus and the Compound Mind
Dec 19, 2012
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