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