Sep 9, 2010 
21 videos 
Darwin and Design
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.
Lecture 11: Darwin and the Economy of the Natural World
Dec 19, 2012 2253 views
Lecture 14: Darwin's "The Descent of Man" (1871) and Human Culture
Dec 19, 2012 2328 views
Lecture 2: Alice in Wonderland
Dec 19, 2012 2880 views
Lecture 1: Darwin and Design
Dec 19, 2012 3152 views
Lecture 18: Alan Turing and the Thinking Machine
Dec 19, 2012 2208 views
Lecture 16: Butler and Technological Autonomy
Dec 19, 2012 1848 views
Lecture 5: Hume's Dialogues: Revealed Religion vs. Empirically-Based Religion
Dec 19, 2012 2403 views
Lecture 20: Dualism and Personality in Post-Evolutionary Fiction
Dec 19, 2012 2109 views
Lecture 4: Voltaire and the Accidental World
Dec 19, 2012 2581 views
Lecture 7: William Paley and his Legacy
Dec 19, 2012 2196 views
Lecture 12: Natural Selection
Dec 19, 2012 2059 views
Lecture 8: Adam Smith "Wealth of Nations" (1776): The Idea of an Oeconomy
Dec 19, 2012 2525 views
Lecture 21: T. H. Huxley and the Two States
Dec 19, 2012 2066 views
Lecture 15: Naturalism and Utopia: Samuel Butler's "Erewhon"
Dec 19, 2012 2443 views
Lecture 3: Genesis, Aristotle, and the Emergence of World Views
Dec 19, 2012 2851 views
Lecture 13: Darwinian Synthesis
Dec 19, 2012 2205 views
Lecture 10: Malthus and the Compound Mind
Dec 19, 2012 2144 views
Lecture 22: H. G. Wells "The Time Machine" and The Final Utopia
Dec 19, 2012 2053 views
Lecture 6: Philo and the Limits of Analogy
Dec 19, 2012 2206 views
Lecture 9: Malthus and the Compound Interest World
Dec 19, 2012 2060 views
Lecture 17: Evolution and Cybernetics
Dec 19, 2012 2591 views