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 2: Alice in Wonderland
Dec 19, 2012 2877 views
Lecture 1: Darwin and Design
Dec 19, 2012 3149 views
Lecture 18: Alan Turing and the Thinking Machine
Dec 19, 2012 2205 views
Lecture 16: Butler and Technological Autonomy
Dec 19, 2012 1845 views
Lecture 14: Darwin's "The Descent of Man" (1871) and Human Culture
Dec 19, 2012 2324 views
Lecture 5: Hume's Dialogues: Revealed Religion vs. Empirically-Based Religion
Dec 19, 2012 2400 views
Lecture 20: Dualism and Personality in Post-Evolutionary Fiction
Dec 19, 2012 2107 views
Lecture 4: Voltaire and the Accidental World
Dec 19, 2012 2578 views
Lecture 7: William Paley and his Legacy
Dec 19, 2012 2194 views
Lecture 11: Darwin and the Economy of the Natural World
Dec 19, 2012 2250 views
Lecture 12: Natural Selection
Dec 19, 2012 2055 views
Lecture 8: Adam Smith "Wealth of Nations" (1776): The Idea of an Oeconomy
Dec 19, 2012 2522 views
Lecture 21: T. H. Huxley and the Two States
Dec 19, 2012 2061 views
Lecture 15: Naturalism and Utopia: Samuel Butler's "Erewhon"
Dec 19, 2012 2438 views
Lecture 3: Genesis, Aristotle, and the Emergence of World Views
Dec 19, 2012 2848 views
Lecture 13: Darwinian Synthesis
Dec 19, 2012 2202 views
Lecture 10: Malthus and the Compound Mind
Dec 19, 2012 2141 views
Lecture 22: H. G. Wells "The Time Machine" and The Final Utopia
Dec 19, 2012 2050 views
Lecture 6: Philo and the Limits of Analogy
Dec 19, 2012 2203 views
Lecture 9: Malthus and the Compound Interest World
Dec 19, 2012 2058 views
Lecture 17: Evolution and Cybernetics
Dec 19, 2012 2588 views