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Darwin and Design

Prof. James Paradis · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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About

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.

Lectures

Video Lectures

  1. Lecture 1: Darwin and Design 54 min · Video
  2. Lecture 2: Alice in Wonderland 57 min · Video
  3. Lecture 3: Genesis, Aristotle, and the Emergence of World Views 1 h · Video
  4. Lecture 4: Voltaire and the Accidental World 50 min · Video
  5. Lecture 5: Hume's Dialogues: Revealed Religion vs. Empirically-Based Religion 1 h 3 min · Video
  6. Lecture 6: Philo and the Limits of Analogy 57 min · Video
  7. Lecture 7: William Paley and his Legacy 1 h 4 min · Video
  8. Lecture 8: Adam Smith "Wealth of Nations" (1776): The Idea of an Oeconomy 57 min · Video
  9. Lecture 9: Malthus and the Compound Interest World 59 min · Video
  10. Lecture 10: Malthus and the Compound Mind 47 min · Video
  11. Lecture 11: Darwin and the Economy of the Natural World 55 min · Video
  12. Lecture 12: Natural Selection 55 min · Video
  13. Lecture 13: Darwinian Synthesis 53 min · Video
  14. Lecture 14: Darwin's "The Descent of Man" (1871)‏ and Human Culture 50 min · Video
  15. Lecture 15: Naturalism and Utopia: Samuel Butler's "Erewhon" 53 min · Video
  16. Lecture 16: Butler and Technological Autonomy 52 min · Video
  17. Lecture 17: Evolution and Cybernetics 55 min · Video
  18. Lecture 18: Alan Turing and the Thinking Machine 57 min · Video
  19. Lecture 20: Dualism and Personality in Post-Evolutionary Fiction 56 min · Video
  20. Lecture 21: T. H. Huxley and the Two States 53 min · Video
  21. Lecture 22: H. G. Wells "The Time Machine" and The Final Utopia 1 h · Video

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department
Literature
Teacher
Prof. James Paradis
Term
Fall 2010
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Psychology and the brain, History, Philosophy, Literature and writing
Source
MIT OpenCourseWare
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as MIT OpenCourseWare states it. Non-commercial use only. MIT OpenCourseWare's terms
Attribution
Prof. James Paradis. Darwin and Design. Fall 2010. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu/. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.
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