Lecture 5 of 21Video Lectures1 h 3 min
Lecture 5: Hume's Dialogues: Revealed Religion vs. Empirically-Based Religion
Prof. James Paradis · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- Darwin and Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (at MIT OpenCourseWare)
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- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as MIT OpenCourseWare states it. Non-commercial use only.
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- 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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All the lectures
- Lecture 1: Darwin and Design
- Lecture 2: Alice in Wonderland
- Lecture 3: Genesis, Aristotle, and the Emergence of World Views
- Lecture 4: Voltaire and the Accidental World
- Lecture 5: Hume's Dialogues: Revealed Religion vs. Empirically-Based Religion
- Lecture 6: Philo and the Limits of Analogy
- Lecture 7: William Paley and his Legacy
- Lecture 8: Adam Smith "Wealth of Nations" (1776): The Idea of an Oeconomy
- Lecture 9: Malthus and the Compound Interest World
- Lecture 10: Malthus and the Compound Mind
- Lecture 11: Darwin and the Economy of the Natural World
- Lecture 12: Natural Selection
- Lecture 13: Darwinian Synthesis
- Lecture 14: Darwin's "The Descent of Man" (1871) and Human Culture
- Lecture 15: Naturalism and Utopia: Samuel Butler's "Erewhon"
- Lecture 16: Butler and Technological Autonomy
- Lecture 17: Evolution and Cybernetics
- Lecture 18: Alan Turing and the Thinking Machine
- Lecture 20: Dualism and Personality in Post-Evolutionary Fiction
- Lecture 21: T. H. Huxley and the Two States
- Lecture 22: H. G. Wells "The Time Machine" and The Final Utopia