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Instructor

Prof. James Paradis

Departments

Literature

As Taught In

Fall 2010

Level

Undergraduate

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Lecture Videos

Lecture 1: Darwin and Design

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

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