Darwin and Design | Literature | MIT OpenCourseWare

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Prof. James Paradis

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Literature

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Fall 2010

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Undergraduate

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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

Course Info

Instructor

Prof. James Paradis

Departments

Literature

As Taught In

Fall 2010

Level

Undergraduate

Topics

Learning Resource Types

Lecture Videos

Written Assignments

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