Darwin and Design (Fall 2010) (M-I-T)

Lecture 10: Malthus and the Compound Mind (M-I-T)

Lecture 11: Darwin and the Economy of the Natural World (M-I-T)

Lecture 12: Natural Selection (M-I-T)

Lecture 13: Darwinian Synthesis (M-I-T)

Lecture 14: Darwin's "The Descent of Man" (1871)‏ and Human Culture (M-I-T)

Lecture 15: Naturalism and Utopia: Samuel Butler's "Erewhon" (M-I-T)

Lecture 16: Butler and Technological Autonomy (M-I-T)

Lecture 17: Evolution and Cybernetics (M-I-T)

Lecture 18: Alan Turing and the Thinking Machine (M-I-T)

Lecture 19: Dualism and Personality in Post-Evolutionary Fiction (M-I-T)

Lecture 1: Darwin and Design (M-I-T)

Lecture 20: T. H. Huxley and the Two States (M-I-T)

Lecture 21: H. G. Wells "The Time Machine" and The Final Utopia (M-I-T)

Lecture 2: Alice in Wonderland (M-I-T)

Lecture 3: Genesis, Aristotle, and the Emergence of World Views (M-I-T)

Lecture 4: Voltaire and the Accidental World (M-I-T)

Lecture 5: Hume's Dialogues: Revealed Religion vs. Empirically-Based Religion (M-I-T)

Lecture 6: Philo and the Limits of Analogy (M-I-T)

Lecture 7: William Paley and his Legacy (M-I-T)

Lecture 8: Adam Smith "Wealth of Nations" (1776): The Idea of an Oeconomy (M-I-T)

Lecture 9: Malthus and the Compound Interest World (M-I-T)