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MIT 21L.448J Darwin and Design, Fall 2010

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This video course covers Darwin's model for understanding how natural objects and systems can help understand design. It looks at pre- and post-Darwinian treatment of this topic within literature and speculative thought since the eighteenth century.

This video course covers Darwin's model for understanding how natural objects and systems can help understand design. It looks at pre- and post-Darwinian treatment of this topic within literature and speculative thought since the eighteenth century.
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    Lec 1 | MIT 21L.448J Darwin and Design, Fall 2010

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    Lecture 1: Darwin and Design
    Instructor: James Paradis
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    Lec 2 | MIT 21L.448J Darwin and Design, Fall 2010

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    Lecture 2: Alice in Wonderland

    Instructor: James Paradis

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    Lec 3 | MIT 21L.448J Darwin and Design, Fall 2010

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    Lecture 3: Genesis, Aristotle, and the emergence of world views

    Instructor: James Paradis

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    Lec 4 | MIT 21L.448J Darwin and Design, Fall 2010

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    Lecture 4: Voltaire and the Accidental World

    Instructor: James Paradis

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    Lec 5 | MIT 21L.448J Darwin and Design, Fall 2010

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    Lecture 5: Hume's Dialogues: Revealed religion vs. empirically-based religion

    Instructor: James Paradis

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    Lec 6 | MIT 21L.448J Darwin and Design, Fall 2010

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    Lecture 6: Philo and the limits of analogy

    Instructor: James Paradis

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    Lec 7 | MIT 21L.448J Darwin and Design, Fall 2010

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    Lecture 7: William Paley and his Legacy

    Instructor: James Paradis

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    Lec 8 | MIT 21L.448J Darwin and Design, Fall 2010

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    Lecture 8: Adam Smith Wealth of Nations (1776): The idea of an Oeconomy

    Instructor: James Paradis

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    Lec 9 | MIT 21L.448J Darwin and Design, Fall 2010

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    Lecture 9: Malthus and the Compound Interest World

    Instructor: James Paradis

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    Lec 10 | MIT 21L.448J Darwin and Design, Fall 2010

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    Lecture 10: Malthus and the Compound Mind

    Instructor: James Paradis

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    Lec 11 | MIT 21L.448J Darwin and Design, Fall 2010

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    Lecture 11: Darwin and the Economy of the Natural World

    Instructor: James Paradis

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    Lec 12 | MIT 21L.448J Darwin and Design, Fall 2010

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    Lecture 12: Natural Selection

    Instructor: James Paradis

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    Lec 13 | MIT 21L.448J Darwin and Design, Fall 2010

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    Lecture 13: Darwinian Synthesis

    Instructor: James Paradis

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    Lec 14 | MIT 21L.448J Darwin and Design, Fall 2010

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    Lecture 14: Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871)‏ and human culture

    Instructor: James Paradis

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    Lec 15 | MIT 21L.448J Darwin and Design, Fall 2010

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    Lecture 15: Naturalism and Utopia: Samuel Butler's Erewhon

    Instructor: James Paradis

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    Lec 16 | MIT 21L.448J Darwin and Design, Fall 2010

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    Lecture 16: Butler and Technological Autonomy

    Instructor: James Paradis

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    Lec 17 | MIT 21L.448J Darwin and Design, Fall 2010

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    Lecture 17: Evolution and Cybernetics

    Instructor: James Paradis

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    Lec 18 | MIT 21L.448J Darwin and Design, Fall 2010

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    Lecture 18: Alan Turing and the Thinking Machine

    Instructor: James Paradis

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    Lec 20 | MIT 21L.448J Darwin and Design, Fall 2010

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    Lecture 20: Dualism and personality in post-evolutionary fiction

    Instructor: James Paradis

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    Lec 21 | MIT 21L.448J Darwin and Design, Fall 2010

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    Lecture 21: T. H. Huxley and the Two States

    Instructor: James Paradis

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    Lec 22 | MIT 21L.448J Darwin and Design, Fall 2010

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    Lecture 22: H.G. Wells' The Time Machine and the final utopia

    Instructor: James Paradis

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