Video 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