Redefining Reality : the Intellectual Implications of Modern Science
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"Course Number 4140."
Metaphysics and the nature of science -- Defining reality -- Mathematics in crisis -- Special relativity -- General relativity -- Big bang cosmology -- The reality of atoms -- Quantum mechanics -- Quantum field theory -- Chaos theory -- Dark matter and dark energy -- Grand unified theories. -- Quantum consciousness -- Defining reality in the life sciences -- Genes and identity -- The birth of psychology -- Jung and the behaviorists -- The rediscovery of the mind -- The caring brain -- Brain and self -- Evolutionary psychology -- The birth of sociology -- Competition and cooperation -- Race and reality -- Social progress -- The reality of money -- The origin of life -- Exoplanets and extraterrestrial life -- Technology and death -- Cloning and identity -- Genetic engineering -- Medically enhanced humans -- Transhumans: making living gods -- Artificial intelligence -- The internet and virtual reality -- Data analytics.
Lecturer, Professor Steven Gimbel, Gettysbury College.
"Explore the philosophical implications of what modern science has discovered about our universe-- from the big bang, to the future of humanity"--Original container insert.
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Great courses. Philosophy & intellectual history.
PUBLISHED
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2015]
Year Published: 2015
Description: 18 audio discs (18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (19 cm.)
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1629971308
9781629971308
SUBJECTS
Metaphysics.
Philosophy, Modern.
Science -- Philosophy.
Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
Social change -- History.
Physics -- Philosophy.
Astronomy -- Philosophy.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Thought and thinking.
Universe.