Redefining reality The intellectual implications of modern science

DVD - 2015

Explores the philosophical implications of what modern science has discovered about our universe.

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Subjects: Science > Philosophy.
Published: [Chantilly, VA] : Teaching Company [2015]
Language: English
Corporate Author: Teaching Company
Corporate Author: Teaching Company (production company)
Other Authors: Steven Gimbel, 1968- (-)
Edition: [PDF workbook version]
Item Description: "The Great courses, Topic: Philosophy & intellectual history ; Subtopic: Modern philosophy"--Cover.
"Course number 4140"--Disc labels.
36 lectures lasting 30 minutes each.
Accompanying CD-ROM contains course workbook in PDF format.
Physical Description: 6 videodiscs (approximately 1,080 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. 1 computer disc (4 3/4 in.)
Format: DVD; PDF requires Adobe Reader or PDF reader.
ISBN: 9781501910395

Disc 1. Metaphysics and the nature of science; Defining reality; Mathematics in crisis; Special relativity; General relativity; Big bang cosmology
Disc 2. The reality of atoms; Quantum mechanics; Quantum field theory; Chaos theory; Dark matter and dark energy; Grand unified theories
Disc 3. Quantum consciousness; Defining reality in the life sciences; Genes and identity; The birth of psychology; Jung and the behaviorists; The rediscovery of the mind
Disc 4. The caring brain; Brain and self; Evolutionary psychology; The birth of sociology; Competition and cooperation; Race and reality
Disc 5. Social progress; The reality of money; The origin of life; Exoplanets and extraterrestrial life; Technology and death; Cloning and identity
Disc 6. Genetic engineering; Medically enhanced humans; Transhumans: making living gods; Artificial intelligence; The internet and virtual reality; Data analytics.