Humans are social animals; social demands, both cooperative and competitive, structure our development, our brain and our mind.
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This course includes
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583 years, 3 months
Units & Quizzes
21
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This course covers social development, social behaviour, social cognition and social neuroscience, in both human and non-human social animals. Topics include altruism, empathy, communication, theory of mind, aggression, power, groups, mating, and morality. Methods include evolutionary biology, neuroscience, cognitive science, social psychology and anthropology.
Course Currilcum
- Darwing and Design Unlimited
- Alice in Wonderland Unlimited
- Genesis, Aristotle, and the Emergence of World Views Unlimited
- Voltaire and the Accidental World Unlimited
- Hume’s Dialogues: Revealed Religion vs. Empirically-Based Religion Unlimited
- Philo and The Limits of Analogy Unlimited
- William Paley and his Legacy Unlimited
- Adam Smith “Wealth of Nations” (1776): The idea of an Oeconomy Unlimited
- Malthus and the Compound Interest World Unlimited
- Malthus and the Compound Mind Unlimited
- Darwin and the Economy of the Natural World Unlimited
- Natural Selection Unlimited
- Darwinian Synthesis Unlimited
- Darwin’s “The Descent of Man” (1871) and Human Culture Unlimited
- Naturalism and Utopia: Samuel Butler’s “Erewhon” Unlimited
- Bulter and Technological Autonomy Unlimited
- Evolution and Cybernetics Unlimited
- Alan Turing and the Thinking Machine Unlimited
- Dualism and Personality in Post-Evolutionary Fiction Unlimited
- T. H. Huxley and the Two States Unlimited
- H. G. Wells “The Time Machine” and The Final Utopia Unlimited