Redefining Reality: The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
Get a grip on reality in 36 enthralling lectures about the changing view of what's real-in space, in matter, in society, and in your brain.
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Metaphysics and the Nature of Science
- 02: Defining Reality
- 03: Mathematics in Crisis
- 04: Special Relativity
- 05: General Relativity
- 06: Big Bang Cosmology
- 07: The Reality of Atoms
- 08: Quantum Mechanics
- 09: Quantum Field Theory
- 10: Chaos Theory
- 11: Dark Matter and Dark Energy
- 12: Grand Unified Theories
- 13: Quantum Consciousness
- 14: Defining Reality in the Life Sciences
- 15: Genes and Identity
- 16: The Birth of Psychology
- 17: Jung and the Behaviorists
- 18: The Rediscovery of the Mind
- 19: The Caring Brain
- 20: Brain and Self
- 21: Evolutionary Psychology
- 22: The Birth of Sociology
- 23: Competition and Cooperation
- 24: Race and Reality
- 25: Social Progress
- 26: The Reality of Money
- 27: The Origin of Life
- 28: Exoplanets and Extraterrestrial Life
- 29: Technology and Death
- 30: Cloning and Identity
- 31: Genetic Engineering
- 32: Medically Enhanced Humans
- 33: Transhumans: Making Living Gods
- 34: Artificial Intelligence
- 35: The Internet and Virtual Reality
- 36: Data Analytics
Taught by
Steven Gimbel
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