| Language Note: |
In English.
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| Record ID: |
3325525 |
| Format: |
DVD |
| Physical description: |
6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 272 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.) |
| Date acquired: |
January 4, 2021
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| More creator details: |
Professor Steven Gimbel. |
| Series statement: |
Great courses. Philosophy & intellectual history. Modern philosophy |
| Series title: |
Great courses (DVD). Philosophy & intellectual history. |
| General note: |
"Course no. 4140." |
| General note: |
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired. |
| General note: |
Contains 36 lectures; each lecture is approximately 30 minutes. |
| General note: |
Lecture notes and program information contained in course guidebook. |
| General note: |
Title from disc label. |
| Contents note: |
Disc 1. Metaphysics and the nature of science -- Defining reality -- Mathematics in crisis -- Special relativity -- General relativity -- Big bang cosmology -- Disc 2. 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 -- Birth of psychology -- Jung and the behaviorists -- Rediscovery of the mind -- Disc 4. Caring brain -- Brain and self -- Evolutionary psychology -- Birth of sociology -- Competition and cooperation -- Race and reality -- Disc 5. Social progress -- Reality of money -- 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 -- Internet and virtual reality -- Data analytics. |
| Credits: |
Teaching Company, production company. |
| Performers: |
Lecturer: Professor Steven Gimbel, Gettysburg College. |
