Natural selection; Alfred Wallace; The struggle for existence; Web of complex relations; Speciation; Divergence

Lecture 12: Natural Selection

Darwinian Synthesis; Unity of Type and Conditions of Existence; Instinct and Behavior; Ants - Swarm Behavior; Bees - Complex Nonteleological Construction; Geological Succession; Embryology; Ontogeny; Phylogeny

Lecture 13: Darwinian Synthesis

This lecture covers Darwin and the economy of the natural world, Gall, Galvani, overproduction, imperfect adaptation, Lyell, geologic time, faunal succession, fossils, science in the 19th Century, variation and selection.

Lecture 11: Darwin and the Economy of the Natural World

This lecture covers Malthus and the Compound Mind, collective irrationality and the French Revolution and Darwin's voyage 1831-36.

Lecture 10: Malthus and the Compound Mind

This lecture covers Malthus and the Compound Interest World, worldometer, Condorcet, human mind, fixed laws of nature, population growth, instinct versus reason, struggle for existence, Malthus's theory of growth, variable rate compounding.

Lecture 9: Malthus and the Compound Interest World

This lecture covers Adam Smith Wealth of Nations (1776), The idea of an Oeconomy, The division of labor, Specialization, Autonomy versus Intentionality, Self-Interest, Rise of towns.

Lecture 8: Adam Smith Wealth of Nations (1776): The idea of an Oeconomy

William Paley

This lecture covers William Paley, Natural theology, Intelligent design, Argument, Naturalization of the body, Anatomy in the history of art and medicine, William Harvey, Gray's anatomy, Cuvierian comparative anatomy, Great chain of Being.

Lecture 7: William Paley and his Legacy

This lecture covers Philo and the limits of analogy, self-organized matter, unnecessary complexity, the vegetative universe, parsimony in the natural world, the oeconomy of a world: four circumstances of evil, circumstances.

Lecture 6: Philo and the limits of analogy

This lecture covers Hume's Dialogues (1752/1779) - natural vs. revealed religion and the three discussants - Demea, Cleanthes, Philo.

Lecture 5: Hume's Dialogues: Revealed religion vs. empirically-based religion

This lecture covers Voltaire and the Accidental World, Candide, Optimism, Conflict, War, Lisbon Earthquake, New World, Eldorado.

Lecture 4: Voltaire and the Accidental World

This lecture covers Genesis, Aristotle, and the emergence of world views, the Aristotelian concept of nature, The Four Aristotelian Causes.

Lecture 3: Genesis, Aristotle, and the emergence of world views

This lecture covers Alice in  Wonderland, Lewis Carroll's non-Newtonian World of Nonsense, Alice Liddell, Rules, Identity, Metamorphosis in Alice in Wonderland, A Mad Tea Party.

Lecture 2: Alice in Wonderland

This lectures covers Darwin, the concept of design, Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey, the romantic image of nature, the persistence of time, memory and Frost.

Lecture 1: Darwin and Design

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