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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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In the Origin of Species (1859), Charles Darwin gave us a model for understanding how natural objects and systems can evidence design without positing a designer: how purpose and mechanism can exist without intelligent agency. Texts in this course deal with pre- and post-Darwinian treatment of this topic within literature and speculative th
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- literature
- origin of species
- darwin
- intelligent agency
- literature
- speculative thought
- eighteenth century
- feedback mechanism
- artificial intelligence
- hume
- voltaire
- malthus
- butler
- hardy
- h.g. wells
- freud
- evolution
- modern western philosophy
- philosophy of science
- religion
- science
- life sciences
- philosophy & social aspects
- history
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Description:This subject offers a broad survey of texts (both literary and philosophical) drawn from the Western tradition and selected to trace the immediate intellectual antecedents and some of the implications of the ideas animating Darwin's revolutionary On the Origin of Species. Darwin's text, of course, is about the mechanism that drives the evol
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