DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Redefining reality : the intellectual implications of modern science / Professor Steven Gimbel.

Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Company, [2015]

©2015.

6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 272 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)

4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video

Great courses. Philosophy & intellectual history (Modern philosophy)

Great courses (DVD). Philosophy & intellectual history.

Science -- Philosophy.

Filmed lectures.

Nonfiction films.

Educational films.

Gimbel, Steven, 1968-

Teaching Company, production company.

Course no. 4140.

Program contains thirty-six lectures; the length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min.

Lecture notes and program information contained in course guidebook.

Includes bibliographical references in course guidebook.

Lecturer: Professor Steven Gimbel, Gettysburg College.

DVD.

In English.

Title from disc surface.

Disc 1. 1. Metaphysics and the nature of science; 2. Defining reality; 3. Mathematics in crisis; 4. Special relativity; 5. General relativity; 6. Big bang cosmology. -- Disc 2. 7. The reality of atoms; 8. Quantum mechanics; 9. Quantum field theory; 10. Chaos theory; 11. Dark matter and dark energy; 12. Grand unified theories. -- Disc 3. 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. -- Disc 4. 19. The caring brain; 20. Brain and self; 21. Evolutionary psychology; 22. The birth of sociology; 23. Competition and cooperation; 24. Race and reality. -- Disc 5. 25. Social progress; 26. The reality of money; 27. The origin of life; 28. Exoplanets and extraterrestrial life; 28. Technology and death; 29. Cloning and identity. -- Disc 6. 31. Genetic engineering; 32. Medically enhanced humans; 33. Transhumans: making living gods; 34. Artificial intelligence; 35. The internet and virtual reality; 36. Data analytics.

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