Course no. 4691; Philosophy & intellectual history. 12 lectures (30 minutes per lecture) Course guidebook includes lecture notes, timeline, and bibliography. Professor Lawrence M. Principe, Professor of the History of Science and Technology, and of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University.
Contents:
Disc 1: Lecture 1. Science and religion -- Lecture 2. The warfare thesis -- Lecture 3. Faith and reason: Scripture and nature -- Lecture 4. God and nature: Miracles and demons -- Lecture 5. Church, Copernicus, and Galileo -- Lecture 6. Galileo's trial. Disc 2: Lecture 7. God the watchmaker -- Lecture 8. Natural theology and arguments from design -- Lecture 9. Geology, cosmology, and Biblical chronology -- Lecture 10. Darwin and responses to evolution -- Lecture 11. Fundamentalism and creationism -- Lecture 12. Past, present, and future.
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