21L.448 / 21W.739J Darwin and Design, Fall 2002

21L.448 / 21W.739J Darwin and Design, Fall 2002

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In the Origin of Species, 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 w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Paradis, James
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Literature Section
Format: Learning Object
Language:en-US
Published: 2010
Subjects:
Origin of Species
Darwin
intelligent agency
literature
speculative thought
eighteenth century
feedback mechanism
artificial intelligence
Hume
Voltaire
Malthus
Butler
Hardy
H.G. Wells
Freud
21L.448
21W.739J
21W.739
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
230101
English Language and Literature, General
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58742

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