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Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature
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Lecture 1 - Introduction
Tamar Gendler introduces a course connecting philosophy, psychology, behavioural economics and literature through flourishing, morality and political thought.
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Lecture 2 - The Ring of Gyges: Morality and Hypocrisy
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Lecture 3 - Parts of the Soul I
Compares several historical and modern ways of dividing motives or mental processes, including accounts associated with Plato, Hume, Freud and Haidt.
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Lecture 4 - Parts of the Soul II
Introduces sampling bias, dual-process accounts, the Wason task and framing examples before explaining Gendler’s distinction between alief and belief.
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Lecture 5 - The Well-Ordered Soul: Happiness and Harmony
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Lecture 6 - The Disordered Soul: Thémis and PTSD
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Lecture 7 - Flourishing and Attachment
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Lecture 8 - Flourishing and Detachment
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Lecture 9 - Virtue and Habit I
Connects Aristotle’s account of acquiring virtue with habituation and comparisons to conditioning and parenting practices.
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Lecture 10 - Virtue and Habit II
Continues Aristotle’s account of virtue, discusses pleasure and flow, and introduces a situationist challenge to stable character.
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Lecture 11 - Weakness of the Will and Procrastination
Discusses weakness of will, delay of gratification and discounting, then presents several proposed ways of structuring self-regulation.
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Lecture 12 - Utilitarianism and its Critiques
Introduces moral theories and examines Mill’s utilitarianism through a dilemma about aggregate happiness and individual suffering.
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Lecture 13 - Deontology
Contrasts a criticism of utilitarianism with an introduction to Kant’s account of moral duty and the agent’s will.
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Lecture 14 - The Trolley Problem
Continues the categorical imperative and introduces the trolley problem through Foot’s and Thomson’s proposed responses.
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Lecture 15 - Empirically-informed Responses
Compares three non-classic responses to the trolley problem that use different methods to examine apparently conflicting judgements.
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Lecture 16 - Philosophical Puzzles
Discusses heuristics in risk regulation and then introduces puzzles about shielding, ducking and moral luck.
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Lecture 17 - Punishment I
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Lecture 18 - Punishment II
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Lecture 19 - Contract & Commonwealth: Thomas Hobbes
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Lecture 20 - The Prisoner's Dilemma
Examines the prisoners’ dilemma and the commons as cases where individually attractive choices can produce a collectively worse result.
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Lecture 21 - Equality
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Lecture 23 - Social Structures
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Lecture 24 - Censorship
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Lecture 25 - Tying up Loose Ends
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Lecture 26 - Concluding Lecture
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