The Great Courses – The Power of Thought Experiments 2023-6 – Download

Description

the power of thought experiments, passed You Sometimes Wondered what it means to be immortal? Or how would you act in a life-or-death situation? Or what if you could travel back in time? If You’If you’ve ever thought about questions like these, you’re already familiar with the world of thought experiments. Thought experiments are “what if” scenarios – hypothetical situations that invite us to rigorously consider how we think and view the world. In The Power of Thought Experiments, award-winning philosopher Daniel Breuer of Illinois State University takes you around the world and across intellectual traditions to explore the power of thought experiments—from ancient Greece and China to contemporary science and philosophy.

This course invites you on a diverse intellectual journey that will challenge the way you think and ask you to consider thought experiments ranging from the mundane to the fantastic, not just for fun, but always with a focus on why great thinkers considered them and what insights they reveal. Professor Breuer’s engaging teaching style, eye-opening approach, and astonishingly detailed knowledge of the field make the lectures a multifaceted immersion into a remarkable area of human thought. In Across 24 spellbinding lectures, you’ll match the wisdom of ancient thinkers such as Aristotle, Ibn Sina and Zhuangzi, as well as modern thinkers such as Galileo, Hobbes and Leibniz, to an astonishing range of contemporary philosophers and scientists. Far-reaching insights into thought experiments through the ages.

What you will learn

Parameters Of Policy. You are faced with the choice of whether or not to save a drowning child. In this and other settings involving an individual’s power to prevent something bad from happening, learn how thought experiments have examined our assumptions about morality and ethics. Work on problems that look at what our moral obligations are to others and the limits of those obligations, and consider situations that challenge our understanding of what is right and what is wrong and what we should or should not do.

boundaries Of Identification, In three lectures, understand how thought experiments provide a valuable window into our conceptions of personal identity and selfhood. Through narratives where you undergo brain implants, teletransportation, and sensory deprivation, consider questions about what defines or delimits the “you” you know yourself to be. Is identity necessarily related to the body? Where does the self begin and end?