How does the world work? The cosmos? And how much can we know? These courses – designed from the perspective of the humanities, rather than that of the hard sciences – will take up those questions in creative and challenging ways. In a period plagued by science denial, you’ll find some solid ground in these inquiries. (What follows is a listing of sample future lectures.)

• The Scientific Revolution 

• Quantum Mechanics and Relativity Theory: Reconciliation? 

• Theories, Facts, and Faith: the Roots of Science Denial

• What Darwin Never Knew

• At the Edge or Order: Chaos and Complexity

• The Tao of Physics Revisited

• The Rise of the Humans 

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