Description
The Power of Thought Experiments, the Power of Thought Experiments training course is published by The Great Courses Academy. Have you ever wondered what it means to be immortal? Or how do you act in life and death situations? Or what if you could go back in time? If you have ever thought about such questions, you are familiar with the world of thought experiments. Thought experiments are “what if” scenarios – hypothetical situations that invite us to look carefully at how we think and see the world. In The Power of Thought Experiments, award-winning philosopher Daniel Breyer of Illinois State University takes you across 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 challenges the way you think and asks you to consider thought experiments that range from the mundane to the fantastical, not just for fun. but always with a diagnostic eye for why great thinkers consider them and what insights they represent. Professor Brier’s engaging teaching style, eye-catching perspectives and incredibly detailed knowledge of the field have made multifaceted lectures on a remarkable area of human thought. In 24 fascinating lectures, you will meet ancient thinkers such as Aristotle, Avicenna, and Zhuangzi, as well as modern thinkers such as Galileo, Hobbes, and Leibniz. In these lectures, an amazing range of contemporary philosophers and scientists come together, taking a broad look at intellectual experiences throughout the ages.
What you will learn
- ethics fundamental. You are faced with the choice of whether you can save a drowning child or not. In this setting and others that involve the power of the individual to prevent bad things from happening, learn how thought experiments have examined our moral concepts. Work on problems that look at our moral obligations to others and the limits of those obligations, and consider situations that challenge our sense of what is right and wrong and what we should or shouldn’t do.
- Identity boundaries. Over the course of three lectures, understand how thought experiments open an invaluable window into our notions of personal identity and self-knowledge. Through narratives in which you undergo a brain transplant, teleportation, and sensory deprivation, answer questions about what defines the “you” you know yourself to be. Is identity necessarily related to the body? Where does “self” begin and where does it end?
Course specifications The Power of Thought Experiments
- Publisher: The Great Courses
- teacher : Daniel Breyer
- English language
- Education level: all levels
- Number of courses: 24
- Training duration: 11 hours and 54 minutes
Chapters of The Power of Thought Experiments course
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