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    A Visual Guide to the Universe (Transcript)
    A Visual Guide to the Universe (Transcript)
    A Visual Guide to the Universe (Transcript)
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    A Visual Guide to the Universe (Transcript)

    By David M. Meyer

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    A Visual Guide to the Universe is the companion book to the audio/video series of the same name. It contains a full transcript of the series as well as the complete course guidebook which includes lecture notes, bibliography, and more.

    About this series:

    The quest to understand the mind has motivated some of history's most profound thinkers. But only in our own time are we beginning to see the true complexity of this quest, as today's philosophers draw on the latest evidence from neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, and other fields to probe deeply into the inner workings of the mind. These 24 stimulating lectures from an award-winning teacher and honored scholar present a clear, systematic, and compelling introduction to the philosophy of mind, exploring all of the major theories, including: Dualism, which holds that body and mind are separate substances; Behaviorism and Functionalism, which stress behavior and interactions with the world as clues to the mind's inner workings;. Idealism, the view that the physical world is an illusion and that only the mental realm exists; and the "antitheories" of mind, which posit that subjective mental experiences are fundamentally inexplicable and will always remain a mystery. Examining the most intriguing questions and influential theories in what can often be a complex and often controversial intellectual terrain, Professor Grim sorts out the different approaches to give you the pros and cons of each.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Great Courses
    Release dateOct 24, 2014
    ISBN9781598038941
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    • 5/5
      I was tolerably familiar with much of the subject matter, but the presentation was excellent. I would happily listen to it again. (She exploded "laser" into its constituent words incorrectly, and made a few other errors that I can't remember anymore. But these are minor problems.) I enjoyed her discussion of spoken versus written English and promptly noticed "gonna" appearing in some dialogue in a novel I was reading. I would never have noticed it otherwise. The speaker in the novel is an American, although the period is during WWI. Is "gonna" really that old, or was the writer indulging in an anachronism for effect? Guess I will have to listen to those lectures again!
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      Curzan is one of the smoothest Teaching Company presenters I have encountered. She is fascinated with her subject and she guides on a wide-ranging survey of the English language, where it came from, how it has evolved, and how it is still changing. The last part will be problematic for some ultra-conservative language purists, but as Curzan shows, the language has constantly changed, and what we consider horrific today will be commonplace tomorrow. She gives examples of words Ben Franklin hated, for instance, that are now a standard part of our language. I listened in my car, so I can't say what visual elements the course has, but the purely auditory experience never left me feeling that I was missing anything.

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