New College of the Humanities
See Daniel C Dennett below giving a lecture entitled: ‘How did the humanities evolve?’
This is the first of four lectures given by Professor Dennett during the Hilary term 2012 as part of the College’s broader liberal arts curriculum.
He discusses the relevance and importance of scientific understanding in an humanities-based education, and works to encourage a move away from seeing the Arts and Sciences as discontinuous disciplines.
How did Homo sapiens evolve to be so different from other animals? How did humans come up with new technological innovations such as speaking, writing and drawing? Daniel C. Dennett addresses these questions amongst many others in this fascinating lecture.
Notions of comprehension, acquisition, intelligent design and reasoning are all brought into play here. Better still – Professor Dennett delivers his lecture in relation to parallels found in the lives of ‘apps’ and cuckoos!
New College of the Humanities (NCH) offers a new model of higher education for the humanities in the UK. NCH students enjoy one of the best staff-to-student ratios in UK higher education and benefit from a high number of quality contact hours including engaging and challenging one-to-one tutorials. https://www.nchlondon.ac.uk/
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Dennett and his phrases. Intuition Pump, kinda crappy. But Necktop, is funny!
why wouldn't that fucker stop coughing?
0:34:45……a house withoit a builder…a cave 😛
Any way we can get the slides?
any links to the remaining three lectures? thanks
I did humanities also (political science). I understand what the logic of the professor is to start his college sereis in this way. But for those who did not do humanities I think it might be good to point out that this video contains a lot of (evolutionairy) biology, and very little science of the humanities. It lays the foundation and the professor chooses to take biology for that. That is OK, but that is only one way of building up the body of knowledge. There are scores of other ways to do it. Nice college by the way. Worth watching.
wow this guy should have checked on his german….