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Topics

• The Big Questions
• Ancient world-views
• Classical world-views
• Pre-renaissance world-view
• Appeal to nature - the reign of law
• Order in nature - the rule of reason
• The Darwinian world-view
• Science and human nature
• The new physics
• Our dynamic Universe
• The idea of progress
• The idea of emergence
• The influence of neuroscience
• Building a personal world-view

Subtopics — Appeal to nature - the reign of law

• The universe according to Copernicus

The roles of observation and mathematics

• Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler

• Galileo and Rene Descartes

Philosophical Reactions

• Giordano Bruno and Baruch Spinoza