April 23, 2007

Richard Dawkins

For those of you not familiar with Richard Dawkins, here is an interesting lecture he gave about two years ago. Not much specifically related to what we are doing this semester (except perhaps in relation to Hume and Berkeley's epistemology). He is currently receiving a lot of media attention for his latest book, The God Delusion, but his more substantial work has been in evolutionary biology.



Here is the link to the article that we'll start covering this week (after Dawkins) and will continue next week. I'm trying to upload an audio lecture recently given by Leda Cosmides, which I'll post tomorrow. It should help you give you a clearer idea of the implications of the findings of evolutionary psychology and the question of consciousness.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'ts always nice to hear someone with a flat out point of view.