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Neural Basis of Imagination, Free Will, and Morality (Coursera)

Apr 22nd 2024
Neural Basis of Imagination, Free Will, and Morality (Coursera)
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This course deals with the neural basis of imagination, free will, and morality. In module one of the course, you will explore the evidence of imagination derived from artifacts. This module examines the brain changes that caused the innovativeness of human imagination. The relation between the first and the [...]
Apr 22nd 2024
Course Auditing
45.00 EUR/month

In Search for the Origins of Korean Philosophy (Coursera)

Apr 22nd 2024
In Search for the Origins of Korean Philosophy (Coursera)
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This course will give you an insight into the formative years of “Korean” culture and thought and uncover together who were the earliest people we could describe as being “Korean.” Korea is unique, but not of a single origin. Through this course, you will rediscover “Korea” today as a [...]

Question Reality: Mind (Coursera)

Apr 22nd 2024
Question Reality: Mind (Coursera)
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This course explores questions about mathematics, nature, and perfection. You will learn about logic, computers, simulations, and different perspectives on the nature of human consciousness. You will also be able to determine what free will means to you and your reality. Next, you will learn the features of artificial [...]
Apr 22nd 2024
Course Auditing
39.00 EUR/month

Old Norse Mythology in the Sources (Coursera)

Apr 22nd 2024
Old Norse Mythology in the Sources (Coursera)
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This course is an introduction to the religion of the Vikings as it is recorded in Old Norse and Scandinavian literature from the medieval period. You will learn about the different written sources and what they can teach us about pre-Christian religion in northern Europe in the Viking Age. [...]

Niños y Adolescentes en la cultura audiovisual y digital (Coursera)

Le damos la más cordial bienvenida al MOOC “Niños y Adolescentes en la cultura audiovisual y digital”, desarrollado por la Facultad de Comunicaciones de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Este curso está enfocado en mostrar el rol que tienen los medios de comunicación y las tecnologías frente a los [...]

Philosophy of Science (Coursera)

For the last four centuries, scientists have aimed to provide us with an understanding of the world around us. By all appearances, science has made substantial progress during this time. But is this progress real or illusory? And if it is real, how has this progress been made? This [...]

Intellectual Change in Early China: Warring States and Han (Coursera)

This sequence of four courses will propose a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of Chinese cultural history conceived of as a succession of modes of rationality (philosophical, bureaucratic, and economic). The focus will be on the moments of paradigm shift from one mode of rationality to another. For each [...]

Religious Transformation in Early China: the Period of Division (Coursera)

This sequence of four courses will propose a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of Chinese cultural history conceived of as a succession of modes of rationality (philosophical, bureaucratic, and economic). The focus will be on the moments of paradigm shift from one mode of rationality to another. For each [...]

Organising an Empire: The Assyrian Way (Coursera)

Discover the mighty kingdom of Assyria, which came to be the world’s first great empire three thousand years ago. From the 9th to the 7th centuries BC, during the imperial phase of Assyria’s long history, modern day northern Iraq was the central region of a state reaching from the [...]

Russian History: from Lenin to Putin (Coursera)

In this course, Peter Kenez, Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Cruz, explains the events of modern Russian history and introduces its most significant actors—from Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin.