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The Nature of Persons — Mind-Body Dualism vs. Physicalism

Shelly Kagan · 41:38

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Inference to the Best Explanation & Arguments for Immaterial Mind

Shelly Kagan · 45:48

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Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology

Robert Sapolsky · 57:14

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Justice: The Moral Side of Murder & Cannibalism

Michael Sandel · 54:56

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This Land Is My Land — John Locke on Natural Rights, Labor & Consent

Michael Sandel · 54:58

Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology

Robert SapolskyMacArthur FellowStanford University

Professor of Biology and Neurology

57:14·2011·undergraduate level
Path step 3: Shows how biological systems resist rigid categorical boundaries.

Masterclass in interdisciplinary science: Sapolsky shows why explaining any human behavior through a single 'bucket' (just genes, just hormones, or just environment) always fails.

Bio & NeuroBehavioral & Evolutionary BiologyNeurobiologyEndocrinologyBehavioral Science

Opening lecture of Stanford BIO 150 arguing against categorical thinking—examining human behavior simultaneously through neurobiology, endocrinology, development, and evolution.

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Robert SapolskyMacArthur Fellow

MacArthur Genius Fellow & Professor of Biology and Neurology, Stanford

John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor at Stanford and MacArthur Fellow studying stress neuroendocrinology, primate behavior, and human behavioral biology.

1 course · 25 lecturesCanon
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