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86 Courses
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Energy Seminar
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The Real Story on Fuel Economy
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New Ways for Regulating Greenhouse Gases
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Sustainable Aviation
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Renewable Ocean Energy Conversion Systems
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Smart Grids & Decarbonizing the Power Sector
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A Pathway for Widespread Geothermal Energy
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Sequestering CO2 in the Built Environment
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Nuclear Sustainability and Climate Change
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Global Coal Market
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Renewable Energy and the Economy
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Killers Apps for the Smart Grid
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Benefits of a Restructured Electric Industry
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Adaptation to Climate Change
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LIFE: Laser Initial Fusion Energy System
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Carbon Sequestration & Natural Gas Extraction
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Entertainment Education for Behavior Change
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Environmental Economics and Policy
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Economics C3 - 1: What is Economics?
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Economics C3 - 2: What is Economics & What is Policy?
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Economics C3 - 3: Supply and Demand
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Economics C3 - 4: Elasticity
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Economics C3 - 5: Governmental Intervention
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Economics C3 - 6: Markets and Welfare
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Economics C3 - 7: Costs
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Economics C3 - 8: Competitive Market
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Economics C3 - 9: Monopoly
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Economics C3 - 11: Externalities
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Economics C3 - 12: Cumulative and Density
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Economics C3 - 14: Revealed Preference Methods
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Economics C3 - 15: Stated Preference Methods
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Economics C3 - 17: Property Rights and Externalities
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Economics C3 - 18: Benefit-Cost Analysis
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Economics C3 - 19: Government Policies for Environmental Protection
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Economics C3 - 20: Depletable Resources
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Economics C3 - 21: Water and Water Pollution
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Economics C3 - 22: Agriculture
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Economics C3 - 23: Forests
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Economics C3 - 24: Fisheries
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Economics C3 - 25: Energy
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Economics C3 - 26: Recyclable Resources
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Economics C3 - 27: Toxic Substances
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Environmental Politics and Law
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Introduction to the Course
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Principles & Strategies in Environmental Law
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Nuclear Experiments
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Nuclear Secrecy and Ecology
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Preparing for War: NEPA
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Marine Food-Chains: Mercury
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Site Restoration Law
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Chemically Dependent Agriculture
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Risk and Law: Pesticide Paradigm
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Safe Drinking Water: Science and Law
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Safety Claims and Free Speech: Preemption and Defamation
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Air Quality Law: Margins of Safety
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Vehicle Emissions and Public Transit
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The Quiet Revolution in Plastics
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The Tobacco Paradigm
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Evolution of Tobacco Law
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Land Use and Conservation Law: The Adirondack History
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Property Rights and Public Lands Management
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Land Use Law and Property Rights
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Managing Coastal Resources in an Era of Climate Change
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Certification: Design and Green Architecture
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Past and Future of Nuclear Power
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Renewable Energy Policies
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Reflection and Lessons
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European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present
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European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present #1
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European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present #2
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European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present #3
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European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present #4
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Revolutions in Religion
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Cultural Diversity in Early Modern Europe
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Witchcraft and Religious War
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English Revolutions, Dutch Revolution
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French and Other Absolutisms
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The Scientific Revolution in Europe
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The Enlightenment: Daring to Know and its Difficulties
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The French Revolution (1789-1792)
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The Industrial Revolution: The origins of a new civilization
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Ideologies of Class, Gender, and History
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Revolution and Reform, 1815-1851
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Science, Medicine and Religion
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Making and Reforming Nation States
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Politics, Culture, and Society at the End of the 19th Century
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European Imperialism at its Zenith
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The Great War: Its Causes, Course, and Consequences
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The Russian Revolution
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The Failure of Politics Between the Wars
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World War Two: Holocaust and Rebuild
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Remaking Europe East and West: Communism and Social Democracy
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The Past in the Present
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European Civilization, 1648-1945
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Introduction to European Civilization
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Absolutism and the State
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Dutch and British Exceptionalism
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Peter the Great
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The Enlightenment and the Public Sphere
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Maximilien Robespierre and the French Revolution
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Napoleon
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Industrial Revolutions
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Middle Classes
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Why No Revolution in 1848 in Britain
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Nineteenth-Century Cities
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Nationalism
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Radicals
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Imperialists and Boy Scouts
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The Coming of the Great War
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War in the Trenches
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Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning (Guest Lecture by Jay Winters)
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The Romanovs and the Russian Revolution
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Successor States of Eastern Europe
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Stalinism
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Fascists
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Collaboration and Resistance in World War II
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The Collapse of Communism and Global Challenges
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Faith and Globalization
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Themes in Faith and Globalization
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Historical Forces in Faith and Globalization
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Stakes and Faith in Globalization: Miroslav Volf
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Stakes and Faith in Globalization: Douglas Rae
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Stakes and Faith in Globalization: Tony Blair
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Promise and Peril of Faith and Globalization
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The Nation-State in Faith and Globalization
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Secularization and Transformation of Faiths
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Faiths as Shapers of Globalization: Jose Casanova
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Faiths as Shapers of Globalization: Douglas Rae
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Reconciliation in the Name of Faith: Miroslav Volf
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Reconciliation in the Name of Faith: Tony Blair
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Values that Shape the Market: Miroslav Volf
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Values that Shape the Market: Douglas Rae
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Corporate Governance
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Faith and Globalization with James Alexander
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Faiths and Poverty Alleviation: Miroslov Volf
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Faiths and Poverty Alleviation: Douglas Rae
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Faiths and Poverty Alleviation: Ambassador Tony Hall
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Faiths and Poverty Alleviation: Tony Blair
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Faiths, Globalization and Gender: Miroslav Volf
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Islam, Globalization and Gender
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Faiths, Globalization and Gender: Muna Abu Sulayman Interview
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France Since 1871
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Introduction to France Since 1871
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The Paris Commune and Its Legacy
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Centralized State and Republic
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A Nation? Peasants, Language, and French Identity
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Workshop and Factory
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The Waning of Religious Authority
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Mass Politics and the Political Challenge from the Left
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Dynamite Club: The Anarchists
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General Boulanger and Captain Dreyfus
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Cafes and the Culture of Drink
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Paris and the Belle Epoque
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French Imperialism
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The Origins of World War I
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Trench Warfare
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The Home Front
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The Great War, Grief, and Memory
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The Popular Front
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The Dark Years: Vichy France
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Resistance
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Battles For and Against Americanization
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Vietnam and Algeria
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Charles De Gaulle
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May 1968
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Immigration
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General Philosophy
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1.1 An Introduction to General Philosophy
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1.2 The Birth of Modern Philosophy
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1.3 From Aristotle to Galileo
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1.4 The Birth of the Early Modern Period: From Galileo to Descartes
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2.1 Recap of General Philosophy
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2.2 Introduction to Thomas Hobbes
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2.3 Robert Boyle's Corpuscularian Theory
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2.4 Isaac Newton and Instrumentalism
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2.5 Introduction to John Locke
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2.6 George Berkeley and Idealism
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3.1 Introduction to David Hume
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3.2 David Hume: Concluding Remarks
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3.3 The Problem of Induction
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4.1 Scepticism of the External World
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4.2 Possible Answers to Scepticism of the External World
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4.3 Introduction to Cartesian Dualism
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4.4 Modern Responses to Dualism
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5.1 Introduction to Knowledge
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5.2 The Traditional Analysis of Knowledge
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5.3 Gettier and Other Complications
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5.4 Skepticism, Externalism and the Ethics of Belief
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6.1 Introduction to Primary and Secondary Qualities
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6.2 Problems with Resemblance
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6.3 Abstraction and Idealism
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6.4 Making Sense of Perception
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7.1 Free Will, Determinism and Choice
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7.2 Different Concepts of Freedom
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7.3 Hume on Liberty and Necessity
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7.4 Making Sense of Free Will and Moral Responsibility
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8.1 Introduction to Personal Identity
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8.2 John Locke on Personal Identity
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8.3 Problems for Locke's View of Personal Identity
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8.4 Persons, Humans and Brains
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Global Population Growth
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Evolution of Sex and Reproductive Strategies
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Sex and Violence Among the Apes
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From Ape to Human
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When Humans Were Scarce
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Why Is Africa Different?
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Malthusian Times
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Demographic Transition in Europe; Mortality Decline
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Demographic Transition in Europe; Fertility Decline
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Demographic Transition in Europe
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Quantitative Aspects
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Low Fertility in Developed Countries (Guest Lecture by Michael Teitelbaum)
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Human and Environmental Impacts
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Fertility Attitudes and Practices
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Demographic Transition in Developing Countries
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Female Disadvantage
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Population in Traditional China
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Population in Modern China
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Economic Impact of Population Growth
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Economic Motivations for Fertility
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Teen Sexuality and Teen Pregnancy
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Global Demography of Abortion
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Media and the Fertility Transition in Developing Countries (Guest Lecture by William Ryerson)
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Biology and History of Abortion
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Population and the Environment
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