Trail · 4 stops

Four ideas that changed how we see ourselves

What is wisdom? How does the universe work? Where did we come from? How does the mind work? Four stops across philosophy, history, biology and psychology.

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   Philosophy

   The 'love of wisdom': careful thinking about reality, knowledge, right and wrong, beauty and society, built on arguments rather than authority.

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   Scientific Revolution

   The 16th–17th century shift to an orderly, rational universe: Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Newton, and the scholars across cultures they built on.

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   Evolution

   How populations of living things change over generations, how natural selection works, and the evidence, from fossils to DNA, that links all life.

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   Psychology

   The scientific study of the mind and behavior: how we think, feel, learn and act, and how the field grew out of philosophy into a science.