INCO 796: Cosmology and Our View of the World

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Summaries of Spring Semester 2007
in Chronological Order:

  1. Session 1: Introductory Class
    (1/23/2007) No Summary

  2. Session 2: Physical Cosmology
    lead by Eberhard Möbius (1/29/2007)
    Summary #2. By Philip Fernandez

  3. Session 3: Life as We Know it and its Evolution
    lead by Thomas Davis (2/6/2007)
    Summary #3. By Samuel Meehan

  4. Session 4: The Origin of Mind
    lead by Willem DeVries (2/13/2007)
    Summary #4. By Davida Harris

  5. Session 5: Scientific Revolutions or Steps in an Evolution?
    lead by Willie Roda (2/20/2007)
    Summary #5. By Joe Collins

  6. Session 6: The Nature of Time; What is the Center?
    lead by Marcy Elliot & Sam Meehan (2/27/2007)
    Summary #6. By Adam Mirando

  7. Session 7: Anthropic Principle: God or Chance?
    lead by Michael Dunn (3/6/2007)
    Summary #7. By Marcy Elliot

  8. Session 8: Multiple Universes
    lead by Adam Mirando & Erica Westerman (3/20/2007)
    Summary #8. By Melissa Russell

  9.   Session 9: What is Reality: Why is there something rather than nothing?
      lead by Christopher Ives (4/3/2007)
      Summary #9. By Amy Conroy
     
  10. Session 10: Life, more than physics + chemistry?
     lead by Melissa Russell & Philip Fernandez (4/10/2007)
     Summary #10. By Evan Jordan

  11. Session 11: Intelligent Design vs. Evolution - A scientific debate or else?
     lead by Christopher Rothschild & Joe Collins (4/17/2007)
     Summary #11. By Wilhelmina Roda

  12. Session 12: Consciousness and The Self
    lead by Amy Conroy (4/24/2007)
      Summary #12a. By Natalie Magnatta
      Summary #12b. By Christopher Rothschild

  13. Session 13: Life in the Universe: Search for Life/Intelligence beyond Earth
    lead by Davida Harris (5/1/2007)
      Summary #13. By Michael Dunn

  14. Session 14: Our presence matters - or how we are connected to our surroundings
     lead by Natalie Magnatta (5/3/2007)
     Summary #14. By Christopher Ives