Recordings from a series of lectures by Professor Michael Billig (2012) from the 'Historical and Conceptual Issues' module, taught at Loughborough University. The module formed part of the degree of Social Psychology BSc.
00:00 Lecture 9: Hobbes, Locke, & Shaftesbury: On humour
(Underlying motive, Passions of the Mind, Superiority Theory of Laughter, cognitive approach, wit and judgement, metaphor, atomism, social function of humour, political freedom, mockery, theory of knowledge)
51:52 Lecture 10: Charles Darwin (Pt.1) (1809-1882)
(Emotion and physiology, Jean-Paul Marat, French Revolution, Charlotte Corday, synthesis, idea and mechanism of evolution, natural history, Galapagos Islands, common ancestry, Origin of Species, natural selection, sexual selection, evolution)
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