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Off the Clock: The Many Faces of Time
  • Level Foundation
  • Duration 5 hours
  • Course by Universidade de São Paulo
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About

“Off the Clock: The Many Faces of Time” presents a transdisciplinary and transnational set of perspectives on time. This MOOC aims to expand the learners' understanding of the many facets of time, from our human experience of the present to plants, animals, bacteria, and even art’s relationship to the passing of time. This course equips learners with multidisciplinary tools for thinking about time in human and more-than-human constituents. To do so, the course asks and answers three key questions. First, course participants will acquire the skills needed to join philosophers and physicists in asking: what is time, and what are its features? Next, joining psychologists, chronobiologists, and philosophers of time, the participants will tackle the question: how do humans and non-humans perceive time? Finally, learners will acquire the skills to think with linguists, anthropologists, and psychologists about the way that humans conceive and value time. Throughout the course, each participant will learn to think across disciplines about time, one of the most fundamental aspects of being itself. About the creation of the MOOC The course was produced by 13 young researchers from different areas and nationalities participating in the 1st Intercontinental Academia (ICA 1) of UBIAS, a network of university-based institutes for advanced study on all continents. ICA 1 was organized by the Institute of Advanced Studies (IEA) at the University of São Paulo and the Institute for Advanced Research (IAR) at Nagoya University. During two intensive meetings in São Paulo (April 2015) and Nagoya (March 2016), the participants had the opportunity to learn from dozens of conferences given by senior researchers in anthropology, philosophy, physics, neurobiology, chronobiology, psychoanalysis, environmental sciences, and other areas, all related to the common theme: Time. The MOOC is the result of this interdisciplinary and intercontinental work. This production has only been possible thanks to the efforts of the first UBIAS coordinating team (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies - FRIAS), the host institutes (IEA and IAR), and their staff. However, what has really shaped the MOOC, apart from the discussions and efforts towards developing a script by all the 13 young researchers, was the commitment and dedication of a smaller group that met once again during one week in March 2017, at the “Clarimundo de Jesus” Research Base of USP's Oceanographic Institute (IO), in Ubatuba, coast of the Brazilian state of São Paulo. Lead by Nikki Moore (Wake Forest University and Rice University, USA) in partnership with Marius Müller (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil), Valtteri Arstila (University of Turku, Finland), Eduardo Almeida (University of São Paulo, Brazil), David Gange (University of Birmingham, UK), and Helder Nakaya (University of São Paulo, Brazil), this group took on the responsibility to edit the final script and act as lecturers. The filming has audiovisual direction of Priscila Lima. On the Coursera platform, the course is coordinated by Eduardo Almeida and Marius Müller. The activities of ICA 1 have promoted the creation of the Olavo Setubal Chair of Art, Culture, and Science, which was officially launched in 2016 as an IEA initiative in partnership with the Itaú Cultural Institute. The Chair is a space for the discussion and promotion of activities related to the world of the arts, with a special focus on cultural management, whose objective is to foster interdisciplinary reflections on academic, artistic, cultural, and social issues of regional and global scope. It has two programs: “Global Networks of Young Researchers” and “Leaders in Art, Culture, and Science”. The first one, which includes the Intercontinental Academia, aims to foster and promote interdisciplinary studies by young researchers, contributing to the formation of new leaders in the university, scientific, and cultural spheres. The second one, held every year, is headed by the Chair holder: an exponent from the artistic, cultural, political, social, economic or academic world. Professors, researchers, students, and national and international personalities participate in the promoted activities. Special attention is paid to public policies for art, culture, and science.

Modules

Section 1 - What is time?

    • 6 Videos
    • 1 Assignment
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  • Lecture 1, Section 1: What is time?

6 Videos

  • Lecture 1: Aspects of time - Introduction
  • Lecture 1, Section 1: What is time? - Part 1
  • Lecture 1, Section 1: What is time? - Part 2
  • Lecture 1, Section 1: What is time? - Part 3
  • Lecture 1, Section 1: What is time? - Part 4
  • Lecture 1, Section 1: What is time? - Summary

Section 2 - How do we perceive time?

    • 5 Videos
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  • Lecture 1, Section 2: How do we perceive time?

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  • Lecture 1, Section 2: How do we perceive time? - Part 1
  • Lecture 1, Section 2: How do we perceive time? - Part 2
  • Lecture 1, Section 2: How do we perceive time? - Part 3
  • Lecture 1, Section 2: How do we perceive time? - Part 4
  • Lecture 1, Section 2: How do we perceive time? - Summary

Section 3 - How do we think about time?

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  • Lecture 1, Section 3: How do we think about time? - Part 1
  • Lecture 1, Section 3: How do we think about time? - Part 2
  • Lecture 1, Section 3: How do we think about time? - Part 3
  • Lecture 1, Section 3: How do we think about time? - Summary

Section 1 - The common sense view

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  • Lecture 2, Section 1: The common sense view

Section 2 - Physics

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  • Lecture 2, Section 2: Physics

Section 3 - Psychological time

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  • Lecture 2, Section 3: Psychological time

Section 4 - Biological and geological perspectives

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  • Lecture 2, Section 4: Biological and geological perspectives

Section 5 - Heidegger

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  • Lecture 2, Section 5: Heidegger

Section 6 - History

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  • Lecture 2, Section 6: History

Quiz: Lecture 2: Is the present special?

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  • Lecture 2: Is the present special?

Section 1 - Introduction to time in humans and non-humans

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  • Lecture 3, Section 1: Introduction to time in humans and non-humans

Section 2 - Time and evolution

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  • Lecture 3, Section 2: Time and evolution

Section 3 - Time and animals

    • 2 Videos
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2 Videos

  • Lecture 3, Section 3: Time and animals - Part 1
  • Lecture 3, Section 3: Time and animals - Part 2

Section 4 - Time in plants and microbes

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  • Lecture 3, Section 4: Time in plants and microbes

Section 5 - Time and objects

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  • Lecture 3, Section 5: Time and objects

Quiz: Lecture 3: Is time different for humans and non-humans?

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  • Quiz: Lecture 3: Is time different for humans and non-humans?

Lecture 4, Section 1: What does it mean to ask how time is valued? Or, why do we assume time can be valued in the first place?

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  • Lecture 4, Section 1: What does it mean to ask how time is valued? Or, why do we assume time can be valued in the first place?

Lecture 4, Section 2: Does time have a universal value?

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  • Lecture 4, Section 2: Does time have a universal value?

Lecture 4, Section 3: Is time running out?

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  • Lecture 4, Section 3: Is time running out?

Lecture 4, Section 4: Can we predict the future?

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  • Lecture 4, Section 4: Can we predict the future?

Quiz: Lecture 4: How do we value time?

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  • Quiz: Lecture 4: How do we value time?

Extra - ICA on Time

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  • ICA on Time - Different Perspectives about One Topic
Eduardo A. B. Almeida
Instructors

Eduardo A. B. Almeida

Marius Nils Müller
Instructors

Marius Nils Müller