James Paradis - Writing and Humanistic Studies, Center for Future Civic Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT

James Paradis

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Robert M. Metcalfe Professor of Writing, Program Head, Writing and Humanistic Studies, MIT

James Paradis is a noted scholar of literary and cultural perspectives on scientific rhetoric in the 19th century. His main fields of interest are Victorian Cultural Studies and Science and Technical Communication. This critical scholarship is highlighted by his books T.H. Huxley: Man’s Place in Nature (1978), and Samuel Butler: Victorian against the Grain – A Critical Overview (2007).

Paradis has also made significant contributions to the field of technical writing and communication. Together with Muriel Zimmerman he co-authored The MIT Guide to Science and Engineering Communication (1997) in order to strengthen the communication skills of MIT undergraduates.

Lectures:

[syn] 4724 views, 1:14:25	debate Media in Transition 6: Summary Perspectives as moderator at MIT World Series: Media in Transition 6: Stone and Papyrus, Storage and Transmission, together with: Mary Bryson, Marlene Manoff, John Durham Peters, Thomas Pettitt, 4724 views	[syn] 3122 views, 53:06	lecture Lecture 1: Darwin and Design as author at Darwin and Design, 3122 views
[syn] 2853 views, 56:21	lecture Lecture 2: Alice in Wonderland as author at Darwin and Design, 2853 views	[syn] 2831 views, 59:07	lecture Lecture 3: Genesis, Aristotle, and the Emergence of World Views as author at Darwin and Design, 2831 views
[syn] 2567 views, 54:06	lecture Lecture 17: Evolution and Cybernetics as author at Darwin and Design, 2567 views	[syn] 2559 views, 49:34	lecture Lecture 4: Voltaire and the Accidental World as author at Darwin and Design, 2559 views
[syn] 2501 views, 56:02	lecture Lecture 8: Adam Smith "Wealth of Nations" (1776): The Idea of an Oeconomy as author at Darwin and Design, 2501 views	[syn] 2404 views, 52:04	lecture Lecture 15: Naturalism and Utopia: Samuel Butler's "Erewhon" as author at Darwin and Design, 2404 views
[syn] 2372 views, 1:02:06	lecture Lecture 5: Hume's Dialogues: Revealed Religion vs. Empirically-Based Religion as author at Darwin and Design, 2372 views	[syn] 2289 views, 49:43	lecture Lecture 14: Darwin's "The Descent of Man" (1871)‏ and Human Culture as author at Darwin and Design, 2289 views
[syn] 2232 views, 54:05	lecture Lecture 11: Darwin and the Economy of the Natural World as author at Darwin and Design, 2232 views	[syn] 2190 views, 56:58	lecture Lecture 18: Alan Turing and the Thinking Machine as author at Darwin and Design, 2190 views
[syn] 2187 views, 52:30	lecture Lecture 13: Darwinian Synthesis as author at Darwin and Design, 2187 views	[syn] 2186 views, 56:24	lecture Lecture 6: Philo and the Limits of Analogy as author at Darwin and Design, 2186 views
[syn] 2175 views, 1:03:35	lecture Lecture 7: William Paley and his Legacy as author at Darwin and Design, 2175 views	[syn] 2123 views, 46:16	lecture Lecture 10: Malthus and the Compound Mind as author at Darwin and Design, 2123 views
[syn] 2095 views, 55:15	lecture Lecture 20: Dualism and Personality in Post-Evolutionary Fiction as author at Darwin and Design, 2095 views	[syn] 2042 views, 54:31	lecture Lecture 12: Natural Selection as author at Darwin and Design, 2042 views
[syn] 2042 views, 58:08	lecture Lecture 9: Malthus and the Compound Interest World as author at Darwin and Design, 2042 views	[syn] 2039 views, 52:20	lecture Lecture 21: T. H. Huxley and the Two States as author at Darwin and Design, 2039 views
[syn] 2026 views, 59:17	lecture Lecture 22: H. G. Wells "The Time Machine" and The Final Utopia as author at Darwin and Design, 2026 views	[syn] 1831 views, 51:18	lecture Lecture 16: Butler and Technological Autonomy as author at Darwin and Design, 1831 views