Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Questioning Reality: Science, Philosophy, and the Search for Meaning – Courses from Google and Dartmouth College

Exploring philosophy and science through generations, uncovering the influences and developments that led to modern thinking.

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קורס אונליין - התמחות מקצועית מוסמכת במציאות השאלה: מדע

Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Communication skills
  • Time management
  • Critical thinking
  • Teamwork
  • Problem-solving abilities
  • Creative thinking
  • Organizational skills
  • project management
  • Leadership skills
  • Technological knowledge

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • philosopher
  • Physicist
  • Scientific researcher
  • Physics teacher
  • Philosophy teacher
  • Researcher in the field of consciousness
  • Scientific advisor
  • Scientific writer
  • Lecturer at the academy
  • Educational content developer

Internship – 3-part course series

Key questions

  • How much can we know about the physical world?
  • Can we know everything?
  • Or are there fundamental limits to how much we can explain?

The limits of knowledge

If there are limits, to what extent can we explain the nature of physical reality? RealityX explores the limits of knowledge and what we can and cannot know about the world and ourselves.

The development of ideas

We will follow the development of ideas about the nature of reality in philosophy and natural science over the years:

  • Let’s start with the philosophers of ancient Greece.
  • We will move on to advanced theories about the universe.
  • Quantum physics
  • The essence of consciousness

Join the experts

Join renowned physicist Marcelo Glazer and leading experts as we explore how philosophers and physicists, from Pluto to Einstein and many others, have attempted to explain the nature of the world and reality.

Hands-on Learning Project

Learners are invited to consider the ideas and evidence presented in lessons and readings through:

  • Course discussions
  • Personal writing guidelines

Additionally, learners are asked to discuss their learning journey with friends or family members to reflect and summarize learning.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Reality Question: Cosmos

  • Course 1 • 13 hours • 4.9 (21 ratings)

Course Details

What will you learn?

  • This course explores the concept of reality and the physics of the sky.
  • You will travel through the philosophies and worldviews of early civilizations to the time of early scientists such as Plato, Aristotle, and Copernicus.
  • You will learn how Galileo’s findings using the telescope challenged the Aristotelian interpretation of the cosmos.
  • You will learn about Galileo’s revolutionary conclusions about gravity.
  • Get to know Newton’s universal law of gravity.
  • This course will also expose you to scientific methods and their limitations.
  • You will also explore the properties and behaviors of household pendulums.
  • Next, you will explore modern ideas about cosmology.
  • You will learn about the Big Bang Theory.
  • You will hear current speculation that our universe is not all there is.
  • The mysteries and properties of light are also discussed and how they were discovered, doubted, and confirmed through experiments over the past decades to the present day.

Reality Question: Material

  • Course 2 • 7 hours

Course Details

What will you learn?

  • In this course, you will go through a timeline of the “atom” from the Greeks to discoveries in the 20th century.
  • You will learn how our understanding of matter and atoms has influenced our perception of reality.
  • You will be exposed to current understandings of matter and subatomic particles.
  • Visit the Large Hadron Collider at CERN!
  • Finally, you will explore the interpretation of quantum mechanics for reality.
  • Compare the quantum and classical limits.
  • This course also addresses questions such as: Where do you draw the line between the quantum and classical worlds?
  • What do we mean by “in my opinion” and “unknown”?

Reality Question: Concept

  • Course 3 • 6 hours

Course Details

What will you learn?

  • This course explores questions about mathematics, nature, and perfection.
  • You will learn about logic, computers, simulations, and different angles on the nature of human consciousness.
  • You can also determine what free will means to you and your reality.
  • Next, you will learn about features of artificial intelligence.
  • Understand whether the complexity of a brain can be imitated by a machine.

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