• The Gifford Lectures (/ˈɡɪfərd/) are an annual series of lectures which were established in 1887 by the will of Adam Gifford, Lord Gifford at the four...
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    founder of the Gifford Lectures. Gifford was born in Edinburgh on 29 February 1820 to Katherine Ann (née West) (1786–1873) and James Gifford (1780–1862)...
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    original title of the lectures was 'Psychological Religion' but Müller felt compelled to add 'Theosophy' to it. Müller's final Gifford Lecture is significant...
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    Terry Lectures and the University of Edinburgh's 2010 Gifford Lecture entitled The God Debate. He gave the 2010 Richard Price Memorial Lecture at Newington...
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  • Another comparable lecture series is the Gifford Lectures, which are delivered annually at several universities in Scotland. The first lecture series was offered...
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  • Tracy gave the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh. The title of his lectures was This Side of God. The Gifford Lectures are widely considered...
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    was also the first American theologian to deliver the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland in over forty years. His...
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  • Knowledge and the Sacred (category Gifford Lectures books)
    and the first non-Westerner to deliver the Gifford Lectures. He received his invitation to deliver the lectures immediately before the Iranian revolution...
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  • Infinite in All Directions (category Gifford Lectures books)
    theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson. The book is based on the author's Gifford Lectures delivered in Aberdeen in 1985. Infinite in All Directions can roughly...
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    Religion. In 2003 he was awarded a Centenary Medal. He delivered the 2011 Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh published as The Territories of Science...
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    at Wikisource Lewis Campbell biographical notes and Lectures available from the Gifford Lectures website Works by Lewis Campbell at Project Gutenberg...
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    1964–65, Rockefeller Lectures (University of Chicago) in 1966, Kevorkian Lectures (New York University) in 1977, Gifford Lectures (University of Edinburgh)...
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    the 1907–1908 Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow, entitled "Ideals of Religion." He also delivered the 1909 Adamson Lecture of the Victoria...
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    of Christian Philosophers from 1983 to 1986. He has delivered the Gifford Lectures twice and was described by Time magazine as "America's leading orthodox...
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    University of Cambridge. He died within a year of giving the 1986 Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow. In our age, when people look for explanations...
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    major exploration of the Mind. An invitation to deliver the 1973–1974 Gifford Lectures in Aberdeen (the first woman to do so), provided an incentive to gather...
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    Prize, awarded by Prince Philip in Buckingham Palace. He gave the Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh, 1997–1998. He also served on the Advisory...
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    acquired a following. He was invited abroad to lecture. His delivery in Scotland of the Gifford Lectures led him to write perhaps his most magisterial...
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    he delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, which were published as Religion and the One. These lectures attempted to "express...
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  • The Varieties of Religious Experience (category Gifford Lectures books)
    edited Gifford Lectures on natural theology, which were delivered at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland between 1901 and 1902. The lectures concerned...
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    1959–60 Gifford Lectures, given at the University of St. Andrews) Norm and Action, 1963 (revised version of the first half of his Gifford lectures at St...
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  • The Mystery of Being (category Gifford Lectures books)
    and Reality". First published in 1951, the book is a collection of Gifford Lectures given by Marcel while at the University of Aberdeen between 1949 and...
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    published by Cambridge University Press. In 2022, he delivered the Gifford Lectures on A New Calvinist Reformation of Rights at the University of Aberdeen...
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  • Exemplarist Moral Theory (category Gifford Lectures books)
    moral philosophy by Linda Zagzebski, published in 2017 based on her Gifford Lectures. Birondo, Noell (October 27, 2017). "Exemplarist Moral Theory". Notre...
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  • relational nature of human beings. These themes are the basis for his Gifford Lectures delivered in 1953 and 1954 at the University of Glasgow, and entitled...
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  • particular, the legendary gods of Vedic Hinduism. Müller used it in the Gifford Lectures in connection with the Vedanta philosophy, for the correlative of ignorance...
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    August 2009 The Salisbury Review The Gifford Lectures 2010. University of St Andrews (Audio) The Stanton Lectures 2011–2012. University of Cambridge The...
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    Process and Reality (category Gifford Lectures books)
    process philosophy. The book, published in 1929, is a revision of the Gifford Lectures he gave in 1927–28. We diverge from Descartes by holding that what...
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    Bioethics (The 2001 Gifford Lectures). Cambridge University Press. O'Neill, Onora (2002). A Question of Trust: The BBC Reith Lectures. Cambridge University...
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  • the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2022, he delivered the Gifford Lectures on A Brief History of Form at the University of Aberdeen, and again...
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