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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Max Müller (section Gifford Lectures)
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 Eagleton (section Terry and Gifford Lectures)
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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Neuroscience Society, and the American Humanist Association. He delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 2013. He has served on the editorial...
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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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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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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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The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (category Gifford Lectures books)
Political Ethics in an Age of Terror is a lecture and book written by Michael Ignatieff as part of the Gifford Lectures. In it, Ignatieff considers the question...
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Theism and Humanism (category Gifford Lectures books)
Humanism is a book by A.J. Balfour published in 1915 based on his 1914 Gifford Lectures. This book has been reviewed by T.S. Eliot in the journal Ethics and...
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philosopher, author, psychologist and physician. In 2016, he delivered the Gifford Lectures on The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe...
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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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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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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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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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The Life of the Mind (category Gifford Lectures books)
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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The Nature and Destiny of Man (category Gifford Lectures books)
theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. The book is partly based on his 1939 Gifford Lectures. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked it the 18th-greatest non-fiction...
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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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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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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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The Varieties of Scientific Experience (category Gifford Lectures books)
Sagan delivered in 1985 at the University of Glasgow as part of the Gifford Lectures. The book was first published posthumously in 2006, 10 years after...
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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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A Secular Age (category Gifford Lectures books)
2007 by Harvard University Press on the basis of Taylor's earlier Gifford Lectures (Edinburgh 1998–99). The noted sociologist Robert Bellah has referred...
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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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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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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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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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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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ISBN 978-0-679-41160-4. LCCN 96052730. OCLC 36066119. —— (2006) [Edited from 1985 Gifford Lectures, University of Glasgow]. Druyan, Ann (ed.). The Varieties of Scientific...
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