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Annual series of lectures on natural theology
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
Gifford_Lectures
British philologist (1823–1900)
original title of the lectures was 'Psychological Religion' but Müller felt compelled to add 'Theosophy' to it. Müller's final Gifford Lecture is significant
Max_Müller
English author and academic (born 1943)
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
Terry_Eagleton
Scottish advocate for judge
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)
Adam_Gifford,_Lord_Gifford
Australian historian and philosopher
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
Peter_Harrison_(historian)
1951 book by Gabriel Marcel
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
The_Mystery_of_Being
English classicist (born 1955)
Ltd, based on the Berlin Family Lectures she delivered to the University of Chicago in 2023 and her 2019 Gifford Lectures, delivered to the University of
Mary_Beard
1943 book by Reinhold Niebuhr
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
The_Nature_and_Destiny_of_Man
2005 book by Michael Ignatieff
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
The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror
The_Lesser_Evil:_Political_Ethics_in_an_Age_of_Terror
Posthumous and incomplete philosophy book by Hannah Arendt
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
The_Life_of_the_Mind
1915 book by A.J. Balfour
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
Theism_and_Humanism
Finnish philosopher (1916–2003)
and then moved on to the general philosophy of norms. He gave the Gifford Lectures in 1959 and used that material to write his books The Varieties of
Georg_Henrik_von_Wright
2017 book by Linda Zagzebski
moral philosophy by Linda Zagzebski, published in 2017 based on her Gifford Lectures. Birondo, Noell (October 27, 2017). "Exemplarist Moral Theory". Notre
Exemplarist_Moral_Theory
Series of annual lectures
Another comparable lecture series is the Gifford Lectures, which are delivered annually at several universities in Scotland. The first lecture series was offered
John_Locke_Lectures
1902 book by William James
edited Gifford Lectures on natural theology, which were delivered at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, between 1901 and 1902. The lectures concerned
The Varieties of Religious Experience
The_Varieties_of_Religious_Experience
1988 book by Freeman Dyson
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
Infinite_in_All_Directions
British classical scholar (born 1970)
Whitmarsh". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 14 July 2026. "Previous Gifford Lectures". www.abdn.ac.uk. The School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art
Tim_Whitmarsh
American Protestant theologian (born 1940)
in 2001. He was also the first American theologian to deliver the Gifford Lectures at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland in over forty years. His
Stanley_Hauerwas
Scottish writer and classical scholar (1830–1908)
at Wikisource Lewis Campbell biographical notes and Lectures available from the Gifford Lectures website Works by Lewis Campbell at Project Gutenberg
Lewis_Campbell_(classicist)
Queen of the United Kingdom since 2022
5677 Aberdonia Aberdeen University Press Journal of Scottish Philosophy Gifford Lectures Littlejohn Vase Word (writers' festival) Category Commons Portal
Queen_Camilla
1929 book by Alfred North Whitehead
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
Process_and_Reality
Iranian philosopher, theologian, and Islamic scholar (born 1933)
1964–65, Rockefeller Lectures (University of Chicago) in 1966, Kevorkian Lectures (New York University) in 1977, Gifford Lectures (University of Edinburgh)
Seyyed_Hossein_Nasr
2006 book by Carl Sagan
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
The Varieties of Scientific Experience
The_Varieties_of_Scientific_Experience
British academic on Eastern religions
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
Robert_Charles_Zaehner
Mythical character
Lewis Richard Farnell, Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality: the Gifford Lectures, "The Cults of Epic Heroes: Peleus" 1921:310f. Farnell 1921:310f; Farnell
Peleus
British philosopher (1931–2026)
Waddington, C. H. (1972), The Nature of Mind, Edinburgh University Press (Gifford Lectures, online) ISBN 0-85224-235-2 Kenny, A., Longuet-Higgins, H. C., Lucas
Anthony_Kenny
British particle physicist (1931–2022)
as a Fellow of University College London in 2000. He gave the 1998 Gifford Lectures on "The God Experiment". He wrote the entry on relativity for the Very
Russell_Stannard
1981 book by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
and the first non-Westerner to deliver the Gifford Lectures. He received his invitation to deliver the lectures immediately before the Iranian revolution
Knowledge_and_the_Sacred
British physicist (1922–1987)
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
Donald_MacCrimmon_MacKay
Scottish philosopher (1891–1976)
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
John_Macmurray
Topics referred to by the same term
Wiltshire, England Gifford Lectures, endowed by Scottish jurist Adam Gifford Gifford Observatory, Wellington, New Zealand Gifford Pinchot National Forest
Gifford
2007 book by Charles Taylor
2007 by Harvard University Press on the basis of Taylor's earlier Gifford Lectures (Edinburgh 1998–99). The noted sociologist Robert Bellah has referred
A_Secular_Age
English philosopher (1944–2020)
August 2009 The Salisbury Review The Gifford Lectures 2010. University of St Andrews (Audio) The Stanton Lectures 2011–2012. University of Cambridge The
Roger_Scruton
British philosopher & college principal (born 1941)
chaired the Nuffield Foundation (1998–2010). In 2001, she delivered the Gifford Lectures on Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics at the University of Edinburgh,
Onora_O'Neill
English philosopher and political theorist (1848–1923)
Individual, Macmillan, 1923. (Gifford Lectures, 1910–12) The Distinction between Mind and Its Objects (1913) Three Lectures on Aesthetic (1915) Social and
Bernard Bosanquet (philosopher)
Bernard_Bosanquet_(philosopher)
English literary scholar (1851–1935)
library membership required.) Hancock, Brannon. "Andrew Cecil Bradley". Gifford Lectures. Archived from the original on 14 August 2010. Taylor, Michael (5 April
A._C._Bradley
American scientist and science communicator (1934–1996)
wife, Ann Druyan, said In 2006, Druyan edited Sagan's 1985 Glasgow Gifford Lectures in Natural Theology into a book, The Varieties of Scientific Experience:
Carl_Sagan
Greek-born American philosopher (born 1946)
In 2016, Nehamas published a book, On Friendship, based on his 2008 Gifford Lectures. In it, he argues, contra Aristotle, that friendship is an aesthetic
Alexander_Nehamas
Stance that only one spiritual belief is true
Schmidt-Leukel, Religious Pluralism and Interreligious Dialogue:the Gifford lectures, New York: Orbis Books-an extended edition, 2017, p.73 Why Jesus? Article
Religious_exclusivism
British historian (born 1956)
a Turku Agora Lecture. In 2017 she gave the Wiles Lectures at Queen's University Belfast. In 2024, she delivered the Gifford Lectures on The Feminine
Miri_Rubin
Complete loss of subjective self-identity
varieties of religious experience : a study in human nature : being the Gifford lectures on natural religion delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902. Fisher - University
Ego_death
Surname list
Gifford (1820–1887), Scottish advocate; benefactor of the Gifford Lectures endowment Alden I. Gifford (1910–1995), American international businessman; diplomat
Gifford_(surname)
American philosopher
Philosophy) (Gifford Lectures 1965–1966 [2]) Axiological Ethics, London: Macmillan, 1970 Ascent to the Absolute: Metaphysical Papers and Lectures, London:
J._N._Findlay
English mathematician and philosopher (1861–1947)
centres around the delivery of Whitehead's Gifford lectures in 1927–28 – following Arthur Eddington's lectures of the year previous – which Whitehead would
Alfred_North_Whitehead
Scottish philosopher (born 1954)
Georgetown University, and delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen in 2003–04, and the Joseph Lectures at the Gregorian University in Rome
John_Haldane_(philosopher)
British Catholic priest, philosopher, and historian of philosophy (1907–1994)
he delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, which were published as Religion and the One. These lectures attempted to "express
Frederick_Copleston
Scottish philosopher (1835–1908)
1893 (Gifford Lectures 1890–92; I, II) The Evolution of Theology in the Greek Philosophers, Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons, 1904 (Gifford Lectures, 1900–02;
Edward_Caird
American philosopher (1932–2025)
Prize, awarded by Prince Philip in Buckingham Palace. He gave the Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh, 1997–1998. He also served on the Advisory
Holmes_Rolston_III
Tenth and final avatar of Hindu deity Vishnu
Schmidt-Leukel (2017). Religious Pluralism and Interreligious Theology: The Gifford Lectures. Orbis. pp. 220–222. ISBN 978-1-60833-695-1. [a] Björn Dahla (2006)
Kalki
English philosopher of morality, education, and mind, and a writer (1924–2019)
She delivered the Gifford Lectures, entitled "Imagination and Understanding," at the University of Glasgow in 1992. These lectures would form some of
Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock
Mary_Warnock,_Baroness_Warnock
English mathematician, mathematical physicist (born 1931)
on 8 October 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2020. "Roger Penrose". The Gifford Lectures. 18 August 2014. Archived from the original on 11 October 2020. Retrieved
Roger_Penrose
English academic philosopher (born 1944)
Society, having served the 2009–2010 term. In 2004, he delivered the Gifford Lectures on Reason's Empire at the University of Glasgow. He was elected a Fellow
Simon_Blackburn
Ancient Greek goddess
Lewis Richard (1921). Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of St. Andrews in the Year 1920. Clarendon
Athena
British philosopher of science
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
John_Dupré
British philosopher
She is a professor at King's College London. In 2024 she gave the Gifford Lectures at the University of St Andrews. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian
Clare_Carlisle
American philosopher (1855–1916)
developing the philosophy of the individual person in greater detail in his Gifford Lectures, published under the title The World and the Individual (1899, 1901)
Josiah_Royce
British philosopher (1929–2020)
1972 Gifford Lectures) ISBN 0-85224-235-2 1973. The Development of Mind. (with A. J. P. Kenny, H.C.Longet-Higgins, and C.H.Waddington; 1973 Gifford Lectures)
John_Lucas_(philosopher)
American philosopher (born 1942)
October 2002 The Gifford Lectures, eight lectures delivered at the University of St. Andrews, May 2003 The Jellema Lectures: two lectures delivered at Calvin
Peter_van_Inwagen
British art historian and writer
Should Fall: Cézanne and the Present (2022). In 2020, he delivered the Gifford Lectures on Heaven on Earth: Painting and the Life to Come at the University
T._J._Clark_(art_historian)
Hungarian-British polymath (1891–1976)
practice of science. Polanyi gave the Gifford Lectures in 1951–52 at Aberdeen, and a revised version of his lectures were later published as Personal Knowledge
Michael_Polanyi
British Anglican priest and academic
Excellence in Reformed Theology and Public Life. In 2021, he delivered the Gifford Lectures on The Disappearance of Ethics at the University of St Andrews. O'Donovan
Oliver_O'Donovan
American Catholic theologian and priest, and academic (1939–2025)
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
David_Tracy
British idealist philosopher (1863–1939)
William David Ross on a 12-volume translation of Aristotle, and his Gifford Lectures for 1929–1931 on the Heritage of Idealism, which were never published
John_Alexander_Smith
British palaeontologist
Edinburgh Gifford Lectures for 2007 in a series titled "Darwin's Compass: How Evolution Discovers the Song of Creation". In these lectures Conway Morris
Simon_Conway_Morris
American psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist (born 1939)
mind's complex relationship with the brain. In 2009, he delivered the Gifford Lectures on Mental Life at the University of Edinburgh. In 2011, he was elected
Michael_Gazzaniga
Symbol of medicine
Cult of Asklepios"". Greek hero cults and ideas of immortality : the Gifford lectures delivered in the University of St. Andrews in the year 1920. Oxford:
Rod_of_Asclepius
British theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster
Empire (OBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours. In 2012, he delivered the Gifford Lectures on Alan Turing: Legacy of a Code Breaker at the University of Edinburgh
Jim_Al-Khalili
French and American Writer, literary critic and philosopher (1929–2020)
semi-autobiography, and Grammars of Creation (2001), based on Steiner's 1990 Gifford Lectures delivered at the University of Glasgow, explores a range of subjects
George_Steiner
Irish Anglican priest, scientist, and academic (born 1953)
Professional Studies at King's College London. In 2009, he delivered the Gifford Lectures on A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest for God in Science and Theology
Alister_McGrath
List of scientists who are Christians
The Gifford Lectures. 18 August 2014. Archived from the original on 18 October 2005. Retrieved 15 January 2015. "Search results". The Gifford Lectures. Archived
List of Christians in science and technology
List_of_Christians_in_science_and_technology
American academic, LGBT+ activist
sexuality and the built environment. In 2022, Halberstam delivered the Gifford Lectures on Collapse, Demolition, and the Queer Geographies and Unworlding:
Jack_Halberstam
British scholar
University, where he gained a PhD in Theology. He delivered a series of Gifford Lectures in 2007 entitled "Seeing Things: From Mantelpieces to Masterpieces"
Stephen_Pattison
American theologian (born 1945)
diversity in the United States since 1965. In 2009, she delivered the Gifford Lectures on The Age of Pluralism at the University of Edinburgh. Eck is married
Diana_L._Eck
Scottish classicist (1860–1907)
senate of the university in 1897" In 1904 and 1905 Adam delivered the Gifford Lectures at Aberdeen, choosing for his subject "The Religious Teachers of Greece"
James_Adam_(classicist)
Theories about the end of the universe
ISBN 978-0-674-00342-2. Dyson, Freeman (2004). Infinite in All Directions (the 1985 Gifford Lectures). Harper Perennial. ISBN 978-0-06-039081-5. Harrison, Edward (2003)
Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe
British theologian (1838–1910)
some time he lived at Musselburgh. He was scheduled to deliver the Gifford lectures at Edinburgh in 1907, but was unable due to illness. Flint died, unmarried
Robert_Flint_(theologian)
Northern Irish historian (born 1963)
the documentary film Bobby Sands: 66 Days. In 2017, he delivered the Gifford Lectures on Nationalism, Terrorism and Religion at the University of Edinburgh
Richard_English
Forming something new and somehow valuable
1927, mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead gave the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh, later published as Process and Reality
Creativity
American philosopher (1892–1987)
"Reason and Belief" and "Reason and Goodness"; the Gifford Lectures "On Philosophical Style": Adamson Lecture, Manchester University, 1953. Brand Blanshard
Brand_Blanshard
American philosopher and theologian (born 1932)
the American Council of Learned Societies. He was chosen to give the Gifford Lectures twice, first in 1987 at the University of Aberdeen, and secondly in
Alvin_Plantinga
German biologist and philosopher
natural theology at the University of Aberdeen, where he delivered the Gifford Lectures in 1906 and 1908 on The Science and Philosophy of the Organism – the
Hans_Driesch
Scottish theologian (1886–1960)
conferences since 1945. Shortly after his death in 1960, the series of Gifford Lectures he had prepared for the 1961–2 academic year was read by John McIntyre
John_Baillie_(theologian)
Archbishop of Canterbury from 2003 to 2012
crossbencher. Oystermouth is a district of Swansea. Williams delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 2013 and served as Master of Magdalene
Rowan_Williams
American theoretical physicist (born 1966)
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
Sean_M._Carroll
Scottish scholar of religions (1927–2001)
Religions at University of California, Santa Barbara. Smart presented the Gifford Lectures in 1979–80. In 1996, he was named the Academic Senate's research professor
Ninian_Smart
American philosopher (1876–1957)
modern America. Between 1946 and 1948, he delivered in Glasgow his Gifford Lectures, titled Realms of Value. He married Rachel Berenson on August 15, 1905
Ralph_Barton_Perry
English philosopher and Christian apologist (born 1934)
taught at Keele University. During part of this time, he gave the Gifford lectures at Aberdeen from 1982 to 1984, resulting in the book The Evolution
Richard_Swinburne
Scottish theologian (born 1956)
He delivered the Cunningham Lectures in Edinburgh in 1996, the Bampton Lectures in Oxford in 2001, the Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow
David_Fergusson_(theologian)
Set of phenomena emerging from pre-existing phenomena
OCLC 2083641. Alexander, Samuel (1920). Space, time, and deity: the Gifford lectures at Glasgow, 1916–1918. Vol. 1916–18. London: Macmillan. OCLC 1041642
Integrative_level
British academic (born 1963)
Dean International for the Middle East. In 2016, she delivered the Gifford Lectures on Struggle, Suffering and Hope: Explorations in Islamic and Christian
Mona_Siddiqui
French philosopher (born 1946)
News. "The Glasgow Gifford Lectures". gla.ac.uk. University of Glasgow. In both 2023 and 2024, he both gave the Gadamer lectures and led seminars at
Jean-Luc_Marion
Archbishop of York from 1983 to 1995
related to John Habgood. Biography – John Habgood, on the Gifford Lectures site. 2000–2001 lectures are online. John Habgood – God debates at Cambridge website
John_Habgood
American Episcopal theologian (born 1957)
Theology. Tanner delivered the Warfield Lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary in 2007 and the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 2016
Kathryn_Tanner
Counterintuitive result in probability
URL Arthur Eddington (1928). The Nature of the Physical World: The Gifford Lectures. New York: Macmillan. p. 72. ISBN 0-8414-3885-4. {{cite book}}: ISBN
Infinite_monkey_theorem
English author, Anglican dean and professor of divinity (1860–1954)
Mysticism, considered in eight lectures delivered before the University of Oxford (1918) The Philosophy of Plotinus (Gifford Lectures) 1918. Online: Volume 1
William_Ralph_Inge
Canadian-American academic
published by Cambridge University Press. In 2022, he delivered the Gifford Lectures on A New Calvinist Reformation of Rights at the University of Aberdeen
John_Witte_Jr.
Denial of gods
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
Adevism
English philosopher of science
The Gifford Lectures. 18 August 2014. Archived from the original on 28 May 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2019. "The Construction of Reality". The Gifford Lectures
Mary_Hesse
British astrophysicist (born 1942)
drastically improve standards of living. In 2007, he delivered the Gifford Lectures on 21st Century Science: Cosmic Perspective and Terrestrial Challenges
Martin_Rees
British historian
appear to say things that I do not believe!" In 2006, he delivered the Gifford Lectures on The Crusades and Christianity at the University of Edinburgh. Riley-Smith
Jonathan_Riley-Smith
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