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Michael Gazzaniga - The Interpreter - Duration: 1 hour, 19 minutes.
The third in a series of Gifford Lectures by Professor Michael Gazzaniga. Recorded 15 October, 2009 at the Playfair Library Hall, the University of Edinburgh.
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Michael Gazzaniga - What We Are - Duration: 1 hour, 7 minutes.
The first in a series of Gifford Lectures by Professor Michael Gazzaniga. Recorded 12 October, 2009 at the Playfair Library Hall, the University of Edinburgh.
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Michael Gazzaniga - The Social Brain - Duration: 1 hour, 2 minutes.
The fifth in a series of Gifford Lectures by Professor Michael Gazzaniga. Recorded 20 October, 2009 at the Playfair Library Hall, the University of Edinburgh.This item has been hidden -
Michael Gazzaniga - Free Yet Determined and Constrained - Duration: 1 hour, 11 minutes.
The fourth in a series of Gifford Lectures by Professor Michael Gazzaniga. Recorded 19 October, 2009 at the Playfair Library Hall, the University of Edinburgh.
So what does free will mean? It ha...This item has been hidden -
Michael Gazzaniga - The Distributed Networks of Mind - Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes.
The second in a series of Gifford Lectures by Professor Michael Gazzaniga. Recorded 13 October, 2009 at the Playfair Library Hall, the University of Edinburgh.
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Michael Gazzaniga - We Are the Law - Duration: 1 hour.
The sixth in a series of Gifford Lectures by Professor Michael Gazzaniga. Recorded 22 October, 2009 at the Playfair Library Hall, the University of Edinburgh.This item has been hidden -
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Prof. Daniel Dennett: Is Science Showing That We Don't Have Free Will? - Duration: 1 hour, 23 minutes.
A public lecture by Daniel C. Dennett, Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, entitled "Is Science Showing That We Don't Have Free Will?"
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Diana Eck - Religious Views of Religious Pluralism I - Duration: 1 hour, 8 minutes.
Religious diversity poses questions that are not only global, national, and civic, but also theological. In 1910, the World Conference on Mission convened in Edinburgh and addressed the world's rel...This item has been hidden -
Hans Blix: Reducing the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction - Duration: 1 hour, 7 minutes.
In February 2004, Dr. Hans Blix, the former Chief UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq, spoke to a packed audience of over 1200 students and members of the public in the University of Edinburgh's McEwan Ha...This item has been hidden -
Justice Catherine O'Regan - Adjudicating Faith in Modern Constitutional Democracies - Duration: 1 hour.
Justice Catherine O'Regan, former judge to the South African Constitutional Court and chairperson of the United Nations Internal Justice Council, delivers the University of Edinburgh's 2014 Gifford...This item has been hidden -
Prof. Helga Nowotny - Beyond Innovation. Temporalities. Re-use. Emergence. - Duration: 1 hour, 11 minutes.
Professor Helga Nowotny, Professor Emerita of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, delivers the Gifford Lecture entitled "Beyond Innovation. Temporalities. Re-use. Emergence."
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Prof. Kathryn Tanner - Another World? - Duration: 1 hour, 12 minutes.
Professor Kathryn Tanner the Marquand Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School, delivers the Gifford Lecture entitled "Another World?".
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Lord Sutherland - David Hume and Civil Society - Duration: 1 hour, 16 minutes.
David Hume's thinking was radical and thorough. This was his strength, but also a source of ammunition to his enemies. He has been interpreted as being scathingly negative in all of his conclusions...This item has been hidden -
Lord Williams of Oystermouth - Representing Reality - Duration: 1 hour, 25 minutes.
Lord Rowan Williams of Oystermouth delivers the Gifford Lecture series entitled "Making Representations: Religious Faith and the Habits of Language".
Lecture 1: Representing Reality
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Andrew Hopper - Computing for the Future of the Planet - Duration: 55 minutes.
Digital technology is becoming an indispensable and crucial component of our lives, society, and environment.
A framework for computing in the context of problems facing the planet will be prese...This item has been hidden -
Prof. John Iredale - A Study in Scarring: The Dark Side of Wound Repair - Duration: 46 minutes.
John Iredale is Professor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Recorded on 12 November 2009 in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre.This item has been hidden -
Lord Williams of Oystermouth - Can We Say What We Like? Language, Freedom and Determinism - Duration: 1 hour, 26 minutes.
Lord Rowan Williams of Oystermouth delivers the Gifford Lecture series entitled "Making Representations: Religious Faith and the Habits of Language".
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Prof. Diarmaid MacCulloch - Silence Transformed: The Third Reformation 1500-1700 - Duration: 1 hour, 4 minutes.
Lecture 4: Silence transformed: the third Reformation 1500-1700
The noisiness of Protestantism, particularly exacerbated by the end of monasticism, unsuccessfully countered in the Church of Zürich...This item has been hidden -
Gordon Brown - The Future of Jobs and Justice - Duration: 1 hour, 18 minutes.
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown returns to his former university to give a talk on economics. The lecture argues that there is an alternative to a future of low growth and high unemployment; tha...This item has been hidden -
Prof. Kathryn Tanner - Which World? - Duration: 58 minutes.
Professor Kathryn Tanner the Marquand Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School, delivers the Gifford Lecture entitled "Which World?".
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Prof. Amartya Sen - David Hume and the Demands of Ethics - Duration: 1 hour, 25 minutes.
Nobel Prize laureate Professor Amartya Sen presents a lecture entitled David Hume and the Demands of Ethics.
The Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University gave his lecture as par...This item has been hidden -
Prof. Jeremy Waldron - More Than Merely Equal Consideration - Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes.
Professor Jeremy Waldron, University Professor at the New York University Law School, delivers the first in the 2015 Gifford Lecture series, entitled "More Than Merely Equal Consideration, - the Re...This item has been hidden -
Annie Lennox receives honorary degree - Duration: 2 minutes, 58 seconds.
The acclaimed singer songwriter and human rights campaigner Annie Lennox has received an honorary degree from the University of Edinburgh.
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Prof. Jeremy Waldron - Everyone To Count For One - Duration: 1 hour, 22 minutes.
Professor Jeremy Waldron, University Professor at the New York University Law School, delivers the second in the 2015 Gifford Lecture series, entitled "Everyone To Count For One - The Logic of Basi...This item has been hidden -
Prof. Bruno Latour - Inside the 'Planetary Boundaries': Gaia's Estate - Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes.
Professor Bruno Latour delivers the Gifford Lecture series entitled "Facing Gaia. A new enquiry into Natural Religion".
Lecture 6: Inside the 'Planetary Boundaries': Gaia's Estate
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Patricia Churchland - Morality and the Mammalian Brain - Duration: 1 hour, 14 minutes.
Self-caring neural circuitry embodies self-preservation values, and these are values in the most elemental sense. Whence caring for others?
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Prof. Peter Harrison - The Disenchantment of the World - Duration: 1 hour, 5 minutes.
Professor Peter Harrison gives his third Gifford lecture, entitled The Disenchantment of the World.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the contemplative approach to nature, along with the ...This item has been hidden -
Ifigeneia Stavrou's Three Minute Thesis - Making KS patients comfortable in their skin - Duration: 2 minutes, 55 seconds.
Ifigeneia Stavrou from the Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine presented her Three Minute Thesis entitled "Making KS patients comfortable in their skin: The missing puzzle piece".
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Jon Snow - A changing media in a changing world - Duration: 1 hour, 8 minutes.
Broadcaster and journalist Jon Snow examines the impact of digital technology, social websites and citizen journalism on the second-oldest profession.
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