Lectures are free and open to all without ticket or prior booking. They will be held in the James Watt Building, Room 15, Gilmorehill Campus, University Avenue.

Programme

Sunday September 2
Lecture 1: 4.30 - 5.30 pm
Professor Philip Johnson-Laird
Princeton University
Illusions of Understanding

Monday September 3
Lecture 2: 4.30 - 5.30 pm
Professor George Lakoff
University of California at Berkeley
The Embodied Mind and Metaphorical Thought:
1. How the Body Shapes Thought

Lecture 3: 7 - 8 pm
Professor Michael Ruse
Florida State University
Darwinism and Human Understanding: History

Tuesday September 4
Lecture 4: 4.30 - 5.30 pm
Professor Lynne R Baker
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
First-Person Knowledge

Lecture 5: 7 - 8 pm
The Revd Canon Brian Hebblethwaite
Cambridge University
The Nature and Limits of Metaphysical Understanding

Wednesday September 5
4.30 - 5.30 pm
Round Table session, involving all speakers
Senate Room, Main Building, Gilmorehill Campus

Lecture 6: 7 - 8 pm
Professor Philip Johnson-Laird
Princeton University
Models, Causation and Explanation

Thursday September 6
Lecture 7: 4.30 - 5.30 pm
Professor George Lakoff
University of California at Berkeley
The Embodied Mind and Metaphorical Thought:
2. How the Body Shapes Mathematics

Lecture 8: 7 - 8 pm
Professor Michael Ruse
Florida State University
Darwinism and Human Understanding: Philosophy

Friday September 7
Lecture 9: 4.30 - 5.30 pm
Professor Lynne R Baker
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Third-Person Understanding

Lecture 10: 7 - 8 pm
The Revd Canon Brian Hebblethwaite
Cambridge University
The Nature and Limits of Theological Understanding

The Gifford Lectures were founded in 1887, with similar Lectureships in the other three ancient Scottish universities (St Andrews, Edinburgh, Aberdeen), by the bequest of Lord Gifford, for promoting, advancing and diffusing the study of Natural Theology in the widest sense of that term.

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First published: 30 August 2001