Lecture series

The Gifford Lectures

For over a century, the Gifford Lectures have enabled international scholars to contribute to the advancement of theological and philosophical thought.

Video playlist

Our video playlist features all of the Gifford lectures held at the University since May 2009.

Single Gifford Lectures

Patricia Churchland - Morality and the Mammalian Brain (1 hour, 14 minutes)
Prof Terry Eagleton - The God Debate (1 hour, 2 minutes)

Professor Michael Gazzaniga's lectures

What We Are (1 hour, 8 minutes)
The Distributed Networks of Mind (1 hour, 15 minutes)
The Interpreter (1 hour, 19 minutes)
Free Yet Determined and Constrained (1 hour, 11 minutes)
The Social Brain (1 hour, 2 minutes)
We Are the Law (1 hour, 2 minutes)

Professor Diana Eck's lectures

Globalization and Religious Pluralism (1 hour, 22 minutes)
The New Cosmopolis: Cities and the Realities of Religious Pluralism (1 hour, 12 minutes)
The Civic Perspective: Citizens, Nations, and the Challenges of Religious Pluralism (1 hour, 28 minutes)
Religious Views of Religious Pluralism I (1 hour, 9 minutes)
Religious Views of Religious Pluralism II (1 hour, 19 minutes)
The Pluralism Within (1 hour, 11 minutes)

How to use the video playlist

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Audio podcast series

The Gifford Lectures are available as an audio podcast.

Featured podcast

Prof Michael Gazzaniga: What We Are

Prof Gazzaniga asks what we need to know about the human brain in order to discuss the questions of free will, mental causation, morals, ethics, and the law.

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Our audio podcast features all of the Gifford lectures held at the University since May 2009.