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The Dwight H. Terry Lectureship invites preeminent scholars in religion, the sciences and philosophy to address issues concerning the ways in which science and philosophy inform religion and religion's application to human welfare. The lectures are typically four in number and are usually delivered…

Yale University


    • Apr 19, 2013 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 1h 3m AVG DURATION
    • 12 EPISODES


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    Secular Humanism: Depth and Depravity

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2013 66:35


    Philosophy professor Philip Kitcher delivers the final of four lectures on secular humanism. Kitcher, who was born in London in 1947, received his B.A. from Cambridge University and his Ph.D. from Princeton. He has taught at several American universities and is currently John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia. He is the author of books on topics ranging from the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of biology, the growth of science, the role of science in society, Wagner's Ring and Joyce's Finnegans Wake. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Kitcher was the first recipient of the Prometheus Prize, awarded by the American Philosophical Association for work in expanding the frontiers of science and philosophy. He has been President of the American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division) and Editor-in-Chief of Philosophy of Science.

    Secular Humanism: Mortality and Meaning

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2013 72:18


    Philosophy professor Philip Kitcher delivers the third of four lectures on secular humanism. Kitcher, who was born in London in 1947, received his B.A. from Cambridge University and his Ph.D. from Princeton. He has taught at several American universities and is currently John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia. He is the author of books on topics ranging from the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of biology, the growth of science, the role of science in society, Wagner's Ring and Joyce's Finnegans Wake. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Kitcher was the first recipient of the Prometheus Prize, awarded by the American Philosophical Association for work in expanding the frontiers of science and philosophy. He has been President of the American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division) and Editor-in-Chief of Philosophy of Science.

    Secular Humanism: Ethics as a Human Project

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2013 72:13


    Philosophy professor Philip Kitcher delivers the second of four lectures on secular humanism. Kitcher, who was born in London in 1947, received his B.A. from Cambridge University and his Ph.D. from Princeton. He has taught at several American universities and is currently John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia. He is the author of books on topics ranging from the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of biology, the growth of science, the role of science in society, Wagner's Ring and Joyce's Finnegans Wake. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Kitcher was the first recipient of the Prometheus Prize, awarded by the American Philosophical Association for work in expanding the frontiers of science and philosophy. He has been President of the American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division) and Editor-in-Chief of Philosophy of Science.

    Secular Humanism: Beyond Doubt

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2013 63:33


    Philosophy professor Philip Kitcher delivers the first of four lectures on secular humanism. Kitcher, who was born in London in 1947, received his B.A. from Cambridge University and his Ph.D. from Princeton. He has taught at several American universities and is currently John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia. He is the author of books on topics ranging from the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of biology, the growth of science, the role of science in society, Wagner's Ring and Joyce's Finnegans Wake. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Kitcher was the first recipient of the Prometheus Prize, awarded by the American Philosophical Association for work in expanding the frontiers of science and philosophy. He has been President of the American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division) and Editor-in-Chief of Philosophy of Science.

    Apes and Academics, Debates and Sermons

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2013 75:01


    Keith S. Thomson delivers the third of four Terry lectures, "Jefferson and Darwin: Science and Religion in Troubled Times." In the last 300 years, science and religion, however construed, have diverged so much as almost no longer to be recognizable to each other, according to Thomson, a biologist and an historian of science. In these lectures he will examine first the interplay between science and religion in the 18th and 19th centuries, principally in the lives and thoughts of two familiar, but very different intellectual giants, Thomas Jefferson and Charles Darwin.

    Science, Religion, and the Contest for Authority

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2012 46:25


    Keith S. Thomson delivers the fourth of four Terry lectures, "Jefferson and Darwin: Science and Religion in Troubled Times." In the last 300 years, science and religion, however construed, have diverged so much as almost no longer to be recognizable to each other, according to Thomson, a biologist and an historian of science. In these lectures he will examine first the interplay between science and religion in the 18th and 19th centuries, principally in the lives and thoughts of two familiar, but very different intellectual giants, Thomas Jefferson and Charles Darwin.

    The Devil and Mr. Darwin: Creation and The Origin

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2012 60:22


    Keith S. Thomson delivers the second of four Terry lectures, "Jefferson and Darwin: Science and Religion in Troubled Times." In the last 300 years, science and religion, however construed, have diverged so much as almost no longer to be recognizable to each other, according to Thomson, a biologist and an historian of science. In these lectures he will examine first the interplay between science and religion in the 18th and 19th centuries, principally in the lives and thoughts of two familiar, but very different intellectual giants, Thomas Jefferson and Charles Darwin.

    Thomas Jefferson: Ancient and Modern

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2012 48:47


    Keith S. Thomson delivers the first of four Terry Lectures at Yale, "Jefferson and Darwin: Science and Religion in Troubled Times". In the last 300 years, science and religion, however construed, have diverged so much as almost no longer to be recognizable to each other, according to Thomson, a biologist and an historian of science. In these lectures he will examine first the interplay between science and religion in the 18th and 19th centuries, principally in the lives and thoughts of two familiar, but very different intellectual giants, Thomas Jefferson and Charles Darwin.

    Culture and Barbarism

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2008 53:57


    Terry Eagleton, John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester, delivers the final lecture in a series of lectures entitled “Faith and Fundamentalism: Is Belief in Richard Dawkins Necessary for Salvation?”

    Faith and Reason

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2008 80:52


    Terry Eagleton, John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester, delivers the third lecture in a series of lectures entitled “Faith and Fundamentalism: Is Belief in Richard Dawkins Necessary for Salvation?”

    The Limits of Liberalism

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2008 80:39


    Terry Eagleton, John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester, delivers the second lecture in a series of lectures entitled “Faith and Fundamentalism: Is Belief in Richard Dawkins Necessary for Salvation?”

    Christianity Fair or Foul

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2008 45:37


    Terry Eagleton, John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester, delivers the first lecture in a series of lectures entitled “Faith and Fundamentalism: Is Belief in Richard Dawkins Necessary for Salvation?”

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