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2012 Gifford Lecture Series: University of St. Andrews

Event Date: 
Monday, December 3, 2012 - 17:15 to Friday, December 7, 2012 - 18:15
Venue: 
School III of St Salvator’s Quad, North Street, St Andrews
Details

Dr. Denis Alexander (University of Cambridge) will present The Gifford Lecture Series at St. Andrews beginning December 3, 2012. The lecture series will be delivered in School III of St Salvator’s Quad, North Street, St Andrews. Each lecture will begin at 5.15pm, and following the first there will be a reception in Lower College Hall. Lectures are free and open to the public as well as to staff and students of the University.

Monday, December 3rd Lecture 1 Genes, History and Ideology
Tuesday, December 4th Lecture 2 Reshaping the Matrix of Genes and Environment
Thursday, December 6th Lecture 3 Genetic Variation and Human Behaviour
Friday, December 7th Lecture 4 Molecular Genetics, Determinism and the Imago Dei
Lecture Information

Denis Alexander speaks in this four-part lecture series to the complex interplay between biological claims about genes, philosophical claims about determinism and theological claims about God. 

Lecturer Information
Emeritus Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge

Dr. Denis Alexander is the Emeritus Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, where he is a Fellow.