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The Gifford Lectures

Over 100 years of lectures on natural theology

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The Sciences and Philosophy

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The Sciences and Philosophy
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Preface
Lecture I: Biology and the Physical Sciences
Lecture II: The Rise of Mechanistic Biology
Lecture III: The Fate of Mechanistic Biology
Lecture IV: Vitalistic Biology
Lecture V: Biology an Independent Science
Lecture VI: Psychology and Biology
Lecture VII: Animistic Psychology
Lecture VIII: Mechanistic and Biological Psychology
Lecture IX: Psychology an Independent Science
Lecture X: Defects in the Sciences
Lecture XI: The Need for Philosophy
Lecture XII: Biology and More Abstract Sciences
Lecture XIII: Biological and Physical Environment
Lecture XIV: Psychology and More Abstract Sciences
Lecture XV: Interest and Values
Lecture XVI: The Unity of Experience
Lecture XVII: Philosophy, Religion, and Theology
Lecture XVIII: The Belief in Immortality
Lecture XIX: The Sciences and Religion
Lecture XX: Retrospect
London
A. & C. Black, Ltd.
1929

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