Darwin Day Lecture 2008

2008 February 12, Darwin Lecture Theatre, University College London

In 2008 the Darwin Day Lecture was again chaired by Richard Dawkins. The lecture was given by Tim Lewens, entitled "Darwin: A Philosophical Naturalist?"

Tim Lewens is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. His research interests embrace the philosophy of biology and he is the author of Darwin (Routledge, 2007), a critically acclaimed "philosophical introduction to Darwin" and the subject of the lecture. His most recent book is Risk: Philosophical Perspectives (Routledge, 2007).

BHA Chair, Robert Ashby, introduced the occasion and Chief Executive of the BHA, Hanne Stinson, thanked the Chair and the speaker as an afterword.

MP3 audio files are available below of Dawkins's introduction and Lewens's lecture as well as the Q&A session which followed.

(Please note that the speech is satisfactorily audible but the quality is varied.)