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USC Templeton Fellow Lecture #5

Sponsored by College of Letters, Arts, & Sciences

Tue, April 5, 2005 from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm

Admission: Free

Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM)
101
University Park Campus

Michael Ruse, a professor of philosophy at Florida State University and a scholar of the history and philosophy of evolutionary theory, discusses change and innovation in the arts.

With funding from the Metanexus Institute, USC has selected Ruse as the 2005 Templeton Research Fellow.

Ruse has written many books on and around the history and philosophy of Darwinian evolutionary theory. These include “The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw,” “Can a Darwinian be a Christian? The Relationship between Science and Religion” and “Darwin and Design: Does Evolution have a Purpose?”

Ruse is a former Guggenheim Fellow, Killam Fellow, and Gifford Lecturer at Glasgow University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

 

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