Medawar Lecture Explained

The Medawar Lecture was an annual lecture on the philosophy of science organised by the Royal Society of London in memory of Sir Peter Medawar. It was last delivered in 2004 after which it was merged with the Wilkins Lecture and the Bernal Lecture to form the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture.[1]

List of lecturers

YearNameLectureNotes
1986 A new interpretation of Darwinism.[2]
1990 The new transitional structure of basic science: prospects and apprehensions.
1992 Species adaptation in a protein molecule.
1995 Post-academic science.
1998 Is science dangerous?
2001 Knowledge for vision: vision for knowledge.
2004 The truth about science

References

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The 2010 Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture. The Royal Society. 14 August 2010.
  2. Niemann, Hans-Joachim: Karl Popper and the Two New Secrets of Life: Including Karl Popper's Medawar Lecture 1986 and Three Related Texts Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014. .