Series 5 - Addresses

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Professor Goudge was much in demand as a speaker, with invitations coming from student clubs and organizers of special lecture series, and conferences, and other academic gatherings. The notes for and drafts of addresses, some with covering correspondence, in this series are representative rather than a complete record of the formal and informal talks he gave over a period of more than fifty years.

The first two files consist of "philosophical papers" read to clubs and groups between 1934 and 1977. Except for the talks he gave at the Huntsman Royal Lunch Club at the University of Toronto (1963-1988), the remaining addresses are filed in chronological order. Those that were delivered on several occasions are filed under the date of the earliest presentation. The most popular ones were on various aspects of evolution and include titles such as "ethics and evolution: a reappraisal" (1964-66), "genetic fallacy" (1965), and "on formalizing evolutionary theory" (1972). The papers presented at conferences were often published, the printed version of which may be found in Series V.

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