Peter Harrison
Peter Harrison
Formerly Professor of History and Philosophy
Bond University
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Formerly Professor of History and Philosophy
BA
BSc
MA (Yale)
PhD (University of Qld)
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA)
Current Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Harris Manchester College.
Peter Harrison studied Science and Arts at the University of Queensland before moving to the United States to take up a scholarship at Yale University to study philosophy and religion. On returning to Australia, he completed his PhD at the University of Queensland. He joined Bond University in its foundation year, 1989, and is currently Philosophy co-ordinator.
Peter Harrison has published extensively in the area of cultural and intellectual history, with a particular focus on the philosophical, scientific and religious thought of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. He is the author of 'Religion' and the Religions in the English Enlightenment (Cambridge, 1990) and The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science (Cambridge, 1998). He is a Research Consultant in the Department of Studies in Religion at the University of Queensland, and has been a Visiting Fellow at Oxford, Yale, and Princeton. He is a founding member of the International Society for Science and Religion and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. In 2003, Prof. Harrison was awarded a Centenary Medal for 'Service to Australian Society and the Humanities in the study of Philosophy and Religion'.
His current research is focused mainly upon early-modern thought, and in particular on the interplay between scientific, philosophical, and religious ideas in the period from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.
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