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Peter Harrison

Professor Emeritus Peter Harrison

  • Post Nominals: FAHA
  • Fellow Type: Fellow
  • Elected to the Academy: 1998
  • Section(s): Religion, Philosophy And History Of Ideas, History

Biography

Peter Harrison is a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, Australia and Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy at the University of Queensland. He has been an Australian Laureate Fellow and before this served as the Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford.  He has written extensively on the philosophical, scientific and religious thought of the early modern period. His twelve books include The Territories of Science and Religion (Chicago, 2015), based on his Gifford Lectures, and most recently Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age (Cambridge, 2024).

Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.