Speaker: Peter Harrison

Peter Harrison is the Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Harris Manchester College. He has published extensively in the area of cultural and intellectual history with a focus on the philosophical, scientific and religious thought of the early modern period.

His publications include 'Religion' and the Religions in the English Enlightenment (Cambridge, 1990), The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science (Cambridge, 1998), The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science (Cambridge, 2007) and over 50 book chapters and journal articles.

Peter Harrison read for bachelors degrees in Science and Arts at the University of Queensland before taking up up a scholarship at Yale University to study philosophy and religion. His PhD, from the University of Queensland, is in religious history. Formerly Professor of History and Philosophy at Bond University, he has been a Visiting Fellow at Oxford, Yale, and Princeton. He is a founding member of the International Society for Science and Religion and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

In 2003, he was awarded a Centenary Medal for his contributions to Philosophy and Religion.

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