Prof Peter Harrison FAHA
Research Professor
University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia
Biography
Peter Harrison is an Australian Laureate Fellow and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. He was educated at the University of Queensland and Yale University. Before coming to UQ he was the Idreos Professor of Science and Religion and Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre at the University of Oxford. He has published extensively in the area of intellectual history with a focus on the philosophical, scientific and religious thought of the early modern period. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Yale and Princeton, is a founding member of the International Society for Science and Religion, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. In 2011 he delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh.He has published over 70 articles and book chapters, and his six books include, most recently, The Territories of Science and Religion (Chicago, 2015).
Honoraria Titles
Major Prizes
Publications
The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science,
Cambridge University Press 2007
www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521875592
The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science,
Cambridge University Press 1998, paperback, 2001
www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521000963
'Religion' and the Religions in the English Enlightenment,
Cambridge University Press 1990, paperback, 2002
www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521892933
The Cambridge Companion to Science an Religion
Cambridge University Press 2010
http://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Companion-Science-Religion-Companions/dp/0521712513/ref=sr_2_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1328786719&sr=8-1
Wrestling with Nature: From Omens to Science
University of Chicago Press 2011
Co-authors: MIchael H Shank and Ronald L. Numbers
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226317838/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_g14_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1TZJ8A7DN8N80CDGYGTF&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846
The Territories of Science and Religion
University of Chicago Press 2015
http://www.amazon.com/Territories-Science-Religion-Peter-Harrison/dp/022618448X/ref=sr_2_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1413893531&sr=8-1&keywords=Peter+HArrison+The+Territories+of+Science+and+Religion
