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Peter D. Harrison FAHA (born 1955) is Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy at the University of Queensland and a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, Australia.
Peter Harrison is an Australian Laureate Fellow and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. Previously, he was the Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion and Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre at the University of Oxford.
Peter Harrison (born 25 May 1966) is a British businessman, and the chief executive (CEO) of Schroders, [1] a British multinational investment management company.
Prof. Peter Harrison is an Australian historian and philosopher who challenges the myth of a perennial conflict between science and Christianity. He discusses the complex and interdependent relationship between science and religion in the West, and his views on evolution, secularism, and the New Atheism.
Mar 13, 2020 · Peter Harrison, a leading scholar of science and religion, discusses the historical and cultural significance of science in an interview with The Marginalia Review. He explores how science gained legitimacy and authority by appealing to religious values, and how it later became independent and secular.
In The Territories of Science and Religion, Harrison dismantles what we think we know about the two categories, then puts it all back together again in a provocative, productive new way.
Peter Harrison is a professor and director at the University of Queensland, and a former professor at Oxford. He has published widely on the intellectual history of the early modern period, especially the relations between science and religion, and won the Aldersgate Prize in 2016.
