Science, Religion and Philosophy
Professor Peter Harrison’s research focuses on the interactions of philosophy, science and religion in the early modern period. He is currently working on a series of funded projects, including:
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- Evolution and Progress: An Uneasy Symbiosis - A Public Lecture by Professor Michael Ruse (FSU) - Monday 17 June 2013
- Public lecture - Professor Paul Davies
- ARC grant application workshop for Cultural Studies projects 2013 - Monday December 10 2012
- BrisScience - UQ Research Week public lecture - Professor Peter Harrison (UQ)
- CHED Seminar Series 2013 - Semester 1
- Go8 European Fellowship
- Grant from The Faraday Institute, Cambridge
- Intellectual History and modernity - 'Early Modern Science and the Virtues of the Mind' Dr Sorana Corneanu (Bucharest)
- Intellectual History and Modernity - 'Philosophy and/or Science: the Physics in Metaphysics and the Metaphysics in Physics' Associate Professor Phil Dowe (HPRC)
- Intellectual History and Modernity - 'Science, Religion and the 18th Century Alantic Republic of letters' Dr Sarah Irving (UWS)
- Intellectual History and Modernity - Semester 2 Seminar Series 2012
- Ludwig Hirschfield Mack Visiting Chair
- Narratives of Secularisation - The History of Political Thought as Secular Genealogy: The Case of Liberty in Early Modern England - Professor Conal Condren (UNSW)
- Narratives of Secularization - 'Is Secularity Possible?' - Prof Simon During (UQ) - Thursday 6 June 2013
- Narratives of Secularization - 'Public Reason Liberalism' - Prof Jerry Gaus (Arizona) - Thursday May 23, 2013
- Narratives of Secularization - 'Secularization: Cartographic Sketches of a Modern Combat Concept' - Ian Hunter (CHED) - Thursday May 9, 2013
- Narratives of Secularization - 'The Historical Jesus in Victorian Britain: J. R. Seeley and the Controversy of Ecce Homo' - Ian Hesketh (CHED)
- Public Seminar Series 2012 'The Two Cultures' - May 17 2012, Dr Elizabeth Stephens (UQ)
- Symposium - The Art and Science of Synthetic Biology: Critical and Creative Perspectives on 'New Life' - Thursday 22nd November
- The University of Oxford has awarded a DLitt to Prof. Peter Harrison, the Centre's Director.
- Two grants awarded from The Historical Society, Boston
- Visiting Fellowship at Clare College Cambridge UK
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- Philip Almond, The Lancashire Witches: A Chronicle of Sorcery and Death on Pendle Hill (I.B. Taurus, 2012)
- Simon During, Against Democracy: Literary Experiences in the Era of Emancipation (Fordham University Press, 2012)
- Peter Hallward and Knox Peden (eds), Concept and Form, vol 1: Key Texts from the Cahiers pour l’Analyse (Verso, 2012)
- Peter Hallward and Knox Peden (eds), Concept and Form, vol 2: Interviews and Essays on the Cahiers pour l’Analyse (Verso, 2012)
- Gary Ianziti, Writing History in Renaissance Italy: Leonardo Bruni and the Uses of the Past (Harvard, 2012)
- Michael Ostling, Between the Devil and the Host: Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland (Oxford, 2012)
- Ian Hesketh, The Science of History in Victorian Britain (Pickering & Chatto, 2011)
- Peter Harrison, Ronald L. Numbers, and Michael H. Shank (eds), Wrestling with Nature: From Omens to Science (Chicago, 2011)
- Elizabeth Stephens, Anatomy as Spectacle: Public Exhibitions of the Body from 1700 to the Present (Liverpool, 2011)
- Peter Cryle and Alison Moore, Frigidity: An Intellectual History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
- Philip Almond, England's First Demonologist: Reginald Scot and 'The Discoverie of Witchcraft' (I.B. Tauris, 2011)
- Shaunnagh Dorsett and Ian Hunter (eds), Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought (Palgrave Macmillan 2010)
- Peter Harrison (ed), Cambridge Companion to Science and Religion (CUP, 2010)
- Ian Hesketh, Of Apes and Ancestors: Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate (Toronto, 2009)
- Elizabeth Stephens, Queer Writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet's Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
- Simon During, Exit Capitalism: Literary Culture, Theory and Post-Secular Modernity (Routledge, 2009)
- Peter Cryle and Christopher Forth (eds), Sexuality at the Fin de Siècle (University of Delaware Press, 2008)
- Philip Almond, The Witches of Warboys (I.B. Taurus, 2008)
- Ian Hunter, The Secularisation of the Confessional State: The Political Thought of Christian Thomasius (CUP, 2007)
- Peter Harrison, The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science (CUP, 2007)
- Ian Hunter,Thomas Ahnert, and Frank Grunert (ed and trans), Christian Thomasius: Essays on Church, State, and Politics (Liberty Fund, 2007)
- Conal Condren, Stephen Gaukroger, and Ian Hunter (eds), The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe (CUP, 2006)
- Philip Almond, Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern England (CUP, 2004)
- Ian Hunter, Rival Enlightenments: Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany (CUP, 2001)
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