Peter Harrison
@uqpharri
Professorial Research Fellow, University of Notre Dame, Australia; Emeritus Professor, UQ. Intellectual History, History of Science, Science & Religion
Timely arrival this afternoon. It's publication day for the paperback.
Revisiting this excellent episode of @TheHPSPodcast with the Lorraine Daston & Peter Harrison. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the…
Read an essay on this book by @uqpharri here: churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/scien…
Timely arrival this afternoon. It's publication day for the paperback.
U of Chicago is going to merge humanities departments and downscale its language offerings in part because...the institution spent too much money on construction projects. Its endowment: over $10 billion. Are there any leaders in higher ed who *want* to save the humanities?
The Division of the Arts & Humanities is considering consolidating its 15 departments into eight, reducing language instruction, and establishing minimum class and program sizes, citing new federal policies and shifts in the “underlying financial models” for higher education.
After a mere seven years in the making, The Cultural History of Magic is finally here!! #earlymodern #twitterstorians
“It was a very heated response, and one that reflected immense ignorance” fivebooks.com/best-books/wor…
It's 2025, a century since the publication of John Dewey's "Experience and Nature," which many (including me) see as his best book. Was just reminded via other social media of a review I wrote in 2015 that praised D's book, with comparisons to Heidegger (link in 3rd)🧵1/
Natüralizmin Doğuşu – Peter Harrison onculanalitikfelsefe.com/naturalizmin-d… @FelsefeOncul aracılığıyla
Exciting new book on Cartesianism, featuring @laurenamdouglas (😍), @annaortin and others! Find out why the facile “criticisms” of Cartesianism you were taught as an undergrad were reductive and dogmatic. routledge.com/Cartesianism-a…
If there were EVER a representation of greatness, the career, the bowler he is and the person - this is it!!! Absolute clinic. 🙌🏽👏🏽 #WIvAUS @ausmencricket
ONE OF THE GREAT OVERS!!! 😍 In his 100th Test, Mitchell Starc takes THREE WICKETS in the FIRST OVER, as Australia look to defend 203 to win. Catch every ball of Australia’s tour of the West Indies live on ESPN on #disneyplusau / #disneyplusnz 📺
This will be great, situating Kant in the context of the competing confessional commitments of his age.
Everything the intellectual Ian Hunter writes I always find very interesting. Here's his forthcoming book titled: "The Kantian Religion" "A historical inquiry into Kantian philosophy as a form of philosophical religion" press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…
Harrison describes how the rhetoric of technological salvation has become a kind of secular liturgy, promising transcendence through the latest innovations. --James Ungureanu hubs.la/Q03w_Hg00
Cuts to the humanities are a risk to the national interest, according to the Academy. futurecampus.com.au/2025/07/13/hum…
Now on FirstView: Why do we care about the Enlightenment? Sylvana Tomaselli @sylvana_st reflects on the Enlightenment we want in her review essay of J.C.D. Clark’s The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History and Richard Whatmore’s The End of Enlightenment bit.ly/4kLQlKC
The Origin of the Research University—Asterisk asteriskmag.com/issues/10/the-…
Very much enjoyed this conversation with @trippfuller, now on YouTube. youtu.be/gv-yCTPTeTA?si…