Peter Harrisonis an Australian Laureate Fellow and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. Former Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford, he is author of numerous publications including, most recently, The Territories of Science and Religion (Chicago, 2015), based on his 2011 Gifford Lectures.
The Shifting Territories of Science and Religion
Speaker(s): Peter Harrison
Date: Spring 2019
Length: 1h21mins
Product ID: RGDL4902N
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Discussions of science and religion typically assume it is a relatively simple matter to establish clear boundaries for what counts as science and what counts as religion. Indeed, the idea that we can meaningfully discuss this relationship at allĀ - whether it is conceived in positive or negative termsĀ - relies to a large extent on our capacity to demarcate science and religion from other activities. In this lecture I suggest that the concepts "religion" and "science" are essentially modern inventions that often fail to capture the essence of the activities as they are conducted in practice.
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