James A. Harris | |
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Born | James Anthony Harris 1968 |
Education | University of Oxford (PhD) |
Era | 21st-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
Institutions | University of St Andrews |
Doctoral advisor | Galen Strawson, Ralph C. S. Walker |
Main interests | British philosophy |
James A. Harris, FRSE (born 1968) is a British philosopher and professor of the history of philosophy at the University of St Andrews. He is known for his works on the history of British philosophy and, in particular, on the philosophy of David Hume. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Harris has written the most recent intellectual biography of David Hume. His short Hume: A Very Short Introduction (2021) has superseded the previous Oxford short introduction on the same topic written by British philosopher A. J. Ayer (1980). [6] Unlike Ayer's introduction, Harris' work focuses on morality, religion, and politics in Hume.
In 2019, Harris was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Harris gave the Benedict Lectures in the History of Political Philosophy at Brown University in 2018 [7] and the British Society for the History of Philosophy Annual Lecture in 2021. [8]