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vharrison@um.edu.mo

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E21-4101a

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Mondays, 15:00-16:00

Thursdays, 15:00-16:00

Victoria HARRISON

Head of Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies

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Education

Victoria Harrison is a graduate of Heythrop College, University of London (BA hons 1990, PhD 1997).

Research Interests

Victoria Harrison’s main research interests are in analytic philosophy of religion and, within that, on the issues generated by religious diversity. She also has interests in classical Indian and Chinese philosophies.

Victoria Harrison’s doctoral research (University of London, 1997) focused on the epistemology of religious belief and, in particular, on the role of exemplars in the acquisition of belief. She continues to expand on this work and now applies it within a range of practical contexts involving intercultural and interreligious dialogue.

Her interests extend to the relationship between philosophy and material culture, and she is active in the developing field of the philosophy of museums. Victoria Harrison’s research in this area explores the philosophical dimensions of the ways in which museums represent objects of interreligious or intercultural significance.

She is interested in supervising postgraduate work in the philosophy of religion, intercultural philosophy, and in the area of philosophy and museums.

Current and recent research projects

Philosophy of Museums: Exploring the interface of philosophy and museums.

Sino-Muslim Philosophy in an Inter-Religious Perspective. MYRG2020-00201-FAH

Conversations that Matter: Exploring Community Ideals in Macao through “Exemplar Reasoning”. MYRG2019-00145-FAH

Global Philosophy of Religion in a Pluralist World. SYRG2016-00090-FAH

God, Time and Change.

Victoria Harrison is Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, where she holds a full professorship in Philosophy. She joined the University of Macau in 2016 from the University of Glasgow (2005-2016). Prior to that she taught Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder (2001-2004), Birkbeck College, University of London (1998-2001), the University of Notre Dame’s London Centre (1998-2001), and Kingston University (1997-2001). At Glasgow she was Reader in Philosophy and Director of the Forum for Philosophy and Religion. She has published widely on the philosophy of religion, intercultural philosophy, and Asian philosophies.

Victoria Harrison is currently Vice-President of the European Society for the Philosophy of Religion, having served as President from 2018-2022. She has also served on the executive committee of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion. She was also a member of the Templeton Cluster Group on Religious Diversity, based at the Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen, Frankfurt am Main. Victoria has served on the Board of Directors of the Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy (CEACOP), City University, Hong Kong. At City University, she was a core member of the project Eastern and Western Conceptions of Oneness, Virtue, and Human Happiness (funded by the John Templeton Foundation 2013-2018).

Victoria Harrison is the philosophy of religion editor for Philosophy Compass (Wiley-Blackwell) and a member of the Editorial Board of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. She serves on the Board of Associate Editors for the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion (Springer), and on the editorial boards of Religious Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion (Cambridge University Press) and  Zeitschritt für Theologie und Philosophie. She is also a member of the Advisory Board for The International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (Routledge). Since 2018 she has been a member of the Academic Advisory Board for the Jahrbuch Praktische Philosophie in globaler Perspektive (Rottendorf-Projekt).

  • Victoria S. Harrison and John Zhao (2023), ‘Buddhist Religious Epistemology’, in The Cambridge Handbook of Religious Epistemology, edited by Jonathan Fuqua, John Greco and Tyler Dalton McNabb (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Available September 2023.
  • Victoria S. Harrison and Tyler Dalton McNabb (eds) (2023), Philosophy and the Spiritual Life (London and New York: Routledge).
  • Victoria S. Harrison and Harriet A. Harris (eds) (2023), Atheisms: The philosophy of non-belief (London and New York: Routledge).
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2023), ‘Truth and Religious Pluralism’, Dialogue: A Journal of Religion & Philosophy 60: 11–15.
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2022), Eastern Philosophy of Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2021), ‘What if the Dead Are Never Really Dead?’, The Monist 104, 3: 337–351. https://doi.org/10.1093/monist/onab009
  • Victoria S Harrison (2021), ‘Introduction to the Special Issue “Religion in Museums”‘, Religions 12, 2. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12020139
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2020), ‘CoronaGothic: a Post-Mortem’, Critical Quarterly 62, 4: 74–76. DOI: 10.1111/criq.12583
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2020), ‘Religious Pluralism’. In Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy. Ed. Duncan Pritchard (New York: Oxford University Press). DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780195396577-0406
  • Victoria S. Harrison, Rhett Gayle (2020), ‘Self-transformation and Spiritual Exemplars’, European Journal for Philosophy of Religion. 12, 4: 9-26. https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v12i4.3520
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2020), ‘Conversations that Matter: Exploring Community Ideals in Macao’, in Fórum Internacional “Missão Cultural da Grande Baía Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau”: Colectânea, Governo de Região Administrativa Especial de Macau Direcção dos Serviços de Estudo de Polítìcas e Desenvolvimento Regional, pp. 373–377. ISBN9789998196612
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2020), ‘Realigning Philosophy and Wisdom in the 21st Century’, Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 112, 3: 325-340.
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2020), ‘Globale Philosophie und globale PhilosophInnen‘, in Religion und Pluralität, edited by Sebastian Gäb (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer), pp. 39-52.
  • Victoria S. Harrison, Philip Tonner (2020), ‘Philosophy of Museums’. In Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology. Ed. John Jackson (New York: Oxford University Press). DOI 10.1093/OBO/9780199766567-0241
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2020), ‘“Exemplar Reasoning” as a Tool for Constructive Conversation between Confucians and Catholics’, in Confucianism and Catholicism: Reinvigorating the Dialogue, edited by Michael Slater, Erin Cline and P.J. Ivanhoe (South Bend, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press), pp. 172-189.
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2020), ‘Global Philosophy of Religion(s)’, Religious Studies: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion 56, 1: 20-31. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412519000647
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2019), ‘Can Religious Diversity Help with the Problem of Religiously-motivated Violence?’, in Religious Truth and Identity in an Age of Plurality, edited by Peter Jonkers and Oliver J. Wiertz (London and New York: Routledge), pp. 264-280.
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2019), ‘Practical Questions Concerning Religious Diversity’, in Religious Truth and Identity in an Age of Plurality, edited by Peter Jonkers and Oliver J. Wiertz (London and New York: Routledge), pp. 202-209.
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2019), Eastern Philosophy: The Basics, 2nd edition, revised and expanded (London and New York: Routledge).
  • Victoria S. Harrison (ed) (2018), A History of Evil: 1900-1950, volume 5. General editors, Chad Meister and Charles Taliaferro. (London and New York: Routledge).
  • Victoria S. Harrison, Philip J. Ivanhoe, Owen Flanagan, Eric Schwitzgebel, and Hagop Sarkissian (eds) (2018), The Oneness Hypothesis: Beyond the Boundary of Self (New York: Columbia University Press).
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2018), ‘Oneness: A Big History Perspective’, in The Oneness Hypothesis: Beyond the Boundary of Self, edited by Philip J. Ivanhoe, Owen Flanagan, Victoria S. Harrison, Eric Schwitzgebel, and Hagop Sarkissian (New York: Columbia University Press), pp. 39-52.
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2018), ‘Imagination and the Lives of Others’, in Imagination and Philosophy, edited by Hans-Georg Moeller and Andrew Whitehead (London: Bloomsbury Academic), pp. 187-202.
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2018), ‘Conceptual Metaphors and the Sense of Knowing: East and West’, Revista Brasileira de Filosofia da Religião (Brazilian Journal for Philosophy of Religion), 4,2: 37-52.
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2018), ‘Holiness’ and ‘Hans Urs von Balthasar’, in A Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion, edited by Charles Taliaferro and Elsa J. Marty, 2nd edition (New York: Bloomsbury Academic), pp. 128–129 and 302–303.
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2017), ‘Mathematical Objects and the Object of Theology’, Religious Studies: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion 53: 479–496.
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2017), ‘Hans Urs von Balthasar’, in The Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology, edited by William J. Abraham and Frederick D. Aquino (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 535–547.
  • Victoria S. Harrison, Anna Bergqvist and Gary Kemp (eds) (2016), Philosophy and Museums: Essays in the Philosophy of Museums (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2016), ‘Conceptual Metaphors and the Goals of Philosophy’, in Wisdom and Philosophy, edited by Hans-Georg Moeller and Andrew Whitehead (London: Bloomsbury Academic), pp. 205–222.
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2015), ‘Religious Pluralism’, in The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion, edited by Graham Oppy (London and New York: Routledge), pp. 257–269.
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2015), ‘Seeing the Dao: Conceptual Metaphors and Philosophy of Religion’, Religious Studies: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion 51: 307–322.
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2013), Eastern Philosophy: The Basics (London and New York: Routledge).
  • Victoria S. Harrison, Charles Taliaferro and Stewart Goetz (eds) (2013), The Routledge Companion to Theism (London and New York: Routledge).
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2012), ‘An Internalist Pluralist Solution to the Problem of Religious and Ethical Diversity’, Sophia: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 51, 1: 71–86.
  • Victoria S. Harrison and Jake Chandler (eds) (2012), Probability in the Philosophy of Religion, edited with (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2011), ‘Philosophy of Religion, Fictionalism, and Religious Diversity’, The International Journal for Philosophy of Religion: 40th Anniversary Issue 68: 43–58.
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2011), ‘Embodied Values, Reason, and Muslim-Christian Dialogue: “Exemplar Reasoning” as a Model for Inter-Religious Conversations’, Studies in Interreligious Dialogue 21: 20-35.
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2007), Religion and Modern Thought (London: SCM).
  • Victoria S. Harrison (2000), The Apologetic Value of Human Holiness, Studies in Philosophy and Religion, volume 21 (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic).

Victoria S. Harrison’s Thematic Bibliography