• DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511487750.002
Corpus ID: 171151835

The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science

@inproceedings{Harrison2007TheFO,
  title={The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science},
  author={P. Harrison},
  year={2007}
}

• P. Harrison
• Published 2007
• History, Philosophy

Peter Harrison provides an account of the religious foundations of scientific knowledge. He shows how the approaches to the study of nature that emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were directly informed by theological discussions about the Fall of Man and the extent to which the mind and the senses had been damaged by that primeval event. Scientific methods, he suggests, were originally devised as techniques for ameliorating the cognitive damage wrought by human sin. At its… Expand

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