Jonathan Harrison published his first paper in 1950.  He is still writing from his home in Cambridge today.  Here you will find some of his most up-to-date and previously unpublished work, as well as details of his philosophical writing over the last six decades.

He was born in Liverpool in 1924, and brought up in Wells, in Somerset, where he went to the local school. From there he went to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he became scholar and subsequently senior scholar. He got a first in P.P.E. in 1950. His first job was at what was then called the Durham Colleges in the University of Durham. He was appointed to a lectureship and then a senior lectureship at the University of Edinburgh in 1960. He was appointed to the chair of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham in 1964, and retired in 1988. While at Nottingham he spent a couple of terms at Northwestern University. He retired to Cambridge, where he still lives. His first wife, by whom he had four children, died in 1969.