Errol E. Harris is widely recognized for his innovative neo-Hegelian approach to problems in the philosophy and history of science and the philosophy of nature. His career serves as a connecting link between British neo-Hegelianism of the early twentieth century and the resurgent Hegelianism of the last decades of the twentieth century in North America, Britain, and Europe. He is best known for exploring the philosophical implications of modern scientific theory. The dialectical and holistic conception of nature and of the relationship of the mind to nature discerned by Harris in the results of contemporary science is strongly reminiscent of the thought of the nineteenth-century German idealist philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Harris has also been an influential contributor to the interpretation of Hegel's philosophy, as well as that of the seventeenth-century Dutch rationalist Baruch Spinoza. In the 1930s, when scarcely any attention was being paid by scholars...