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title: "Peter Watson"
date: "2014-06-16T00:00:00+01:00"
modified: "2014-06-16T00:00:00+01:00"
url: "https://newhumanist.org.uk/contributors/peter-watson/"
post_id: 3859
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# Peter Watson

Peter Watson is an intellectual historian and the author of books including *A Terrible Beauty: The People and Ideas that Shaped the Modern Mind* and *The Age of Nothing: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God* (both Weidenfeld & Nicolson)