Robin Le Poidevin
Template:Use dmy dates Robin Le Poidevin (born 1962) is Emeritus Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Leeds,[1] whose special interests include agnosticism, philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and philosophy of space and time.
Biography
Le Poidevin was educated at Repton School and Oriel College Oxford, where he graduated with a B.A. (1984, converted to M.A., 1988) in Psychology and Philosophy. He took a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1989). He was Gifford Research Fellow in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of St Andrews, 1988-89. He was appointed to a lectureship in Philosophy at the University of Leeds in 1989, where he taught until 2022. He was the 2007 Stanton Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge[2] and the 2012 Alan Richardson Fellow in Theology at the University of Durham.[3] From 2010 to 2015 he was Editor of Religious Studies,[4] and is a past President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion.[5]
Le Poidevin has defended both agnosticism[6] and religious fictionalism[7] in his writings on religion, and the B-theory of time (which denies the reality of temporal passage) in his writings on metaphysics.[8]
In 2025 he was approved for award of the degree of Doctor of Letters (Litt.D.) by the University of Cambridge.[9]
Publications
Books
- Change, Cause and Contradiction: A Defence of the Tenseless Theory of Time, London: Macmillan, 1991. Template:ISBN
- Arguing for Atheism: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion, London: Routledge, 1996. Template:ISBN
- Travels in Four Dimensions: The Enigmas of Space and Time, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Template:ISBN
- The Images of Time: An Essay on Temporal Representation, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Template:ISBN
- Agnosticism: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Template:ISBN
- Religious Fictionalism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Template:ISBN
- And Was Made Man: Mind, Metaphysics and Incarnation, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Template:Isbn
Edited Volumes
- The Philosophy of Time (co-edited with Murray MacBeath), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Template:Isbn
- Questions of Time and Tense, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Template:Isbn
- Being: Developments in Contemporary Metaphysics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Template:Isbn
- The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics (co-edited with Peter Simons, Ross Cameron and Andrew McGonigal, London: Routledge, 2009. ISBN 9780415396318
Essays (selected)
- The Experience and Perception of Time (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)[10]
- ‘Why I am Agnostic’, in Mark Lamport, ed, The Rowman and Littlefield Handbook of Philosophy and Religion, Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022.[11]
- For a fuller list, see:
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