Robin Le Poidevin
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
[edit]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]
Publications
[edit]Books
[edit]- Change, Cause and Contradiction: A Defence of the Tenseless Theory of Time, London: Macmillan, 1991. ISBN 978-0333542866
- Arguing for Atheism: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion, London: Routledge, 1996. ISBN 978-0415093385
- Travels in Four Dimensions: The Enigmas of Space and Time, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0198752554
- The Images of Time: An Essay on Temporal Representation, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0199575510
- Agnosticism: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0199575268
- Religious Fictionalism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1108558198
- And Was Made Man: Mind, Metaphysics and Incarnation, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. ISBN 978-0199676576
Edited Volumes
[edit]- The Philosophy of Time (co-edited with Murray MacBeath), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN 9780198239994
- Questions of Time and Tense, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 9780199250462
- Being: Developments in Contemporary Metaphysics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN 9780521735445
- The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics (co-edited with Peter Simons, Ross Cameron and Andrew McGonigal, London: Routledge, 2009. ISBN 9780415396318
Essays (selected)
[edit]- The Experience and Perception of Time (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)[9]
- ‘Why I am Agnostic’, in Mark Lamport, ed, The Rowman and Littlefield Handbook of Philosophy and Religion, Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022.[10]
- For a fuller list, see:
References
[edit]- ^ "Robin Le Poidevin (University of Leeds) - PhilPeople". philpeople.org. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
- ^ "Cambridge University Reporter Special". www.admin.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
- ^ University, Durham. "Alan Richardson Fellowship - Durham University". www.durham.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
- ^ "Editorial board". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
- ^ "Committee - The British Society for the Philosophy of Religion". www.thebspr.org. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
- ^ Le Poidevin, Robin (28 October 2010). Agnosticism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-957526-8.
- ^ Le Poidevin, Robin (2019). Religious Fictionalism. Elements in the Philosophy of Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-45747-7.
- ^ Poidevin, Robin Le; Poidevin, Robin Le (22 October 2009). The Images of Time: An Essay on Temporal Representation. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-957551-0.
- ^ "The Experience and Perception of Time". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. 2019.
- ^ The Rowman and Littlefield Handbook of Philosophy and Religion.
