Robin Le Poidevin

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{{Cite web |title=Cambridge University Reporter Special |url=https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2007-08/weekly/6085/5.html |access-date=2022-12-18 |website=www.admin.cam.ac.uk}} and the 2012 Alan Richardson Fellow in Theology at the University of Durham.{{Cite web |last=University |first=Durham |title=Alan Richardson Fellowship - Durham University |url=https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/theology-religion/about-us/alan-richardson-fellowship/ |access-date=2022-12-18 |website=www.durham.ac.uk |language=en-gb}} From 2010 to 2015 he was Editor of Religious Studies,{{Cite web |title=Editorial board |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/religious-studies/information/about-this-journal/editorial-board |access-date=2022-12-18 |website=Cambridge Core |language=en}} and is a past President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion.{{Cite web |title=Committee - The British Society for the Philosophy of Religion |url=http://www.thebspr.org/committee/ |access-date=2022-12-18 |website=www.thebspr.org |language=en}}

Le Poidevin has defended both agnosticism{{Cite book |last=Le Poidevin |first=Robin |url=https://academic.oup.com/book/588 |title=Agnosticism: A Very Short Introduction |date=2010-10-28 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-957526-8 |language=en}} and religious fictionalism{{Cite book |last=Le Poidevin |first=Robin |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/religious-fictionalism/7EE38C3F263074337C713EA6ABED2B2E |title=Religious Fictionalism |date=2019 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-45747-7 |series=Elements in the Philosophy of Religion |location=Cambridge}} in his writings on religion, and the B-theory of time (which denies the reality of temporal passage) in his writings on metaphysics.{{Cite book |last1=Poidevin |first1=Robin Le |url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-images-of-time-9780199575510?cc=gb&lang=en& |title=The Images of Time: An Essay on Temporal Representation |last2=Poidevin |first2=Robin Le |date=2009-10-22 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-957551-0 |location=Oxford, New York}}

In 2025 he was approved for award of the degree of Doctor of Letters (Litt.D.) by the University of Cambridge.{{Cite web |title=Approved for degrees - Cambridge University Reporter 6769 |url=https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2024-25/weekly/6769/section2.shtml |url-access=subscription |access-date=2025-02-12 |website=Cambridge University Reporter}}

• Change, Cause and Contradiction: A Defence of the Tenseless Theory of Time, London: Macmillan, 1991. {{ISBN|978-0333542866}}
• [https://archive.org/details/ArguingForAtheismRobinLePoidevin 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}}

• 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

• The Experience and Perception of Time (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy){{Cite journal |last=Le Poidevin |first=Robin |date=2000-08-28 |title=The Experience and Perception of Time |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archIves/sum2020/entries/time-experience/ |journal=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy}}
• ‘Why I am Agnostic’, in Mark Lamport, ed, The Rowman and Littlefield Handbook of Philosophy and Religion, Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022.{{Cite book |url=https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538141281/The-Rowman-and-Littlefield-Handbook-of-Philosophy-and-Religion |title=The Rowman and Littlefield Handbook of Philosophy and Religion |language=en-us}}
• For a fuller list, see:
• [https://philpeople.org/profiles/robin-le-poidevin Robin Le Poidevin (University of Leeds) - PhilPeople]
• [https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=uFVZ-b4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Robin Le Poidevin - Google Scholar]

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• [https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/86/robin-le-poidevin Robin Le Poidevin homepage on the Leeds University website]

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