Robin Le Poidevin (born 1962) is EmeritusProfessor ofMetaphysics at theUniversity of Leeds,^[1] whose special interests includeagnosticism,philosophy of religion,metaphysics, andphilosophy of space and time.

Le Poidevin was educated atRepton School andOriel College Oxford, where he graduated with aB.A. (1984, converted toM.A., 1988) inPsychology andPhilosophy. He took aPh.D. in Philosophy atEmmanuel College, Cambridge (1989). He was Gifford Research Fellow inLogic and Metaphysics at theUniversity of St Andrews, 1988-89. He was appointed to a lectureship in Philosophy at theUniversity 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 ofReligious Studies,^[4] and is a past President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion.^[5]

Le Poidevin has defended bothagnosticism^[6] and religious fictionalism^[7] in his writings on religion, and theB-theory oftime (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]

• 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

• 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)^[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:
  • Robin Le Poidevin (University of Leeds) - PhilPeople
  • Robin Le Poidevin - Google Scholar

• Robin Le Poidevin homepage on the Leeds University website

• 1962 births
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• 20th-century British philosophers
• 21st-century British philosophers
• Academics of the University of Leeds
• Atheist philosophers
• British atheists
• British critics of religions
• Metaphysicians
• British philosophers of religion
• Philosophers of time
• Rationalists

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