Robin Le Poidevin

Tel: +44 (0)113 343 3267
Email: R.D.LePoidevin@leeds.ac.uk

Robin joined the Department in 1989, after a year as Gifford Research Fellow at St Andrews and postgradate work at Cambridge. From 1998 to 2001 he was Head of Department, and in 2000 was appointed to a personal chair in Metaphysics. He is a member of the Centre for Metaphysics and Mind and is on the board of the Analysis Trust, the editorial Board of Religious Studies, and is President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion. In autumn 2007 he gave the Stanton Lectures in the Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge, during which time he was Senior Visitor at Emmanuel College.

Research Interests
* Metaphysics: time, space, causality, identity
* Epistemology: perception, memory, perspectival representations
* Philosophy of Religion: metaphysics of Christian doctrine, non-realist approaches to religion

Selected Publications
* The Images of Time: An Essay on Temporal Representation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
* 'Identity and the Composite Christ: an Incarnational dilemma', Religious Studies Vol. 45, 2009, pp. 167-86
* 'Space, Supervenience and Substantivalism', Analysis 64 (2004), 191–98
*Travels in Four Dimensions (Oxford: OUP, 2003)

Downloadable versions of papers freely available via White Rose Research Online.

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