Arguing for atheism an introduction to the philosophy of religion. Its not just that commonsense demands we resist any attempts to revise our everyday. Can we learn anything about the metaphysical nature of time from considering our mental representation of it. He gives a vivid sense of the difficulties raised by our ordinary ideas about space and time, but he also gives us the basis to think about these problems independently, avoiding large amounts of. Yes, to say that god is a necessary being is something that really, really requires quite, quite a lot, a lot of our unpacking.
Argues that agnosticism is not confined to the religious sphere, but something we encounter in science and ethics. Robin le poidevin born 1962 is a professor of metaphysics at the university of leeds whose interests include the nature and experience of time, agnosticism. The international contributors broaden this debate by demonstrating the importance of questions about the nature of time for philosophical issues in ethics, aesthetics. These are just some of the questions that robin le poidevin considers in this very short introduction. Robin le poidevin is a professor of metaphysics at the university of leeds whose special interests include agnosticism, philosophy of religion and metaphysics. Robin le poidevin is professor of metaphysics at the university of leeds. Robin le poidevin provides a clear, witty, and stimulating introduction to these deep questions, and many other mindboggling puzzles and paradoxes. These are just some of the questions that robin le poidevin considers in this very short introduction, as he sets the philosophical case for agnosticism and explores it as a historical and cultural.
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Agnosticism and christianity and other essays download. I am grateful to the editor for permission to reuse some of the material of that article. Pdf the images of timerobin le poidevin craig bourne. The third and final metaphysical issue that we will discuss in the context of time perception concerns causal asymmetry. Robin le poidevin took a first degree in philosophy and psychology at oxford university, and went on to postgraduate research at cambridge university. Cambridge core philosophy of religion religious fictionalism by robin le poidevin. Ebook nonfiction philosophy religion philosophy general robin le poidevin. This cited by count includes citations to the following articles in scholar. Argues that agnosticism is not confined to the religious sphere, but something we encounter in. He is now professor metaphysics at leeds univeristy, and the author of a number of books and articles on.
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Robin le poidevin examines how we perceive time and change, the means by which memory links us with the past, the attempt to represent change and movement in art, and the nature of fictional time. Robin le poidevin is professor of metaphysics at the university of leeds whose interests include the nature and experience of time, agnosticism, and philosophy of religion. Pdf the images of time robin le poidevin craig bourne. A very short introduction asks if there is more to agnosticism than merely the absence of belief. Agnosticism emerges here as a much more sophisticated, and much more interesting, attitude than a simple failure to either commit to, or. The ones marked may be different from the article in the profile. Other books by robin le poidevin arguing for atheism. In arguing for atheism, robin le poidevin addresses the question of whether theism the view that there is a personal, transcendent creator of the universe solves the deepest mysteries of existence. Search for more papers by this author robin le poidevin. Robin le poidevin has 12 books on goodreads with 1589 ratings.
Questions of time and tense robin le poidevin oxford. It is hard to reconcile this with the direct theory of perception. Philosophers have argued against the reality of much that makes up our ordinary world view. Arguing for atheism pdf robin le poidevin arguing for atheism an introduction to the philosophy of religion. Review robin le poidevin the images of time ian phillips. Review of robin le poidevin s arguing for atheism 1997 finngeir hiorth. Robin le poidevin arguing for atheism an introduction to. Images of time pdf robin le poidevin images of time an essay on temporal representation. In a billiardball world of newtonian science, causation was obviousthings had to touch each other in space and a cause always had to precede an effect. Le poidevins project is to find an account of truthmakers for perceptual beliefs that does satisfy ctmp, since this is a virtue insofar as ctmp is independently. Challenges the conception of agnosticism, arguing that it is a respectable position to take. He joined the department of philosophy at leeds after a year as gifford research fellow at st andrews and having completed postgraduate studies at both oxford and cambridge.
This is the first introductory anthology on the subject to appear for many years. Agnosticism is something we encounter in science and ethics and should be considered as an historical and cultural phenomenon. An introduction to the philosophy of religion by robin le poidevin. What emerges is a much more sophisticated, and much more interesting, attitude than a simple failure to either commit to, or reject, religious belief. Robin le poidevin born 1962 is a professor of metaphysics at the university of leeds whose. Robin le poidevin images of time an essay on temporal. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. Can a painting or photograph represent movement and the passage of time.
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