Graham Oppy
Graham Oppy | |
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| Born | 6 October 1960 |
| Alma mater | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
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| Thesis | Attitude Problems[1](1990) |
| Doctoral advisor | Gilbert Harman |
Main interests | |
Notable ideas | "The best argument against God" (whilenaturalismis simpler thantheism,there is no relevant data that naturalism fails to explain at least as well as theism does)[2] |
Graham Robert Oppy(born 1960) is an Australian philosopher whose main area of research is thephilosophy of religion.He is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of Research atMonash University,CEO of theAustralasian Association of Philosophy,Chief Editor of theAustralasian Philosophical Review,Associate Editor of theAustralasian Journal of Philosophy,and is on the editorial boards ofPhilo,Philosopher's Compass,Religious Studies,andSophia.[3]He was elected Fellow of theAustralian Academy of the Humanitiesin 2009.[4]Oppy is considered by some philosophers (includingWilliam Lane CraigandEdward Feser) to be the most formidable defender ofatheismliving today.[5]
Biography
[edit]Graham Oppy was born inBenallaon 6 October 1960 to aMethodistfamily, but he ceased to be areligious believeras a young teenager,[6]and is now anatheist.[7]His family moved toBallaratin 1965 and had his secondary schooling atWesley College, Melbourne.[8]He attendedMelbourne Universityfrom 1979, where he completed two degrees: a BA (Hons) in philosophy and a BSc in mathematics. In 1987 he started graduate work atPrinceton Universityunder the supervision ofGilbert Harmanon questions in thephilosophy of language.[6]
He was a lecturer at theUniversity of Wollongongfrom 1990 to 1992 and after doing apost-docat theAustralian National University,he moved to Monash as a senior lecturer, and was promoted to professor in 2005. He is currently Associate Dean of Research (since 2004) and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University.[6]
Books
[edit]- Ontological Arguments and Belief in God,1996.ISBN0-521-48120-1.
- Philosophical Perspectives on Infinity,2006.ISBN0-521-86067-9.
- Arguing About Gods,2006.ISBN0-521-86386-4.
- "Evolution vs Creationism in Australian Schools", chapter inThe Australian Book of Atheism,2010.ISBN978-1-921640-76-6.
- The Best Argument Against God,2013.ISBN978-1-137-35413-6
- Reinventing Philosophy of Religion: An Opinionated Introduction,2014.ISBN978-1-137-43455-5
- Describing Gods: An Investigation of Divine Attributes,2014.ISBN978-1-107-08704-0
- The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy),2017.ISBN978-1-138-57405-2
- Atheism and Agnosticism (Elements in the Philosophy of Religion),2018.ISBN978-1-108-45472-8
- Atheism: The Basics,2018.ISBN978-1-138-50696-1
- Naturalism and Religion: A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation (Investigating Philosophy of Religion),2018.ISBN978-0-815-35466-6
- (withJoseph Koterski)Theism and Atheism: Opposing Arguments in Philosophy,2018.ISBN978-0028664453
- A Companion to Atheism and Philosophy (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy),2019.ISBN978-1-119-11911-1
- Is There a God?: A Debate (Little Debates about Big Questions),2021.ISBN978-0367243944
Notes and references
[edit]- ^Oppy, Graham (1990).Attitude Problems: Semantics for Propositional Attitude Ascriptions(PhD dissertation). Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University.
- ^Graham Oppy,The Best Argument against God,2013.
- ^"Graham Oppy [profile page]".Monash University.
- ^"Professor Graham Oppy FAHA".Australian Academy of the Humanities.
- ^Gel, Enric (2022)."How many and why? A question for Graham Oppy that classical theism can answer".Religious Studies.58(4): 846–856.doi:10.1017/S0034412521000482.hdl:2445/194888– via Cambridge University Press.
- ^abc"Graham Oppy's profile".Amazon.com. Archived fromthe originalon 14 October 2013.Retrieved23 March2007.
- ^Styles, Charles J.; Oppy, Graham."The best books on Atheist Philosophy of Religion recommended by Graham Oppy".Five Books.Retrieved30 July2019.
Interviewer: You are one of the most distinguished philosophers of religion working today, but you're also an atheist... Oppy: We're a small group, that's true.... There are a decent number of atheist philosophers of religion but we are greatly outnumbered by the theists.
- ^"Curriculum Vitae - Graham Oppy".infidels.org.Retrieved2 April2010.
External links
[edit]- Personal Homepage at Monash University- Includes career summary and highlights and a link to a complete list of publications.
- Graham Oppy articles at Internet Infidels
- Ontological argumentsandThe Turing Testat theStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- Interview on contemporary atheism
- Graham Oppy on the Kalam Cosmological ArgumentbyWilliam Lane Craig
- How many and why? A question for Graham Oppy that classical theism can answer
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