Graham Oppy | |
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 Oppy in 2021 | |
| Born | 6 October 1960 Benalla, Victoria, Australia |
| Alma mater | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Attitude Problems[1] (1990) |
| Doctoral advisor | Gilbert Harman |
Main interests | |
Notable ideas | "The best argument against God" (while naturalism is simpler than theism, 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 the philosophy of religion. He is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of Research at Monash University, CEO of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, chief editor of the Australasian Philosophical Review, associate editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and he is on the editorial boards of Philo, Philosopher's Compass, Religious Studies, and Sophia.[3] He was elected fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2009.[4] Oppy is considered by some philosophers (including William Lane Craig and Edward Feser) to be the most formidable defender of atheism living today. [5]
- ^ 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.