Richard Swinburne

Richard Swinburne
Swinburne in 2009
Born	Richard Granville Swinburne (1934-12-26) 26 December 1934 (age 89) Smethwick, England
Academic background
Alma mater	Exeter College, Oxford
Influences	Plato Aristotle René Descartes Thomas Aquinas Rudolf Carnap Carl Hempel
Academic work
Discipline	Philosophy theology
Sub-discipline	Philosophical theology philosophy of religion philosophy of science
School or tradition	Analytic philosophy
Institutions	University of Hull University of Keele Oriel College, Oxford
Doctoral students	Kai-man Kwan[1] J. L. Schellenberg[2] Mark Wynn[3]
Main interests	Christian apologetics
Influenced	William Lane Craig Brian Davies Antony Flew Keith Ward Dean Zimmerman
Website	users.ox.ac.uk/~orie0087

Richard Granville Swinburne FBA (/ˈswɪnbɜːrn/; born 26 December 1934) is an English philosopher. He is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Over the last 50 years, Swinburne has been a proponent of philosophical arguments for the existence of God. His philosophical contributions are primarily in the philosophy of religion and philosophy of science. He aroused much discussion with his early work in the philosophy of religion, a trilogy of books consisting of The Coherence of Theism, The Existence of God, and Faith and Reason. He has been influential in reviving substance dualism as an option in philosophy of mind.^[4]