Robin Le Poidevin (born 1962) is Emeritus Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Leeds,[1] whose special interests include agnosticism, philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and philosophy of space and time.
Le Poidevin was educated at Repton School and Oriel College Oxford, where he graduated with a B.A.
He was Gifford Research Fellow in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of St Andrews, 1988-89.
[3] From 2010 to 2015 he was Editor of Religious Studies,[4] and is a past President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion.
[5] Le Poidevin has defended both agnosticism[6] and religious fictionalism[7] in his writings on religion, and the B-theory of time (which denies the reality of temporal passage) in his writings on metaphysics.