The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics

Routledge Companions

by Robin Le Poidevin (Editor), Peter M. Simons (Editor), Ross Cameron (Editor)

'The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics' contains over 50 chapters written by international scholars covering all aspects of metaphysics. It is essential reading for any student of metaphysics and an invaluable reference resource.

Genres: Philosophy, Metaphysics

632 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

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, and philosophy of religion. He joined the Department of Philosophy at Leeds in 1989 having completed postgraduate studies at both Oxford and Cambridge, obtaining his MA from the former and his PhD from the latter.He is also the current president of The British Society for the Philosophy of Religion.

From 1998 to 2001 he was Head of Department, and in 2000 was appointed to a personal chair in Metaphysics. He is a member of the Centre for Philosophy of Religion, the Centre for Metaphysics and Mind, and is the Editor of Religious Studies, and Past President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion.

In 2007 he gave the Stanton Lectures in the Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge, and in 2012 was Alan Richardson Fellow in Theology at the University of Durham.