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Born | Richard Granville Swinburne 26 December 1934 Smethwick, England |
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Alma mater | Exeter College, Oxford |
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School or tradition | Analytic philosophy |
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Main interests | Christian apologetics |
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Richard Granville Swinburne (IPA /ˈswɪnbɜːrn/) FBA (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]