Graham Oppy

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region = Western Philosophy
era = 20th-century philosophy
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name = Graham Oppy
birth = October 6, 1960 (Benalla, Victoria, Australia)
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main_interests = philosophy of religion, metaphysics, epistemology
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Graham Robert Oppy (born October 6, 1960) is an Australian philosopher whose main area of research is the philosophy of religion. He current holds the posts of Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of Research at Monash University and serves as Associate Editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and serves on the editorial boards of Philo, Philosopher's Compass, Religious Studies, and Sophia.

Biography

Graham Oppy was born in Benalla in 1960 to a methodist family, but he ceased to be a religious believer as a young teenager. His family moved to Ballarat in 1965, and were still living there when he started to attend Melbourne University in 1979, where he completed two degrees: a BA in philosophy and a B.Sc in mathematics. In 1987 he started graduate work at Princeton University under the supervision of Gilbert Harman on questions in the philosophy of language.Cite web |title=Graham Oppy's profile |publisher=Amazon.com |url=http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A2OFQXPWT2700B |accessdate=2007-03-23]

He was a lecturer at the University of Wollongong from 1990-1992 and after doing a post-doc at the Australian National University, he came to Monash as a senior lecturer, and was promoted to Professor in 2005. He is currently Associate Dean Research (since 2004) and Associate Dean Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University.

Books

* "Ontological Arguments and Belief in God", 1996. ISBN 0521481201.
* "Philosophical Perspectives on Infinity", 2006. ISBN 0521860679.
* "Arguing about Gods", 2006. ISBN 0521863864.

Notes and references

External links

* [http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/philosophy/staff/goppy.php Personal Homepage at Monash University] - Includes career summary and highlights and a link to a complete list of publications.
* [http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/graham_oppy/ Graham Oppy articles at Internet Infidels]
* [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ontological-arguments/ Ontological arguments] and [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-test/ The Turing Test] at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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