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  1. The images of time: an essay on temporal representation.Robin Le Poidevin - 2007 - New York: Oxford University Press.
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  2. Arguing for atheism: an introduction to the philosophy of religion.Robin Le Poidevin - 1996 - New York: Routledge.
    Arguing for Atheism introduces a wide range of topics in the philosophy of religion and metaphysics. Robin Le Poidevin does not simply defend a denial of God's existence; he presents instead a way of intepreting religious discourse which allows us to make sense of the role of religion in our spiritual and moral lives. Ideal as a textbook for university courses in the philosophy of religion and metaphysics, Arguing for Atheism is also designed to be accessible, in its style and (...)
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  3. Change, Cause and Contradiction: A Defence of the Tenseless Theory of Time.Robin Le Poidevin - 1991 - New York: St. Martin's Press.
  4. Travels in four dimensions: the enigmas of space and time.Robin Le Poidevin - 2003 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Space and time are the most fundamental features of our experience of the world, and yet they are also the most perplexing. Does time really flow, or is that simply an illusion? Did time have a beginning? What does it mean to say that time has a direction? Does space have boundaries, or is it infinite? Is change really possible? Could space and time exist in the absence of any objects or events? What, in the end, are space and time? (...)
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  5. The experience and perception of time.Robin Le Poidevin - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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    Arguing for Atheism: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion.Robin Le Poidevin - 1996 - New York: Routledge.
    Instead of simply defending a denial of God's existence Le Poidevin presents instead a way of interpreting religious discourse which allows us to make sense of the role of religion in our spiritual and moral lives.
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    Change, Cause and Contradiction.Robin Le Poidevin - 1991 - Philosophical Quarterly 44 (176):406-409.
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  8. Questions of time and tense.Robin Le Poidevin (ed.) - 1998 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    This book brings together new essays on a major focus of debate in contemporary metaphysics: does time really pass, or is our ordinary experience of time as consisting of past, present, and future an illusion? The international contributors broaden this debate by demonstrating the importance of questions about the nature of time for philosophical issues in ethics, aesthetics, psychology, science, religion, and language.
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  9. Missing Elements and Missing Premises: A Combinatorial Argument for the Ontological Reduction of Chemistry.Robin Le Poidevin - 2005 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 56 (1):117-134.
    Does chemistry reduce to physics? If this means ‘Can we derive the laws of chemistry from the laws of physics?’, recent discussions suggest that the answer is ‘no’. But sup posing that kind of reduction—‘epistemological reduction’—to be impossible, the thesis of ontological reduction may still be true: that chemical properties are determined by more fundamental properties. However, even this thesis is threatened by some objections to the physicalist programme in the philosophy of mind, objections that generalize to the chemical case. (...)
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  10. Playing the God game : the perils of religious fictionalism.Robin Le Poidevin - 2016 - In Andrei A. Buckareff & Yujin Nagasawa (eds.), Alternative Concepts of God: Essays on the Metaphysics of the Divine. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
     
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  11. The Philosophy of time.Robin Le Poidevin & Murray MacBeath (eds.) - 1993 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    This volume provides a balanced set of reviews which introduce the central topics in the philosophy of time. This is the first introductory anthology on the subject to appear for many years; the contributors are distinguished, and two of the essays are specially written for this collection. In their introduction, the editors summarize the background to the debate, and show the relevance of issues in the philosophy of time for other branches of philosophy and for science. Contributors include J.M.E. McTaggart, (...)
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    Religious Fictionalism.Robin Le Poidevin - 2019 - Cambridge University Press.
    This Element is an introduction to contemporary religious fictionalism, its motivation and challenges. Among the issues raised are: can religion be viewed as a game of make-believe? In what ways does religious fictionalism parallel positions often labelled 'fictionalist' in ethics and metaphysics? Does religious fictionalism represent an advance over its rivals? Can fictionalism provide an adequate understanding of the characteristic features of the religious life, such as worship, prayer, moral commitment? Does fictionalism face its own version of the problem of (...)
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  13. (1 other version)Questions of Time and Tense.Robin Le Poidevin - 2001 - Noûs 35 (4):616-629.
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  14. (1 other version)A puzzle concerning time perception.Robin le Poidevin - 2004 - Synthese 142 (1):109-142.
    According to a plausible and influential account of perceptual knowledge, the truth-makers of beliefs that constitute perceptual knowledge must feature in the causal explanation of how we acquire those beliefs. However, this account runs into difficulties when it tries to accommodate time perception -- specifically perception of order and duration -- since the features we are apparently tracking in such perception are not causal. The central aim of the paper is to solve this epistemological puzzle. Two strategies are examined. The (...)
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    Agnosticism: A Very Short Introduction.Robin Le Poidevin - 2010 - Oxford University Press.
    What is agnosticism? Is it a belief, or just the absence of belief? What is the 'agnostic' principle? Robin Le Poidevin takes a philosophical approach to the issue of agnosticism, challenging some of the common assumptions, arguing in favour of the agnostic attitude, and considering its place in society and education.
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    Fiction and the Agnostic.Robin Le Poidevin - 2020 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 12 (3):163-181.
    Consider the agnostic who thinks that reason and evidence are neutral on the question of God’s existence, and as a result neither believes that God exists nor believes that God does not exist. Can such an agnostic live a genuinely religious life – even one in which God is the central animating idea? They might do so by accepting Pascal’s Wager: the expected rewards will always be greater if one bets on God’s existence than if one does not. Or they (...)
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    Worlds within worlds? The paradoxes of embedded fiction.Robin Le Poidevin - 1995 - British Journal of Aesthetics 35 (3):227-238.
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    Continuants and Continuity.Robin Le Poidevin - 2000 - The Monist 83 (3):381-398.
    Are we the people we were? If we are continuants, then the answer to this question is an affirmative one. But it is a moot point whether anything is a continuant. The debate over this issue—of whether there are such things as continuants—is often conducted in the context of theories concerning the apparent passage of time. Thus it has been argued that the tenseless theory of time, according to which time does not really pass, forces us to tear down part (...)
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    Theistic discourse and fictional truth.Robin Le Poidevin - 2003 - Revue Internationale de Philosophie 3:271-284.
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  20. Continuants and Continuity.Robin Le Poidevin - 2000 - The Monist 83 (3):381 - 398.
    Are we the people we were? If we are continuants, then the answer to this question is an affirmative one. But it is a moot point whether anything is a continuant. The debate over this issue—of whether there are such things as continuants—is often conducted in the context of theories concerning the apparent passage of time. Thus it has been argued that the tenseless theory of time, according to which time does not really pass, forces us to tear down part (...)
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  21. Time and the Static Image: Robin Le Poidevin.Robin Le Poidevin - 1997 - Philosophy 72 (280):175-188.
    Photographs, paintings, rigid sculptures: all these provide examples of static images. It is true that they change—photographs fade, paintings darken and sculptures crumble—but what change they undergo is irrelevant to their representational content. A static image is one that represents by virtue of properties which remain largely unchanged throughout its existence. Because of this defining feature, according to a long tradition in aesthetics, a static image can only represent an instantaneous moment, or to be more exact the state of affairs (...)
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  22. The Past, Present, and Future of the Debate about Tense.Robin Le Poidevin - 1998 - In Questions of time and tense. New York: Oxford University Press.
     
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  23. Time without change (in three steps).Robin Le Poidevin - 2010 - American Philosophical Quarterly 47 (2):171-180.
    Forty years after it first appeared, Sidney Shoemaker's much-read article, "Time without Change" , with its striking thought experiment, still dominates discussions of this intriguing topic. And rightly so: it is imaginative, subtle, and controversial. But times have changed, as they do, and in particular, the epistemological context in which Shoemaker was writing, overshadowed as it was by verificationism, no longer constrains our thinking as once it did. This is the age of bold and unashamedly realist metaphysical argument, in which (...)
     
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    Relationism and temporal topology: Physics or metaphysics?Robin Le Poidevin - 1990 - Philosophical Quarterly 40 (161):419-432.
  25. (1 other version)Space, supervenience and substantivalism.Robin Le Poidevin - 2004 - Analysis 64 (3):191-198.
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    (1 other version)Time and space by Barry Dainton. Chesham: Acumen, 2001. Pp. XIV+386 hardcover £45. Paperback £18.95.Robin Le Poidevin - 2004 - Philosophy 79 (3):486-490.
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    Time and Freedom.Robin Le Poidevin - 2013 - In Adrian Bardon & Heather Dyke (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Time. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 535–548.
    Fatalistic arguments have a long history. Fatalism invites people to look at their metaphysical ideas about time itself, and asks whether there is anything in those ideas that represents a threat to human freedom. The chapter begins by taking a look at the traditional fatalistic argument, and seeing where it fails. It then analyzes recent answers to two questions: Is the future real? Does time really pass? It explores how, together, they constitute a dilemma. The chapter then discusses fallacies of (...)
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  28. Multiple incarnations and distributed persons.Robin Le Poidevin - 2011 - In Anna Marmodoro & Jonathan Hill (eds.), The Metaphysics of the Incarnation. Oxford University Press USA.
     
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    The chemistry of space.Robin Le Poidevin - 1994 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 72 (1):77 – 88.
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    Action at a distance.Robin Le Poidevin - 2007 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 61:21-36.
    In the broadest sense of the phrase, there is action at a distance whenever there is a spatial or temporal gap between a cause and its effect. In this sense, it is not at all controversial that there is action at a distance. To cite a few instances: the page a few inches in front of you is impinging on your senses; the Sun is now warming the Earth; we are still living with the consequences of the Second World War. (...)
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  31. II*—Egocentric and Objective Time.Robin Le Poidevin - 1999 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 99 (1):19-36.
    Robin Le Poidevin; II*—Egocentric and Objective Time, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 99, Issue 1, 1 June 1999, Pages 19–36, https://doi.org/10.
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    Can beliefs be caused by their truth-makers?Robin Le Poidevin - 1999 - Analysis 59 (3):148-156.
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    Kenosis, Necessity and Incarnation.Robin Le Poidevin - 2013 - Heythrop Journal 54 (2):214-227.
    The doctrine of the Incarnation faces the following modal challenge: ‘The Son, as God, exists of necessity; Jesus, as man, exists only contingently. Therefore they cannot be one and the same.’ On the face it, the kenotic model, on which the Son gave up some of the divine properties at the Incarnation, cannot help to meet this challenge, since the suggestion that the Son gave up necessary existence implies that the necessity in question was only contingent, and this notion makes (...)
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    Space and the chiral molecule.Robin Le Poidevin - 2000 - In Nalini Bhushan & Stuart M. Rosenfeld (eds.), Of Minds and Molecules: New Philosophical Perspectives on Chemistry. Oxford University Press.
  35. Time and truth in fiction.Robin Le Poidevin - 1988 - British Journal of Aesthetics 28 (3):248-258.
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    The New Theory of Time.Robin Le Poidevin - 1996 - International Philosophical Quarterly 36 (1):111-112.
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  37. The Principle of Reciprocity and a Proof of the Non-simultaneity of Cause and Effect.Robin le Poidevin - 1988 - Ratio:152.
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    7 Space, Mind and Deity.Robin Le Poidevin - 2024 - In Mirosław Szatkowski (ed.), Ontology of Divinity. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 163-180.
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  39. Perception and time.Robin Le Poidevin - 2015 - In Mohan Matthen (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Perception. New York, NY: Oxford University Press UK.
     
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  40. Lowe on Mctaggart.Robin Le Poidevin - 1993 - Mind 102 (405):163-170.
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    Relative realities.Robin Le Poidevin - 1997 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 28 (4):541-546.
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    Religious Conversion and Loss of Faith: Cases of Personal Paradigm Shift?Robin Le Poidevin - 2021 - Sophia 60 (3):551-566.
    Is Thomas Kuhn’s model of scientific revolutions in terms of paradigm shifts appropriately applied to cases of radical changes in religious outlook, and in particular conversion to faith, or loss of faith? Since this question cannot be addressed in purely a priori terms, three case studies of philosophers who have described significant changes in their own perspectives are examined. Part of the justification for such an approach is to see how changes in view seem from the first-person perspective. Although what (...)
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    Autonomous Agents or God’s Automata?: Human freedom from the divine perspective.Robin Le Poidevin - 1995 - Cogito 9 (1):35-41.
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    And Was Made Man: Mind, Metaphysics, and Incarnation.Robin Le Poidevin - 2023 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    The doctrine of the incarnation—that God became human in Christ—is one of the most astonishing propositions ever advanced, and it is at the heart of the Christian faith. It is also a paradoxical one, in that it immediately faces the objection that, since the properties of humanity and divinity are incompatible, nothing can be both divine and human. Can the doctrine be defended against the charge of incoherence? This is the central question of this book. It is a question which (...)
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  45. Are We the Outcome of Chance or Design?Robin Le Poidevin - 2008 - In Andrew Eshleman (ed.), Readings in the Philosophy of Religion: East Meets West. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell.
     
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    Being: Developments in Contemporary Metaphysics.Robin Le Poidevin (ed.) - 2008 - Cambridge University Press.
    What is it for an object to persist through time? Do things have essences? What is the relation between an object and its parts? Are objects more real than their parts, or vice versa? Could there be spatio-temporally coincident objects? Do we need an ontology of truth-makers? These interrelated questions reflect the central concerns of contemporary metaphysics, which in recent years has seen an intensification of interest in ontological issues. They are the focus of the essays collected in this volume, (...)
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  47. Being: Developments in Contemporary Metaphysics: Volume 62.Robin Le Poidevin (ed.) - 2008 - Cambridge University Press.
    What is it for an object to persist through time? Do things have essences? What is the relation between an object and its parts? Are objects more real than their parts, or vice versa? Could there be spatio-temporally coincident objects? Do we need an ontology of truth-makers? These interrelated questions reflect the central concerns of contemporary metaphysics, which in recent years has seen an intensification of interest in ontological issues. They are the focus of the essays collected in this volume, (...)
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    (1 other version)Euthyphro and the goodness of God incarnate.Robin Le Poidevin - 2011 - Ratio 24 (2):206-221.
    A familiar problem is here viewed from an unfamiliar angle. The familiar problem is the Euthyphro dilemma: if God wills something because it is good, then goodness is independent of God, so God becomes, morally speaking, de trop. On the other hand, if something is good because God wills it, then, given the absence of constraint on what God may will, moral truths are – counterintuitively – contingent. An examination of the kinds of necessity and possibility at work in this (...)
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  49. 'Eternity Shut in a Span': The Times of God Incarnate.Robin Le Poidevin - 2017 - Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion 8:207-226.
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    Hume and the ‘secret connexion’: Why causation is a singular affair.Robin Le Poidevin - 2021 - Think 20 (58):9-22.
    The great Scottish Enlightenment man of letters David Hume offered an account of causation in terms of regularities: repeated pairings of certain kinds of events. Anything more than this, a supposed ‘secret connexion’ binding individual causes and effects, is not something we could ever experience. This, at least, is the view traditionally ascribed to him. Here the account, and its empiricist motivation, is outlined, and a fundamental problem identified: his account of causation is in tension with his account of the (...)
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