Robin Le Poidevin

Robin Le Poidevin (born 1962) is an Emeritus Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Leeds. Educated at Repton School and Oriel College, Oxford, he earned a BA in Psychology and Philosophy, followed by a PhD in Philosophy from Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He served as a Gifford Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews before joining the University of Leeds in 1989, where he taught until 2022. Le Poidevin was the Stanton Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge in 2007 and the Alan Richardson Fellow in Theology at Durham University in 2012. He was Editor of *Religious Studies* from 2010 to 2015 and is a past President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion. His work explores agnosticism, religious fictionalism, and the B-theory of time. In 2025, he is set to receive a Doctor of Letters (Litt.D.) from the University of Cambridge.