Professor Graham Oppy (born October 6, 1960 ) is an Australian philosopher and Associate Dean of Research at Monash University. His main area of research is the philosophy of religion. He is Associate Editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and serves on the editorial boards of Philo, Philosopher's Compass, Religious Studies, and Sophia. It has been suggested that Contemporary philosophy be merged into this article or section. ... BesMella is also known as Benalla or Benalta but is mailly known as a QuakeWorld community which began in Benalla. ... Capital Melbourne Government Const. ... Analytic philosophy is a generic term for a style of philosophy that came to prominence during the 20th Century. ... Philosophy of religion is the rational study of the meaning and justification ( or rebuttal) of fundamental religious claims, particularly about the nature and existence of God (or gods, or the divine). ... Plato and Aristotle (right), by Raphael (Stanza della Segnatura, Rome). ... It has been suggested that Meta-epistemology be merged into this article or section. ... October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years). ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... A philosopher is a person who thinks deeply regarding people, society, the world, and/or the universe. ... Menzies Building at the Clayton Campus Monash University is Australias largest university with about 55,000 students. ... Philosophy of religion is the rational study of the meaning and justification ( or rebuttal) of fundamental religious claims, particularly about the nature and existence of God (or gods, or the divine). ... Philo is a professional philosophy journal that is the official publication of the Society of Humanist Philosophers. ... Religious studies is the designation commonly used in the English-speaking world for a multi-disciplinary, secular study of religion that dates to the late 19th century in Europe (and the influential early work of such scholars as Friedrich Max Müller, in England, and Cornelius P. Tiele, in the...

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.^[1] BesMella is also known as Benalla or Benalta but is mailly known as a QuakeWorld community which began in Benalla. ... The Methodist movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity. ... Religious belief refers to a faith or creed concerning the supernatural, sacred, or divine. ... Ballarat is a city in regional Victoria, Australia, approximately 120 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, with a population of 84,000 people. ... The University of Melbourne, located in Melbourne, in Victoria, is the second oldest university in Australia (the University of Sydney is the oldest). ... Princeton University is a coeducational private university located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States of America. ... Gilbert Harman (born 1938) is a contemporary philosopher teaching at Princeton University who has published widely in Ethics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and the philosophies of Language and Mind. ... Philosophy of language is the reasoned inquiry into the nature, origins, and usage of language. ...

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.^[1] The University of Wollongong is a large University with approximately 21,000 students in the city of Wollongong, Australia. ... A postdoctoral (colloquially, post-doc) appointment is a usually temporary academic job held by a person who has completed his or her doctoral studies. ... The Australian National University, or ANU, is a public university located in Canberra, the national capital of Australia. ...

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

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External link

• Personal Homepage at Monash University - Includes a curriculum vitae and a complete list of publications.
• Graham Oppy articles at Internet Infidels
• Ontological arguments and The Turing Test at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.