Mark R. Wynn | |
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Awards | Fellow of the British Academy (2022) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Thesis | God and the World: The Place of Explanation in Natural Theology (1991) |
Doctoral advisor | Brian Davies Richard Swinburne |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Philosophy,theology |
Institutions |
Mark Wynn FBA is a British philosopher of religion,philosophical theologian and academic. He is the seventh Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion Oriel College,University of Oxford. [1] [2] He was formerly the president of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion.
Wynn earned a BA in Philosophy and Theology at the University of Oxford,Hertford College. [3] He earned a DPhil in 1991 at Oxford (Linacre College) under the supervision of Brian Davies and Richard Swinburne for his dissertation,God and the World:The Place of Explanation in Natural Theology. [4]
Following a position at King's College London,he became a research fellow at University of Glasgow. He then held positions at the Australian Catholic University and the University of Exeter. From 2013 to 2020,Wynn was a professor of philosophy and religion at the University of Leeds. He joined the Faculty of Theology and Religion and the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford in July 2020. [1]
In 2022,he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA),the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. [5]
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