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Type Place

Title University of Oxford

Subtype Institution

State Developing

Aliases Oxford

Region Oxfordshire

Country England

Coordinates 51.7548 N, 1.2544 W

Associations analytic-philosophy, natural-theology, philosophy-of-religion

Created 2026-04-30

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J. L. Mackie 1

J. L. Mackie was an Australian philosopher who spent the second half of his career at University College, Oxford. He worked across moral philosophy, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics, but his place in this corpus is…

Richard Swinburne 1

… is the canonical analytic theist of the second half of the twentieth century. He held the Nolloth Chair at Oxford from 1985 to 2002, and across a long career has produced the most systematic defense of theism in the…

The Analytic Revival of Philosophy of Religion 1

… after Plantinga's arrival in 1982 and the consolidation of the Center for Philosophy of Religion. Oxford, with Richard Swinburne's Nolloth Chair, was a parallel center on the British side. The revival was…

University of Notre Dame 1

… Dame, or were on their way to Notre Dame. The university is in this respect the analytic counterpart to Oxford across the Atlantic.

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the institutional anchor of much of the British analytic philosophy of religion. J. L. Mackie held a fellowship at University College from 1967 until his death. Richard Swinburne held the Nolloth Chair of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at Oriel from 1985 to 2002. The Nolloth Chair itself, founded in 1920, is the oldest endowed chair in the philosophy of religion in the English-speaking world.

For the purposes of this corpus, Oxford is the place where the late twentieth century’s two strongest analytic statements of the case for and against theism, The Miracle of Theism and The Existence of God, were each substantially written within ten minutes’ walk of one another, by colleagues who knew each other and disagreed in print.