Mark Wynn
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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]
