Richard SwinburneRichard Granville is an Englishman. Swinburne is an English philosopher who was born on December 26, 1934. He is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Oxford University. Swinburne has been a proponent of intellectual arguments for God's existence for te last 50 years. His intellectual contributions are mostly in the fields of religion and science. His early work in philosophy of religion, a trilogy of volumes titled The Coherence of Theism, The Existence of God, and Faith and Reason, sparked great debate. Swinburne was born on the 26th of December 1934, in Smethwick, Staffordshire, England. His father was a school music teacher who was the son of a Shoreditch off-licence owner. His mother worked as a secretary and was the daughter of an optometrist. He is the only child in the family. Swinburne attended a preparatory school before moving on to Charterhouse School. Swinburne obtained an open scholarship to Exeter College, Oxford, to study classics, but instead graduated with a first-class Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy, politics, and economics. Swinburne has held a number of professorships throughout his academic career. He lectured at Keele University from 1972 to 1985. From 1982 to 1984, he gave the Gifford lectures at Aberdeen, which resulted in the book The Evolution of the Soul. Read More Read Less