Graham Robert Oppy

I am a Professor of Philosophy and a member of the Australian Academy of Humanities.

I have been working at Monash University for the past twenty-five years. During my time at Monash, I have taught mostly philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and logic. My current courses are: God, Freedom and Evil; Metaphysics; and Philosophy of Religion.

Prior to my appointment at Monash, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Philosophy Program in the Research School for the Social Sciences at the Australian National University in Canberra. Before that, I was a Lecturer at the University of Wollongong (no, Bruce, not Woolloomooloo).

I wrote my doctoral dissertation at Princeton University. My dissertation advisor was Gil Harman; my dissertation was about questions in the philosophy of language. Before that, I was an undergraduate student at Melbourne University. I completed two degrees: a BA with a major in philosophy; and a B.Sc with a major in mathematics (and a minor in physics).

Skipping back a bit, I was born in Benalla (pop. 8000); my family moved to Ballarat (pop. 80,000) when I turned six, and were still living there when I started to attend Melbourne University. My parents were Methodists; I ceased to be a religious believer when I was in my early teenage years. I am interested in a wide range of question about religion; I have done much work on arguments about the existence of God.