History of Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand

Graham Oppy is Professor of Philosophy at Monash University, and Chair of Council of the Australasian Association of Philosophy. He is author of: Ontological Arguments and Belief in God (1996), Philosophical Perspectives on Infinity (2006), Arguing about Gods (2006), Reading Philosophy of Religion (2010, with Michael Scott), The Best Argument against God (2013), and Reinventing Philosophy of Religion (2014); and editor of: The History of Western Philosophy of Religion (2009, with Nick Trakakis), A Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand (2010, with Nick Trakakis), and The Antipodean Philosopher (2011, 2012, with Nick Trakakis, Lynda Burns, Steve Gardner, Fiona Leigh and Michelle Irving).N.N. Trakakis is a Research Fellow in the School of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University, and has previously taught philosophy at Monash University and Deakin University. He works primarily in the philosophy of religion, and his publications in this area include The God Beyond Belief (Springer 2007) and The End of Philosophy of Religion (Continuum 2008), as well as articles published in journals such as Philosophy Compass, Sophia, Religious Studies, and International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. Together with Graham Oppy, he co-edited the five-volume History of Western Philosophy of Religion (Acumen 2009) and A Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand (Monash University Publishing 2010). Apart from philosophy, he also writes poetry and has published four volumes and a chapbook to date.