Francis Fallon is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at St John's University, New York, USA. He studied at Trinity College Dublin, Queens' College, Cambridge, and at the University of Lancaster, UK. Fallon primarily publishes in the Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Science. His current projects include empirical work on consciousness (supported by the Templeton World Charity Foundation's Accelerating Consciousness Research initiative). Fallon is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Long Island Philosophical Society.
Gavin Hyman is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at the University of Lancaster, UK. He was educated at the University of Exeter and Peterhouse, Cambridge. Hyman has also held Visiting Fellowships at Mansfield College, Oxford, and Hatfield College, University of Durham. His publications include The Predicament of Postmodern Theology (2001), New Directions in Philosophical Theology (editor, 2004), A Short History of Atheism (2010), Traversing the Middle: Ethics, Politics, Religion (2013) and Confronting Secularism in Europe and India (co-editor, 2014).

• Introduction


• 1: Robin Le Poidevin: The New Agnosticism


• 2: Yuval Avnur: What is Wrong with Agnostic Belief?


• 3: Francis Fallon: If Agnosticism, Then What?


• 4: David Leech: New Agnosticism, Imaginative Challenge and Religious Experience


• 5: Gavin Hyman: Hegel, Wittgenstein, and the Question of Agnosticism


• 6: Paul O'Grady: Aquinas and Agnosticism


• 7: Guy Collins: Redeeming Agnosticism: Richard Kearney's Anatheistic Wager

Agnosticism: With Respect to God brings together leading philosophers, considering the question of agnosticism, an under-explored area in philosophy and religious thought, from both analytic and continental perspectives. The book explores the various meanings of agnosticism in the twenty-first century.