Richard G. Swinburne (; born 26 December 1934) is a British
philosopher. He is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Oxford. Over the last 50 years Swinburne has been an influential proponent of philosophical arguments for the existence of God. His philosophical contributions are primarily in the
philosophy of religion and
philosophy of science. He aroused much discussion with his early work in the philosophy of religion, a trilogy of books consisting of
The Coherence of Theism,
The Existence of God, and
Faith and Reason.