Table of Contents

1: What is agnosticism?2: Who were the first agnostics?3: Is agnosticism necessary?4: Why be agnostic?5: Does agnosticism rest on a mistake?6: How should the agnostic live?7: How should agnosticism be taught?References and further reading

About the Author

Robin Le Poidevin took a first degree in philosophy and psychology at Oxford University, and went on to postgraduate research at Cambridge University. He is now Professor Metaphysics at Leeds Univeristy, and the author of a number of books and articles on metaphysics and the philosophy of religion. In 2007 he gave the Stanton Lectures in the Philosophy of Religion at Cambridge.