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I am grateful to many friends and colleagues without whom I would never have come to think these thoughts, nor found time to record them as I have done here. This book was completed before my move to the School of Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science at the University of Leeds, and I would like to thank my colleagues and also my students in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter for their many years of support and their continued interest in my work. I am indebted in particular to Siobhán Garrigan and Tim Gorringe, both of whom have nudged me and, at times, goaded me in my thinking on these questions. I am also most grateful to my fellow workers in the philosophy of religion, and especially to John Cottingham, Chris Hamilton, Douglas Hedley, Dave Leal, and Tim Mawson. I am fortunate to have the opportunity to meet with these friends on a regular basis, and a number of the ideas I develop here were first presented and then newly shaped in conversation with them. In these enquiries they have been my immediate intellectual community. I have also derived immense benefit from the discussion of papers I have presented on these themes, and I would like to thank Sarah Coakley, Christopher Cook, Victoria Harrison, Brian Leftow, and Matthew Ratcliffe for the opportunity to rehearse some of the ideas that I present here in Cambridge, Durham (twice), Glasgow, and Oxford. I am grateful too for the guidance and encouragement provided by three anonymous readers for Oxford University Press, who were kind enough to read and comment on the whole manuscript. I would also like to give thanks to my first helpers in the philosophy of religion, Peter Byrne, Brian Davies, and Richard Swinburne, whose approach to the subject, they may be surprised to hear, continues to inform my sense of sound intellectual practice! Lastly, I would like to extend my thanks to my family. This book is a study of the notion of ‘sensibility’, and my own sensibility, including my interest in the question of sensibility, is firmly rooted in my family context. So my thanks to Kate and Rowan, Mum and Dad, Rob and Sarah, Geggsy and Vania, and Mark and Sue for giving me what I have and who I am. The book is dedicated to my wife’s Australian parents, John and Margaret, who have allowed me to keep Kate in the land of grey skies for the last ten years and more. I offer it to them with thanks for their continuing love and support, and in the knowledge that, as a radiologist, John has long been exercised by Plato’s parable of the cave!

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