Wynn earned a BA in Philosophy and Theology at the University of Oxford,
Hertford College. He earned a
DPhil in 1991 at Oxford (
Linacre College) under the supervision of
Brian Davies and
Richard Swinburne for his dissertation,
God and the World: The Place of Explanation in Natural Theology. Following a position at
King's College London, he became a research fellow at
University of Glasgow. He then held positions at the
Australian Catholic University and the
University of Exeter. From 2013 to 2020, Wynn was a professor of philosophy and religion at the
University of Leeds. He joined the Faculty of Theology and Religion and the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford in July 2020. == Books ==