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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828905903321

Titolo

Philosophers without gods : meditations on Atheism and the secular life / / Louise M. Antony, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2007

ISBN

0-19-773124-4

0-19-983978-6

1-281-15649-3

9786611156497

0-19-803859-3

1-4356-0049-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Altri autori (Persone)

AntonyLouise M

Disciplina

211/.8

Soggetti

Atheism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-301) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Faith and reason, the perpetual war: ruminations of a fool / Sterwart Shapiro -- From Yeshiva Bochur to secular humanist / Joseph Levine -- Religio philosophi / Daniel Garber -- For the love of reason / Louise M. Antony -- Life without God: some personal costs / Daniel M. Farrell -- Overcoming Christianity / Walter Sinnott-Armstrong -- On becoming a heretic / Edwin Curley -- Mere stranger / Marvin Belzer -- An atheist's fundamentalism / James Tappenden -- Thank goodness! / Daniel C. Dennett -- Transcendence without God: on atheism and invisibility / Anthony Simon Laden -- An Aristotelian life / Marcia Homiak -- Without the net of providence: atheism and the human adventure / Kenneth A. Taylor -- Disenchantment / David Owens -- Religion and respect / Simon Blackburn -- Reasonable religious disagreements / Richard Feldman -- If God is dead, is everything permitted? / Elizabeth Secord Anderson -- Divine evil / David Lewis -- Meta-atheism: religious avowal as self-deception / Georges Rey -- Faith and Fanaticism / Jonathan E. Adler.

Sommario/riassunto

Atheists are sometimes demonised as arrogant, antagonistic to religion, and devoid of moral sentiments. In this volume 19 leading



philosophers open a window on the inner life of atheism, shattering these stereotypes as they reveal how they came to turn away from religious belief.