50 voices of disbelief : why we are atheists / edited by Russell Blackford and Udo Schüklenk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blackford, Russell, 1954-

Schüklenk, Udo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atheists.

Atheism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists presents a collection of original essays drawn from an international group of prominent voices in the fields of academia, science, literature, media and politics who offer carefully considered statements of why they are atheists. Features a truly international cast of contributors, ranging from public intellectuals such as Peter Singer, Susan Blackmore, and A.C. Grayling, novelists, such as Joe Haldeman, and heavyweight philosophers of religion, including Graham Oppy and Michael TooleyContributions range from rigorous philosophical

Contents:

50 Voices of Disbelief; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Now More Important than Ever - Voices of Reason; Unbelievable!; My ""Bye Bull"" Story; How Benevolent Is God? An Argumentfrom Suffering to Atheism; A Deal-Breaker; Why Am I a Nonbeliever? - I Wonder . . .; Wicked or Dead? Reflections on the Moral Character and Existential Status of God; Religious Belief and Self-Deception; The Coming of Disbelief; What I Believe; Too Good to Be True, Too Obscure to Explain: The Cognitive Shortcomings of Belief in God; How to Think About God: Theism, Atheism, and Science

A Magician Looks at ReligionConfessions of a Kindergarten Leper; Beyond Disbelief; An Ambivalent Nonbelief; Why Not?; Godless Cosmology; Unanswered Prayers; Beyond Faith and Opinion; Could It Be Pretty Obvious There's No God?; Atheist, Obviously; Why I am Not a Believer; Evil and Me; Who's Unhappy?; Reasons to be Faithless; Three Stages of Disbelief; Born Again, Briefly; Cold Comfort; The Accidental Exorcist; Atheist Out of the Foxhole; The Unconditional Love of Reality; Antinomies; Giving Up Ghosts and Gods; Some Thoughts on Why I Am an Atheist; No Gods, Please!

Welcome Me Back to the World of the ThinkingKicking Religion Goodbye . . .; On Credenda; ""Not Even Start to Ignore Those Questions!" A Voice of Disbelief in a Different Key; Imagine No Religion; Humanism as Religion: An Indian Alternative; Why I Am NOT a Theist; When the Hezbollah Came to My School; Evolutionary Noise, not Signal from Above; Gods Inside; Why Morality Doesn't Need Religion; Doctor Who and the Legacy of Rationalism; My Nonreligious Life: A Journey From Superstition to Rationalism; Helping People to Think Critically About Their Religious Beliefs

Human Self-Determination, Biomedical Progress, and GodAbout the Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786613204646

9781444357653

1444357654

9781283204644

1283204649

9781444307986

1444307983

9781444307993

1444307991

OCLC:

476311789