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Ordinary Morality Implies Atheism [PDF]
, 2009 I present a "moral argument" for the nonexistence of God. Theism, I argue, can’t accommodate an ordinary and fundamental moral obligation acknowledged by many people, including many theists.
Maitzen, Stephen
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Atheism and the Apotheosis of Agency
Temenos, 2006 This paper suggests that biological factors ought to be considered in attempting to explain distributions of theism and atheism across populations. In advancing our argument, we consider two recent efforts to explain atheism.
BENSON SALER, CHARLES A. ZIEGLER
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Psychedelic Drugs and Atheism: Debunking the Myths
Religions, 2021 Two recent surveys of people who took psychedelic drugs and reported “God experience encounters”, along with successful clinical trials using psychedelic therapy for depression, have given rise to public misconceptions about psychedelics and atheism ...
Wayne Glausser
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What's really new about new atheism? [PDF]
, 2016 The rise of new atheism has attracted significant attention but its novelty is often assumed rather than explained. By exploring the origins of new atheism and drawing comparisons to earlier atheist forms, this paper argues that new atheism contains ...
Kettell, Steven
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Kader, 2023 The article provides a retrospective analysis of the ways, mechanisms, and methods of development of atheism in Uzbekistan in the 30s of the twentieth century.
Dilmurod Ernazarov
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Wagering on Pragmatic Encroachment [PDF]
, 2017 Lately, there has been an explosion of literature exploring the the relationship between one’s practical situation and one’s knowledge. Some involved in this discussion have suggested that facts about a person’s practical situation might affect whether ...
Eaton, Daniel, Pickavance, Timothy
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Secularism and Nonreligion, 2018 This article explores how atheism, literalism, and non-literalism are validated and stigmatized in public discourse over evolutionary theory. Through an ethnographic content analysis of 1,028 letters to the editor, I examine how authors frame the ...
Eric O. Silva
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Theological Critique of the "New Atheism" [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2016 The paper is devoted to a critical analysis of one of the newest trends of modern Anglo-American freethinking. It is called “new atheism”. The most known spokesmen of this trend are R. Dawkins, D. Dennett, S. Harris and Ch. Hitchens.
Sleptsova Valeriia
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Analytic atheism: A cross-culturally weak and fickle phenomenon? [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2018 Religious belief is a topic of longstanding interest to psychological science, but the psychology of religious disbelief is a relative newcomer. One prominently discussed model is analytic atheism, wherein cognitive reflection, as measured with the ...
Will M. Gervais +11 more
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Contrasting irreligious orientation: atheism and secularity in the USA and Scandinavia
Approaching Religion, 2012 Atheism and secularity are not static, fixed orientations. Rather, atheism and secularity are contoured, malleable, and deeply shaped by cultural and social forces.
Phil Zuckerman
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