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, 2017 Version of Record: in P. Bubbio and P. Quadrio (eds.) New Atheism: Critical Perspectives from Philosophy and the Social Science Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press ...
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2018
New atheists face an old problem that entangles them with their theist opponents. The fundamental cosmological question—why does the world exist?—cannot be answered in scientific terms. As questions of cause slip into infinite regress, new atheists, like the theists they resist, must posit that something simply exists: something must be granted ...
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New atheists face an old problem that entangles them with their theist opponents. The fundamental cosmological question—why does the world exist?—cannot be answered in scientific terms. As questions of cause slip into infinite regress, new atheists, like the theists they resist, must posit that something simply exists: something must be granted ...
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A Greimas rectangle for a new New Atheism
Culture and Religion, 2018This paper deploys a diagrammatic tool pioneered by structuralist AJ Greimas and developed by Frederic Jameson to explicate the atheism of Slavoj Žižek.
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A New Interpretation of Indian Atheism
Philosophy East and West, 1966IN INDIAN PHILOSOPHY the systems which are generally regarded as atheistic are the Cirvika, the Srhtkhya, the Mimrihsi, Buddhism, and Jainism. The term atheism, when applied to a system of thought, usually means that the system has no use for the concept of God and that it is opposed to all forms of spiritualism and religion.
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The New Outspoken Atheism and Education
Harvard Educational Review, 2008In this essay, Nel Noddings calls upon U.S. public schools to equip students with a more nuanced understanding of religious vocabulary, history, and ideas. Examining recent books by outspoken atheists including Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens, Noddings argues that schools should help students "communicate across ...
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New Blackfriars, 2015
The popular ‘movement’ which became known as ‘new atheism’ reached its pinnacle in the late 2000s with the publication of books by Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and a number of others. At risk of using tabloid language, I do not think it would be objectionable to say that such a ‘movement’ sought to attack both ...
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The popular ‘movement’ which became known as ‘new atheism’ reached its pinnacle in the late 2000s with the publication of books by Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and a number of others. At risk of using tabloid language, I do not think it would be objectionable to say that such a ‘movement’ sought to attack both ...
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Journal of Global Ethics, 2013
Over the past decade, New Atheists have campaigned against the influence of religion in public life and favored a more enlightened understanding of the world – one based on the methods and theories of the natural sciences. Although the leaders of this movement refuse to give religion, even moderate religion, any place in determining moral conduct, they
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Over the past decade, New Atheists have campaigned against the influence of religion in public life and favored a more enlightened understanding of the world – one based on the methods and theories of the natural sciences. Although the leaders of this movement refuse to give religion, even moderate religion, any place in determining moral conduct, they
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A new tak on the "new atheism"
2018Without realizing it, we are living in a time in which a new kind of atheism seems to have broken all the bridges of dialogue with religion and its theologians. The irrationality of all religious beliefs, the new atheists argue, and the lack of coherence of many believers and many of their ministers and priests, make all faith impossible.
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The Presumption and Insight of New Atheism
Theology and Science, 2012Abstract This article analyzes the insights and shortcomings of selected New Atheist writings. The first section places the New Atheists into critical dialogue with Catholic philosopher Charles Taylor. Here I argue that the most rhetorically compelling claim of New Atheism—that religion is at odds with the basic values of humanity—is also the point of ...
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