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Title:

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

Publisher:

Wiley-Blackwell,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

viii, 346 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Atheists
Atheism

Other Authors:

Blackford, Russell, 1954-
Sch©ơklenk, Udo

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

An ambivalent nonbelief / Philip Kitcher -- Unbelievable! / Russell Blackford -- My "bye bull" story / Margaret Downey -- How benevolent is God? : an argument from suffering to atheism / Nicholas Everitt -- A deal-breaker / Ophelia Benson -- Why am I a nonbeliever? : I wonder-- / J.L. Schellenberg -- Wicked or dead? : reflections on the moral character and existential status of God / John Harris -- Religious belief and self-deception / Ad©·le Mercier -- The coming of disbelief / J.J.C. Smart -- What I believe / Graham Oppy -- Too good to be true, too obscure to explain : the cognitive shortcomings of belief in God / Thomas W. Clark -- How to think about God : theism, atheism, and science / Michael Shermer -- A magician looks at religion / James Randi -- Confessions of a kindergarten leper / Emma Tom -- Beyond disbelief / Philip Kitcher -- An ambivalent nonbelief /
Kelly O'Connor -- Welcome me back to the world of the thinking / Sean M. Carroll -- Godless cosmology / Victor J. Stenger -- Unanswered prayers / Christine Overall -- Beyond faith and opinion / Damien Broderick -- Could it be pretty obvious there's no God? / Stephen Law -- Atheist, obviously / Julian Baggini -- Why I am not a believer / A.C. Grayling -- Evil and me / Gregory Benford -- Who's unhappy? / Lori Lipman Brown -- Reasons to be faithless / Sheila A.M. McLean -- Three stages of disbelief / Julian Savulescu -- Born again, briefly / Greg Egan -- Cold comfort / Ross Upshur -- The accidental exorcist / Austin Dacey -- Atheist out of the foxhole / Joe Haldeman -- The unconditional love of reality / Dale McGowan -- Antinomies / Jack Dann -- Giving up ghosts and gods / Susan Blackmore -- Some thoughts on why I am an atheist / Tamas Pataki -- No gods, please! / Laura Purdy -- Welcome me back to the world of the thinking / Kelly O'Connor --
Human self-determination, biomedical progress, and God / Udo Sch©ơklenk. On credenda / Miguel Kottow -- "Not even start to ignore those questions!" : a voice of disbelief in a different key / Frieder Otto Wolf -- Imagine no religion / Edgar Dahl -- Humanism as religion : an Indian alternative / Sumitra Padmanabhan -- Why I am NOT a theist / Prabir Ghosh -- When the Hezbollah came to my school / Maryam Namazie -- Evolutionary noise, not signal from above / Athena Andreadis -- Gods inside / Michael R. Rose and John P. Phelan -- Why morality doesn't need religion / Peter Singer and Marc Hauser -- Doctor who and the legacy of rationalism / Sean Williams -- My nonreligious life : a journey from superstition to rationalism / Peter Tatchell -- Helping people to think critically about their religious beliefs / Michael Tooley -- Human self-determination, biomedical progress, and God / Udo Sch©ơklenk.

ISBN:

1405190469 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781405190466 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1405190450 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781405190459 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)312096082

LCCN:

2009007108

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)