A companion to atheism and philosophy /
Philosophers throughout history have debated the existence of gods, but it is only in recent years that the absence of such a belief has become a significant topic of philosophical analysis, in particular for philosophers of religion. Although it is difficult to trace the historical contours of athe...
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley and Sons Ltd. : Wiley-Blackwell,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Blackwell companions to philosophy ;
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Overview; Characterization of Atheism; Historical Considerations; Objections to Atheism; Arguing about Atheism; References; Part I Individual Thinkers; Chapter 1 Hume; Theism vs. Atheism; True Religion; Divine Benevolence; Miracles; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 2 Holbach; Holbach as Salonnier, Encyclopedist, and Author; Salon and Sociability; Holbach and the Encyclopédie; Holbach's Reputation and the Publication of His Scandalous Works; Publication and Reception of the System of Nature
- Holbach's Defense of AtheismShared Premises; Philosophical Atheism, not Agnosticism; Intellectual Hedonism and Intellectual Atheism; Notes; References; Chapter 3 Marx; Atheism and Historical Materialism; Life Determines Consciousness; Matter and Historicity; The Insensibility of Asking after God's Existence; "The Opium of the People"; Marx and the Jewish Question; Conclusion: "Man is the Highest Being for Man"; Notes; References; Chapter 4 Wollstonecraft; Writing Religion out of her Life: Godwin, Atheism and Biography; Atheism and Republicanism
- Rousseau and the Paris Years
- Man, Woman and GodConclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 5 Cady Stanton; References; Chapter 6 Russell; Russell's Religious Background; Religion as Untrue; The Eternal Soul and God Almighty; The Proofs for God's Existence; The Moral Domain; Religion as Harmful; A Religious Atheist?; Notes; References; Part II Philosophical Movements; Chapter 7 Empiricism; What is Empiricism?; Religious Implications; Faith as a Source of Knowledge; References; Chapter 8 Pragmatism; Pragmatism and Knowledge; Pragmatic Differences; Standard Objections to Pragmatism; Pragmatism and Atheism; Notes; References
- Chapter 9 ExistentialismDeath; Living in the Context of Human History; The Logic of Meaning; Permanence; Meaning Objectivism; Existential Meaning; Notes; References; Chapter 10 Postmodernism; Nietzsche and Heidegger; Sartre and Foucault; Badiou, Nancy, and Derrida; Conclusions; Notes; References; Chapter 11 Naturalism; Dogmatic and Progressive Naturalism; Naturalness is a Property of Theories; Naturalness and Formalization; Some Attractive Consequences of Formalism; Naturalizing the Abstract Sciences; Naturalizing the Concrete Sciences; Naturalizing the Mind; Religious Naturalism; Conclusion
- NotesReferences; Part III Critiques of Theism; Chapter 12 Logical Objections to Theism; A Map of the Terrain; Specific Examples; Omnipotence: The Stone Objection, and Other Problems; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 13 Evidential Objections to Theism; Defining the Topic; Theism's Prior Probability and Predictive Power; The Dilemma of Theism's Predictive Power; Closing Considerations; References; Further Reading; Chapter 14 Normative Objections to Theism; Theism and the Problem of Suffering; The Free-Will Theodicy; The Soul-Making Theodicy; Theodical Individualism