Title: Philosophers without gods : meditations on Atheism and the secular life /
Authors: Antony, Louise M.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Atheism.
Abstract: Nineteen leading philosophers open a window on the inner life of atheism, shattering common stereotypes as they reveal how they came to turn away from religious belief.
Contents: Faith and reason, the perpetual war: ruminations of a fool / Stewart Shapiro -- From Yeshiva Bochur to secular humanist / Joseph Levine -- Religio philosophi / Daniel Garber -- For the love of reason / Louise M. Antony -- Life without God: some personal costs / Daniel M. Farrell -- Overcoming Christianity / Walter Sinnott-Armstrong -- On becoming a heretic / Edwin Curley -- Mere stranger / Marvin Belzer -- An atheist's fundamentalism / James Tappenden -- Thank goodness! / Daniel C. Dennett -- Transcendence without God: on atheism and invisibility / Anthony Simon Laden -- An Aristotelian life / Marcia Homiak -- Without the net of providence: atheism and the human adventure / Kenneth A. Taylor -- Disenchantment / David Owens -- Religion and respect / Simon Blackburn -- Reasonable religious disagreements / Richard Feldman -- If God is dead, is everything permitted? / Elizabeth Secord Anderson -- Divine evil / David Lewis -- Meta-atheism: religious avowal as self-deception / Georges Rey -- Faith and Fanaticism / Jonathan E. Adler.