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Atheism: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)
Michael Ruse
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Description for Atheism: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)
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Over the last decade, New Atheists such as Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have pushed the issue of atheism to the forefront of public discussion. Yet very few of the ensuing debates and discussions have managed to provide a full and objective treatment of the subject. Atheism: What Everyone Needs to Know provides a balanced look at the topic, considering atheism historically, philosophically, theologically, sociologically and psychologically. Written in an easily accessible style, the book uses a question and answer format to examine the history of atheism, arguments for and against atheism, the ... Read more
Over the last decade, New Atheists such as Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have pushed the issue of atheism to the forefront of public discussion. Yet very few of the ensuing debates and discussions have managed to provide a full and objective treatment of the subject. Atheism: What Everyone Needs to Know provides a balanced look at the topic, considering atheism historically, philosophically, theologically, sociologically and psychologically. Written in an easily accessible style, the book uses a question and answer format to examine the history of atheism, arguments for and against atheism, the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199334582
SKU
V9780199334582
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About Michael Ruse
Michael Ruse was born in 1940 in England. Raised in a Quaker family, he went to Bootham School in York and then to the University of Bristol, where he majored in mathematics and philosophy. In 1962 he emigrated to Canada and did graduate work at McMaster University in Ontario. He returned to Bristol to do his doctoral ... Read more
Reviews for Atheism: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)
Atheism: What Everyone Needs to Know is an excellent scholarly yet very readable account of an important subject, which reveals its complexity and contradictions along with those of the human mind itself.
Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
Fully aware of how tedious tracts on either theology or atheism can be, Michael Ruse sets ... Read more
Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
Fully aware of how tedious tracts on either theology or atheism can be, Michael Ruse sets ... Read more