This book presents a pragmatic response to arguments against
religion made by the New Atheism movement. The author argues that
analytic and empirical philosophies of religion-the mainstream
approaches in contemporary philosophy of religion-are
methodologically unequipped to address the "Threefold Challenge"
made by popular New Atheist thinkers such as Richard Dawkins, Sam
Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett. The book has
three primary motivations. First, it provides an interpretation of
the New Atheist movement that treats their claims as philosophical
arguments and not just rhetorical exercises or demagoguery. Second,
it assesses and responds to these claims by elaborating four
distinct contemporary philosophical perspectives- analytic
philosophy, empirical philosophy, continental philosophy, and
pragmatism-as well as contextualizing these perspectives in the
history of the philosophy of religion. Finally, the book offers a
metaphilosophical critique, returning again and again to the
question of method. In the end, the author settles upon a modified
version of pragmatism that he concludes is best suited for
articulating the terms and stakes of the God Debate. Challenging
the New Atheism will be of interest to scholars and students of
American philosophy and philosophy of religion.
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