PROSE 2020 Single Volume Reference Finalist! 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 atheism as the lack of belief in a higher
power, the reasoned, reflective, and thoughtful rejection of theism
has become commonplace in many modern intellectual circles,
including academic philosophy where disciplinary data indicates
that a large majority of philosophers self-identify as atheists. As
the first book of its kind to bring together a collection of
writing on the philosophical aspects of atheism both historical and
contemporary, the Companion to Atheism and Philosophy stages an
explicit, constructive, and comprehensive conversation between
philosophy and atheism to examine the ways in which atheist thought
intersects with ideas and positions from a variety of philosophical
and theological sub-disciplines. The Companion begins by addressing
the foundational questions and lingering controversies which
underpin philosophical thought about atheism, exploring the
implications of major developments in the history of philosophy for
the modern atheistic worldview. Divided into eight distinct
sections, essays consider a range of thinkers who were widely
believed to have been atheists--including David Hume, Mary
Wollstonecraft, Karl Marx, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton--and survey
different kinds of objections to theism and atheism, including
logical, evidential, normative, and prudential. Later chapters
trace the relationship between atheism and metaphysics,
epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy oriented around
topics such as pragmatism, postmodernism, freedom, education,
violence, and happiness. Deftly curated and thoughtfully composed,
A Companion to Atheism and Philosophy is the most ambitious and
authoritative account of philosophical thinking on atheism
available, and is a first-rate resource for academics,
professionals, and students of philosophy, religious studies, and
theology.
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