The Cambridge Companion to AtheismMichael Martin Cambridge University Press, 2006 M10 30 In this 2007 volume, eighteen of the world's leading scholars present original essays on various aspects of atheism: its history, both ancient and modern, defense and implications. The topic is examined in terms of its implications for a wide range of disciplines including philosophy, religion, feminism, postmodernism, sociology and psychology. In its defense, both classical and contemporary theistic arguments are criticized, and, the argument from evil, and impossibility arguments, along with a non religious basis for morality are defended. These essays give a broad understanding of atheism and a lucid introduction to this controversial topic. |
Contents
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2 Atheism in Modern History | 27 |
3 Atheism | 47 |
4 Theistic Critiques of Atheism | 69 |
5 The Failure of Classical | 86 |
6 Some Contemporary Theistic | 102 |
7 Naturalism and Physicalism | 118 |
8 Atheism and Evolution | 135 |
10 The Argument from Evil | 166 |
11 Kalam Cosmological Arguments | 182 |
12 Impossibility Arguments | 199 |
13 Atheism and Religion | 217 |
14 Feminism and Atheism | 233 |
15 Atheism and the Freedom of Religion | 250 |
16 Atheism Atheology and | 267 |
17 Anthropological Theories of Religion | 283 |
9 The Autonomy of Ethics | 149 |
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