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    The new atheist denial of history.Borden W. Painter - 2014 - New York, NY: Palgrave-Macmillan.
    Challenging new atheist history -- The twentieth century -- Europe 1600 to 1900 -- Europe to 1600 -- Back to the present -- What's at stake.
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    A History of Atheism in Britain: From Hobbes to Russell.David Berman - 1988 - Routledge.
    Probably no doctrine has excited as much horror and abuse as atheism. This first history of British atheism, first published in 1987, tries to explain this reaction while exhibiting the development of atheism from Hobbes to Russell. Although avowed atheism appeared surprisingly late – 1782 in Britain – there were covert atheists in the middle seventeenth century. By tracing its development from so early a date, Dr Berman gives an account of an important and fascinating (...)
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    Atheists: the origin of the species.Nick Spencer - 2014 - London: Bloomsbury Academic.
    The clash between atheism and religion has become the defining battle of the 21st century. Books on and about atheism retain high profile and popularity, and atheist movements on both sides of the Atlantic capture headlines with high-profile campaigns and adverts. However, very little has been written on the history of atheism, and this book fills that conspicuous gap. Instead of treating atheism just as a philosophical or scientific idea about the non-existence of God, Atheists: (...)
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    A History of Atheism in Britain, from Hobbes to Russell.David Berman - 1988 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 185 (4):512-513.
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    The Cambridge History of Atheism 2 Volume Hardback Set.Stephen Bullivant (ed.) - 2021 - Cambridge University Press.
    The two-volume Cambridge History of Atheism offers an authoritative and up to date account of a subject of contemporary interest. Comprised of sixty essays by an international team of scholars, this History is comprehensive in scope. The essays are written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including religious studies, philosophy, sociology, and classics. Offering a global overview of the subject, from antiquity to the present, the volumes examine the phenomenon of unbelief in the context of Christian, Islamic, (...)
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  6. The Cambridge History of Atheism.Stephen Bullivant (ed.) - 2021 - Cambridge University Press.
    The two-volume Cambridge History of Atheism offers an authoritative and up to date account of a subject of contemporary interest. Comprised of sixty essays by an international team of scholars, this History is comprehensive in scope. The essays are written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including religious studies, philosophy, sociology, and classics. Offering a global overview of the subject, from antiquity to the present, the volumes examine the phenomenon of unbelief in the context of Christian, Islamic, (...)
     
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    An atheism that is not humanist emerges in French thought.Stefanos Geroulanos - 2010 - Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
    This book seeks to explain the critiques of humanism and the "negative" philosophical anthropologies that dominated mid-century philosophy and traces the ...
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    Atheism, religion and enlightenment in pre-revolutionary Europe.Mark Curran - 2012 - Rochester, NY: Boydell Press.
    This book examines the reception of the works of the baron d'Holbach throughout francophone Europe. It insists that d'Holbach's historical importance has been understated, argues the case for the existence of a significant 'Christian Enlightenment', and much more.
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    Religious atheism: twelve philosophical apostles.Erik Meganck - 2023 - Albany: State University of New York Press.
    Calls into question the traditional polarity of theism and atheism.
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    A history of Atheism in Britain: from Hobbes to Russell.Nicholas Tyacke - 1989 - History of European Ideas 10 (4):487-488.
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    A History of Atheism in Britain: From Hobbes to Russell.Antony Flew - 1989 - Philosophical Books 30 (2):126-128.
  12. Early-Modern Irreligion and Theological Analogy: A Response to Gavin Hyman’s A Short History of Atheism.Dan Linford - 2016 - Secularism and Nonreligion 5 (1):1-8.
    Historically, many Christians have understood God’s transcendence to imply God’s properties categorically differ from any created properties. For multiple historical figures, a problem arose for religious language: how can one talk of God at all if none of our predicates apply to God? What are we to make of creeds and Biblical passages that seem to predicate creaturely properties, such as goodness and wisdom, of God? Thomas Aquinas offered a solution: God is to be spoken of only through analogy (the (...)
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    ATHEISM AT THE AGORA - (J.C.) Ford Atheism at the Agora. A History of Unbelief in Ancient Greek Polytheism. Pp. viii + 210. London and New York: Routledge, 2024. Cased, £130, US$170. ISBN: 978-1-032-49299-5. [REVIEW]John Henry - 2024 - The Classical Review 74 (1):262-264.
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    A History of Atheism in Britain. [REVIEW]Shabbir Akhtar - 1991 - International Studies in Philosophy 23 (1):100-101.
  15. What David Hart's Atheist Delusions Has to Teach Us concerning the Rise and Fall of Christianity's Cultural Dominance in the History of the West.James Keating - 2011 - Nova et Vetera 9:319-334.
     
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    The hammer of the Cartesians: Henry More's philosophy of spirit and the origins of modern atheism.David Leech - 2013 - Leuven: Peeters.
    Henry More was probably the most important English philosopher between Hobbes and Locke. Described as the 'hammer' of the Cartesians, More attacked Descartes' conception of spirit as undermining its very intelligibility. This work, which analyses an episode in the evolution of the concept of spiritual substance in early modernity, looks at More's rational theology within the context of the great seventeenth century Cartesian controversies over spirit, soul-body interaction, and divine omnipresence. This work argues that More's new, univocal spirit conception, highly (...)
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    Review: A Short History of Atheism[REVIEW]Dan Linford - 2015 - Secularism and Nonreligion 4 (1):1-2.
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    Atheism, Agnosticism, and Theism.Paul Cliteur - 2010 - In The Secular Outlook. Oxford, UK: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 14–68.
    This chapter contains sections titled: The Alpha Privative Atheism and Liberal Concepts of God Atheism as an Unpopular Position A Definition of Atheism Motives for Atheism Atheist Values Spiritual Excellences and the Liberal Decalogue Agnosticism The History of Agnosticism Huxley and Russell Pascal's Wager Pascal's Insight Atheism or Non‐Theism?
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    Sources of modern mass atheism in Russia.Edmund Taylor Weiant - 1953 - [College Park, Md.],: [College Park, Md.].
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    Epicureans and Atheists in France, 1650–1729.Alan Charles Kors - 2016 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Atheism was the most foundational challenge to early-modern French certainties. Theologians and philosophers labelled such atheism as absurd, confident that neither the fact nor behaviour of nature was explicable without reference to God. The alternative was a categorical naturalism, whose most extreme form was Epicureanism. The dynamics of the Christian learned world, however, which this book explains, allowed the wide dissemination of the Epicurean argument. By the end of the seventeenth century, atheism achieved real voice and life. (...)
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  21. Theism, atheism, and big bang cosmology.William Lane Craig & Quentin Smith - 1993 - New York: Oxford University Press. Edited by Quentin Smith.
    Contemporary science presents us with the remarkable theory that the universe began to exist about fifteen billion years ago with a cataclysmic explosion called "the Big Bang." The question of whether Big Bang cosmology supports theism or atheism has long been a matter of discussion among the general public and in popular science books, but has received scant attention from philosophers. This book sets out to fill this gap by means of a sustained debate between two philosophers, William Lane (...)
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    Review Essay: A Metaphysical History of Atheism.Vittorio Hösle - 2010 - Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 14 (1):52-65.
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    D. Berman, A History of Atheism in Britain, from Hobbes to Russell, London and New York, Routledge, 1990, pp. x + 253.James E. Crimmins - 1993 - Utilitas 5 (2):337.
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    Atheism Considered as a Christian Sect.Stephen R. L. Clark - 2015 - Philosophy 90 (2):277-303.
    Atheists in general need share no particular political or metaphysical views, but atheists of the most modern, Western, militant sort, escaping from a merely nihilistic mind-set, are usually humanists of an especially triumphalist kind. In this paper I offer a critical analysis and partial history of their claims, suggesting that they are members of a distinctively Christian heretical sect, formed in reaction to equally heretical forms of monotheistic idolatry.
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    Atheism and the rise of science.Taner Edis - 2013 - In Stephen Bullivant & Michael Ruse (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Atheism. Oxford University Press. pp. 398.
    Atheists, conservative theists, and religious liberals often read the history of science in ways that support their own position. Atheists expect continual mutual support between science and nonbelief, conservatives emphasize theistic metaphysical foundations for science; and liberals find a historical development toward separate spheres for science and religion. The rise of science was more complicated than anticipated by any of these stories. Atheism and science have usually developed almost independently, with weak connections. Today, the naturalism of modern scientific (...)
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  26. ‘Spinoza’s ‘Atheism’, the Ethics and the TTP.Yitzhak Melamed - forthcoming - In Spinoza: Reason, Religion, Politics: The Relation Between the Ethics and the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus.
    The impermanence of human affairs is a major theme in Spinoza’s discussions of political histories, and from our present-day perspective it is both intriguing and ironic to see how this very theme has played out in the evolving fate of Spinoza’s association with atheism. While Spinoza’s contemporaries charged him with atheism in order to impugn his philosophy (and sometimes his character), in our times many lay readers and some scholars portray Spinoza as an atheist in order to commemorate (...)
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    Discussion on scientific atheism as a Soviet science, 1960-1985.Kimmo Kääriäinen - 1989 - Helsinki: Distributor, Akateeminen Kirjakauppa.
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    Atheism for Dummies.Dale McGowan - 2013 - For Dummies.
    _The easy way to understand atheism and secular philosophy_ For people seeking a non-religious philosophy of life, as well as believers with atheist friends, _Atheism For Dummies_ offers an intelligent exploration of the historical and moral case for atheism. Often wildly misunderstood, atheism is a secular approach to life based on the understanding that reality is an arrangement of physical matter, with no consideration of unverifiable spiritual forces. _Atheism For Dummies_ offers a brief history of atheist (...)
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  29. Was Hume An Atheist?Shane Andre - 1993 - Hume Studies 19 (1):141-166.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Was Hume An Atheist? Shane Andre Hume's philosophy of religion, as expressed in the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, the Natural History of Religion, and sections 10 and 11 ofthe Enquiry ConcerningHuman Understanding,1 invites a number of diverse interpretations. At one extreme are those who see Hume as an "atheist"2 or "anti-theist."3 At the other extreme are those who see Hume as some kind of theist, though not a (...)
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    The Problem of Atheism.Augusto Del Noce - 2021 - Chicago: McGill-Queen's University Press. Edited by Carlo Lancellotti.
    In 1964, Augusto Del Noce assembled in a book some of his best works on Marxism, atheism, and the history of modern philosophy. The result was Il problema dell’ateismo, which he always regarded as foundational to his way of thinking. The book remains his best-known work and is still in print in Italy almost sixty years later. The Problem of Atheism offers the first English translation of this landmark book, one of the earliest works to recognize the (...)
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    Atheism is Nothing but an Expression of Buddha-Nature.Gereon Kopf - 2021 - Sophia 60 (3):607-622.
    The theism-atheism debate is foreign to many Mahāyāna Buddhist thinkers such as the Japanese Zen Master Dōgen. Nevertheless, his philosophy of ‘expression’ is able to shine a new light on the various incarnations of this debate throughout history. This paper will explore a/theism from Dōgen’s philosophical standpoint. Dōgen introduces the notion of ‘expression’ to describe the concomitant vertical and horizontal relationships of the religious project, namely the relationship between the individual and the divine as well as the relationship (...)
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  32. Following Atheism: on a Debate in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theory.Thomas Brockelman - 2012 - International Journal of Žižek Studies 6 (1).
    Setting out from a debate between two contemporary Lacanians about the religious significance of psychoanalysis, this paper argues that what such analysis really has to offer to a discussion of religion is purloined by the current round of academic polemics about its "revival." This argument is built in three steps: in the first, I demonstrate that the "site" of a meeting of psychoanalysis and religion is the "fundamental fantasy," tracing that concept's history from its Freudian pre-history through Lacan (...)
     
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    Atomism, Atheism, and the Spontaneous Generation of Human Beings: The Debate over a Natural Origin of the First Humans in Seventeenth-Century Britain.Matthew R. Goodrum - 2002 - Journal of the History of Ideas 63 (2):207-224.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Ideas 63.2 (2002) 207-224 [Access article in PDF] Atomism, Atheism, and the Spontaneous Generation of Human Beings: The Debate over a Natural Origin of the First Humans in Seventeenth-Century Britain Matthew R. Goodrum The problem of human origins, of how and when the first humans appeared in the world, has been addressed in a variety of ways in western thought. In the (...)
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    The Myth of Man. On the Atheism and Humanism of Albert Camus. [REVIEW]F. Manthey - 1969 - Philosophy and History 2 (1):36-37.
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    “Scientific Atheism” in Action.Svetlana Klimova & Elena Molostova - 2013 - Forum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 18 (2):169-190.
    This paper discusses the methodological challenges of Soviet sociology of religion in the period between 1960 and 1989, when it was charged with the contradictory task of investigating the actual standing of religion in Soviet society and, at the same time, with proposing methods through which the official “scientific atheism,” deeply rooted in Marxism, could be imposed upon the very populations that were the subject of its inquiries. The authors propose an insight into the actual practices of the researchers, (...)
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    “Scientific Atheism” in Action.Svetlana Klimova & Elena Molostova - 2014 - Forum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 18 (2):169-190.
    This paper discusses the methodological challenges of Soviet sociology of religion in the period between 1960 and 1989, when it was charged with the contradictory task of investigating the actual standing of religion in Soviet society and, at the same time, with proposing methods through which the official “scientific atheism,” deeply rooted in Marxism, could be imposed upon the very populations that were the subject of its inquiries. The authors propose an insight into the actual practices of the researchers, (...)
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  37. Late-Twentieth-Century atheism.Graham Oppy & Nick Trakakis - 2009 - In Graham Oppy & Nick Trakakis (eds.), Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Religion: The History of Western Philosophy of Religion, Volume 5. Routledge. pp. 301-12.
    This chapter provides a brief account of atheistic philosophy of relgion in the second half of the twentieth century.
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    The Philosophy Book: From the Vedas to the New Atheists: 250 Milestones in the History of Philosophy.Gregory Bassham - 2016 - New York: Sterling, an imprint of Sterling Publishing Co..
    Philosophy explores the deepest, most fundamental questions of reality and this accessible and entertaining chronology presents 250 milestones of the most important theories, events, and seminal publications in the field over the last 3,500 years. The brief, engaging entries cover a range of topics and cultures, from the Hindu Vedas and Plato's theory of forms to Ockham's razor, Pascal's wager, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, existentialism, feminism, Philosophical zombies, and the Triple Theory of Ethics. Beautifully illustrated and filled with (...)
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    Leaving the Allah delusion behind: atheism and freethought in Islam.Ibn Warraq - 2020 - Tübingen: Schiler & Mücke.
    Freethought and atheism in classical Islam -- Arabic philosophy and its influence on Western freethought -- The treatise of the three impostors : Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, and its origins in Islam -- Averroes and Ibn Tufayl, and their influence on Western freethought -- Atheism, freethought and Islam in the 19th, 20th, and 21st Century -- Conclusion : The Allah that failed.
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  40. Whither New Atheism?Graham Oppy - 2017 - In Christopher R. Cotter, Philip Andrew Quadrio & Jonathan Tuckett (eds.), New Atheism: Critical Perspectives and Contemporary Debates. Dordrecht, Netherlands: pp. 15-31.
    In order to give a proper estimation of the place of the New Atheism in history, we shall need to have before us an overview of that history. So I shall begin with an appropriate sketch. Then I will try to give an account of the current global state of play, and to indicate some reasons why it seems reasonable to think that the worldview of the New Atheists is currently gaining ground, at least in certain quarters. (...)
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    Gavin Hyman: A Short History of Atheism: London, UK: I.B. Tauris, 2010, xx and 212 pp $85.00 , $25.00 Russell Blackford and Udo Schüklenk : 50 Voices of disbelief: why we are atheists Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, ix and 346 pp, $94.95 , $29.95. [REVIEW]Herbert Berg - 2013 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 73 (1):77-80.
  42. Theism and Atheism: Opposing Viewpoints in Philosophy.Graham Oppy & Joseph W. Koterski (eds.) - 2019 - Farmington Hills: MacMillan Reference.
    This book is a discussion of a wide range of topics that bear on the existence of God. For each topic, there is a chapter by one (or more) theists, and a chapter by one (or more) atheists. Topics: (1) Definition; (2) Method; (3) Logic; (4) Doxastic Foundations; (5) Religious Experience; (6) Faith and Revelation; (7) Miracles; (8) Religious Diversity; (9) Causation and Sufficient Reason; (10) A Priori; (11) Our Universe; (12) Human History; (13) Human Beings; (14) Ethics; (15) (...)
     
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  43. Review of "The New Atheism, Myth, and History: The Black Legends of Contemporary Anti-Religion" by Nathan Johnstone. [REVIEW]Lloyd Strickland - 2021 - Numen 68:303-305.
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    Defining and redefining atheism: dictionary and encyclopedia entries for “atheism” and their critics in the anglophone world from the early modern period to the present.Nathan G. Alexander - 2020 - Intellectual History Review 30 (2):253-271.
    How should one define “atheism”? The first response to such a question might be: “look it up in the dictionary”. The dictionary in question is, as Rosamund Moon has cleverly put it, the “Unidentifi...
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  45. The Cambridge Companion to Atheism.Michael Martin (ed.) - 2006 - Cambridge University Press.
    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. (...)
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    Atheist Therapy: Radical Embodiment in Early Modern Medical Materialism.Charles Wolfe - forthcoming - Diametros:1-16.
    Materialism as a doctrine is, of course, a part of the history of philosophy, even if it was often a polemical construct, and it took until the 18th century for philosophers to be willing to call themselves materialists. Difficulties also have been pointed out in terms of “continuity,” i.e., does what Democritus, Lucretius, Hobbes and Diderot have to say about matter, the body and the soul all belong in one discursive and conceptual frame? Interestingly, materialism is also a classic (...)
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    David Berman, "A History of Atheism in Britain: From Hobbes to Russell". [REVIEW]Richard H. Popkin - 1992 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 30 (1):143.
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  48. The evolution of atheism.Stephen LeDrew - 2012 - History of the Human Sciences 25 (3):70-87.
    Atheism has achieved renewed vigor in the West in recent years with a spate of bestselling books and growing membership in secularist and rationalist organizations, but what exactly is the nature of this peculiar form of non-belief? This article sets the context for the emergence of the ‘New Atheism’ with a review of the dominant theory of atheism’s dialectical and theological origins, and an examination of major historical episodes in atheistic thought. The author argues that a significant (...)
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    A Short History of Atheism. By Gavin Hyman. Pp. xx, 212, London, I. B. Tauris, 2010, $26.00. [REVIEW]Glenn B. Siniscalchi - 2018 - Heythrop Journal 59 (3):630-631.
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    Atheistic Existentialist Ethics.Richard H. Beis - 1965 - Modern Schoolman 42 (2):153-177.
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