Challenging the New Atheism: Pragmatic Confrontations in the Philosophy of Religion Shepherd Aaron Pratt
Challenging the New Atheism: Pragmatic Confrontations in the Philosophy of Religion Shepherd Aaron Pratt This book presents a pragmatic response to arguments against religion made by the New Atheism…
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Challenging the New Atheism: Pragmatic Confrontations in the Philosophy of Religion Shepherd Aaron Pratt
This book presents a pragmatic response to arguments against religion made by the New Atheism movement. First, it provides an interpretation of the New Atheist movement that treats their claims as philosophical arguments and not just rhetorical exercises or demagoguery. 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.
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