Author: Keith Parsons
Keith Parsons, author of God and the Burden of Proof.
Give Us that Old-Time Atheism
Atheism: The Basics, by Graham Oppy (London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2019, ISBN 9781138506961). 190 pp. Paperback, $24.95. A few years back, an anomaly shook up the publishing world—atheist books became best sellers. Books by Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and others attracted a broad readership and garnered much attention. These so-called New Atheists offered …
Doing it Right
Doing Philosophy: From Common Curiosity to Logical Reasoning, by Timothy Williamson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0198822516). 176 pp. Hardcover, $18.95. Philosophy and philosophers have always had their detractors. In his Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce defined philosophy as “a route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.” When Bertrand Russell decided to study …
Jesus the Secular Humanist?
Atheism, Morality, and the Kingdom of God, by David K. Clark (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1-5275-1963-3). 177 pp. Hardcover, £58.99. How should an atheist read the Judaic/Christian scriptures, the Old and New Testaments? Some atheists see no other use for the Bible than to mine it for passages to discomfort believers. There …
What Matters Most?
A Meaning to Life, by Michael Ruse (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-0-19-093322-7). 216 pp. Hardcover, $21.95. “What is the meaning of life?” That is the kind of question that philosophers are presumed to address, yet many professional philosophers never ponder the issue, at least not explicitly. Surely, …