Quentin Smith, in an article published in 2001 (The Metaphilosophy of Naturalism, Philo vol 4 no 2), pointed to a renewal of theistic viewpoints within academic philosophy and expressed his concern that naturalist philosophers had been slow to respond to the sophistication of theistic arguments. Part of the problem, he …
The philosophical underpinning of the atheist worldview is generally termed “naturalism”, in opposition to the supernatural which we can conceive of as the domain of miracles, divine intervention and so on. This distinction may seem intuitive enough. Then we want to ask, what does naturalism consist of and is it …
The central point of atheism is that the universe is fundamentally impersonal. There is no getting away from it so let’s take this point head-on. I accept the consequences of this viewpoint and I claim that it is true, that the cosmos cares not a jot for me or you …
Some folks may remember that I operated an atheist website for a number of years (atheistguide.com) until I found for various reasons that I wasn’t really keeping up on maintaining it and it was best to let it lapse for a while. For some time my intention was to bring …