Posts Tagged ‘ Religion ’

Philosophical atheism reconsidered

Nov 17th, 2009 | By Frederik Mortensen | Category: All Post, Books, Frontpage, Philosophy, Religion

Two books have appeared recently, which both address the issue of atheism, secular life and whether or not philosophy leads to atheism. Both books are collections of personal essays written by prominent philosophers.
The first book, Philosophers without Gods, makes a defense for philosophical atheism and tries, in opposite to the new atheist (Dawkins and Denneth [...]



“Religious Naturalism” Demystified

Jul 16th, 2009 | By Susan Baretto | Category: All Post, Convergence, Religion

This interview was broad in the religion-science newsletter, Convergence Vol. 2 No. 6
Jerome Stone discusses his research of a growing philosophical movement
Jerome Stone is not one to shy away from touchy subjects. His focus when it comes to religion has been a concept that is not often publicly discussed and sounds like a simpler idea [...]



IRAS Conference 2009

Jul 2nd, 2009 | By Frederik Mortensen | Category: All Post, Blog, Conference

The IRAS conference this year was an epochal experience for my studies. Despite the fact that this year was my first IRAS (or ‘Star’) conference, I didn’t keep a low profile. I was among the first participants to present a poster on my research, which came out to be a very resourceful form of presentation.
Beside [...]