Russell Blackford & Udo Schüklenk 
50 Voices of Disbelief 
Why We Are Atheists

50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists presents a
collection of original essays drawn from an international group of
prominent voices in the fields of academia, science, literature,
media and politics who offer carefully considered statements of why
they are atheists.

* Features a truly international cast of contributors, ranging
from public intellectuals such as Peter Singer, Susan Blackmore,
and A.C. Grayling, novelists, such as Joe Haldeman, and heavyweight
philosophers of religion, including Graham Oppy and Michael
Tooley

* Contributions range from rigorous philosophical arguments to
highly personal, even whimsical, accounts of how each of these
notable thinkers have come to reject religion in their lives

* Likely to have broad appeal given the current public
fascination with religious issues and the reception of such books
as The God Delusion and The End of Faith

İçerik tablosu

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

1. Unbelievable!

2. My ‘Bye Bull’ Story.

3. How Benevolent Is God? – An Argument from Suffering to
Atheism.

4. A Deal-Breaker.

5. Why Am I a Nonbeliever? – I Wonder … .

6. Wicked or Dead? Reflections on the Moral Character and
Existential Status of God.

7. Religious Belief and Self-Deception.

8. The Coming of Disbelief.

9. What I Believe.

10. Too Good to Be True, Too Obscure to Explain: The Cognitive
Shortcomings of Belief in God.

11. How to Think About God: Theism, Atheism, and Science.

12. A Magician Looks at Religion.

13. Confessions of a Kindergarten Leper.

14. Beyond Disbelief.

15. An Ambivalent Nonbelief.

16. Why Not?

17. Godless Cosmology.

18. Unanswered Prayers.

19. Beyond Faith and Opinion.

20. Could It Be Pretty Obvious There’s No God?

21. Atheist, Obviously.

22. Why I am Not a Believer.

23. Evil and Me.

24. Who’s Unhappy?

25. Reasons to be Faithless.

26. Three Stages of Disbelief.

27. Born Again, Briefly.

28. Cold Comfort.

29. The Accidental Exorcist.

30. Atheist Out of the Foxhole.

31. The Unconditional Love of Reality.

32. Antinomies.

33. Giving Up Ghosts and Gods.

34. Some Thoughts on Why I Am an Atheist.

35. No Gods, Please!

36. Welcome Me Back to the World of the Thinking.

37. Kicking Religion Goodbye….

38. On Credenda.

39. ‘Not Even Start to Ignore Those Questions!’ A Voice of
Disbelief in a Different Key.

40. Imagine No Religion.

41. Humanism as Religion: An Indian Alternative.

42. Why I Am NOT a Theist.

43. When the Hezbollah Came to My School.

44. Evolutionary Noise, not Signal from Above.

45. Gods Inside.

46. Why Morality Doesn’t Need Religion.

47. Doctor Who and the Legacy of Rationalism.

48. My Nonreligious Life: A Journey From Superstition to
Rationalism.

49. Helping People to Think Critically About Their Religious
Beliefs.

50. Human Self-Determination, Biomedical Progress, and God.

About the Contributors.

Index.

Yazar hakkında

Russell Blackford is a freelance writer, critic, and editor,
based in Melbourne, Australia. He teaches part-time in the School
of Philosophy and Bioethics at Monash University, where he
specialises mainly in philosophical bioethics and legal/political
philosophy. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Evolution
and Technology, an on-line peer reviewed journal devoted to
rigorous consideration of future prospects for the human species or
its possible descendants.

Udo Schüklenk is a German-Australian philosopher. He
has written or edited five books and published over one hundred
articles in peer reviewed journals and books. His latest books are
the co-edited volumes The Power of Pills (2006) and The
Bioethics Reader (Blackwell, 2007). He is the Joint
Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Bioethics and
currently the Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics at Queen’s
University in Canada. His current research focuses on ethical and
policy issues in drug research and development.