Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction 1Graham Oppy
Part I Individual Thinkers 13
1 Hume 15Jennifer Smalligan Marušić
2 Holbach 28Michael LeBuffe and Emilie Gourdon
3 Marx 43Vanessa Wills
4 Wollstonecraft 58Sandrine Bergès
5 Cady Stanton 71Claudette Fillard
6 Russell 83Carolyn Swanson
Part II Philosophical Movements 97
7 Empiricism 99Gregory Dawes
8 Pragmatism 111Robert Almeder
9 Existentialism 123Mariam Thalos
10 Postmodernism 138Christopher Watkin
11 Naturalism 152Eric Steinhart
Part III Critiques of Theism 167
12 Logical Objections to Theism 169Stephen Law
13 Evidential Objections to Theism 191Herman Philipse
14 Normative Objections to Theism 204Stephen Maitzen
15 Prudential Objections to Theism 216Guy Kahane
Part IV Metaphysics 235
16 Freedom 237Alfred Mele
17 Supernatural 250Berit Brogaard
18 Death 262Beth Seacord
Part V Epistemology 275
19 Skepticism 277Duncan Pritchard
20 Methods of Science 291Elliott Sober
21 Evidence 303Michael Tooley
22 Evolution 323Michael Ruse
Part VI Ethics 341
23 Meta-Ethics 343Elizabeth Tropman
24 Meaning 355Thaddeus Metz
25 Normative Skepticism 367Susana Nuccetelli
Part VII Politics 381
26 Education 383Jennifer Bleazby
27 Happiness 396Gregory S. Paul
28 Violence 421Steve Clarke
29 Church and State 436Cristina Lafont
Part VIII Critiques of Atheism 449
30 Logical Objections to Atheism 451Christopher Gregory Weaver
31 Evidential Objections to Atheism 476Helen De Cruz
32 Normative Objections to Atheism 491C. Stephen Evans
33 Prudential Objections to Atheism 506Amanda Askell
Bibliography 521
Index 565