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Informationen zum Autor Richard Curtis is an adjunct professor of philosophy at Seattle Central Community College and the Cornish College of the Arts in Washington. Klappentext This book seeks to bring together a range of discussions, both critical and apologetic, each of which examines some element or function of religion. Covering a wide range of topics, including ethics, religious pluralism, the existence of God, and reasonableness of Islam, these pieces have in common arguments that are made in careful and scholarly ways_they represent reasonable perspectives on a wide swath of contemporary religious debates, in contrast to the unreasonableness that creeps into discussions on religion in American society. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Table of Contents 2 Preface Chapter 3 1. Worldview is the Brain's Operating System Chapter 4 2. The God Debates and the Materialist Interpretation of History Chapter 5 3. Sense and Nonsense in Religion and Belief Chapter 6 4. All Religions are Cousins: Religion in Human Evolution Chapter 7 5. Hegel's Metaphysics and Religious Pluralism Chapter 8 6. Getting "Ought" from "Is": A Practical Solution for Materialists Chapter 9 7. Towards a Neuropathy of Empathy Chapter 10 8. Ethics and the Fabric of the Universe Chapter 11 9. The Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God: An Apologia Chapter 12 10. God as Moral Praxis Chapter 13 11. Towards a Materialist Theology, Or, Why Atheists (and Marxists) Should Write Theology Chapter 14 12. Is Islam Reasonable? Chapter 15 13. Types of Religious Naturalism
