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Putnam on metaphysics, religion, and ethics: critical notice of jewish philosophy as a guide to life: Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein
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Religion is a costly human activity that has evolved over the millennia. Why does it exist and how does it foster such powerful allegiances? To undertake a serious scientific study of religious practices and attitudes we must set aside a traditional exemption from scrutiny which religions have enjoyed. Religious adherents may not welcome this attention, but we should press ahead with it, since if we don't come to understand religion as a natural phenomenon, our attempts to deal with the problems that loom in the twenty-first century will likely be counterproductive.
Lecture 3. But see also two interesting critical discussions: David Copp's " The ontology of Putnam's Ethics Without Ontology) and David Weissman's " Review of Ethics Without Ontology
- See Putnam
See Putnam (2004) Lecture 3. But see also two interesting critical discussions: David Copp's " The
ontology of Putnam's Ethics Without Ontology " (Contemporary Pragmatism 3:2 (2006): 39–53)
and David Weissman's " Review of Ethics Without Ontology, " Metaphilosophy 36:3 (2005).
Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought Basic Books, 2001); Daniel Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon The God Delusion); and Scott Atran, In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion
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- Pascal Example
- Boyer
See, for example, Pascal Boyer, Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought
(New York: Basic Books, 2001); Daniel Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural
Phenomenon (New York: Penguin Books, 2006); Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (New York:
Houghton Mifflin, 2006); and Scott Atran, In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of
Religion (New York, Oxford UP, 2002).
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
- Sam See
- Harris
See, for example, Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (New
York: W. W. Norton and Co., 2004).
God is Not Great: How religion Poisons Everything
- Christopher See
- Hitchens
See, for example, Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great: How religion Poisons Everything (New
York: Hachette Book Group, 2007).