tommorris

Book recommendations

12 books

tommorris · Mar 29, 2010
The God Delusion is a popular book, not a scholarly refutation of all arguments for the existence of God.
tommorris · Mar 30, 2010
A good introduction to the basic things which philosophers in the Anglo-American/analytic tradition worry about
tommorris · Mar 30, 2010
how he deals with this is an interesting problem is a model of clarity and philosophical excellence.
tommorris · Mar 30, 2010
Gadamer isn't like that. He sets out to try and answer the question "how do we understand texts?"
tommorris · Mar 29, 2010
Russell's "Why I Am Not A Christian"
tommorris · Mar 29, 2010
Robin Le Podevin's "Arguing for Atheism"
tommorris · Mar 29, 2010
Michael Martin's "Atheism: A Philosophical Justification"
tommorris · Mar 29, 2010
A slightly easier read is Julian Baggini's "Atheism: A Very Short Introduction" which is okay.
tommorris · Mar 29, 2010
I found Onfray's "In Defence of Atheism" a pretty good read - it is polemical, but is well-written.
tommorris · Mar 29, 2010
the much less read compilation "Russell on Religion"
tommorris · Mar 29, 2010
Another good book from an agnostic rather than atheist perspective is Anthony Kenny's "The God of the Philosophers".
tommorris · Mar 29, 2010
Nick Everett's "The Non-Existence Of God"