Titlebook: New Atheism: Critical Perspectives and Contemporary Debates; Christopher R. Cotter,Philip Andrew Quadrio,Jonath Book 2017 Springer Interna

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New Atheism, Open-Mindedness, and Critical Thinking,l thinking’. Not only do these authors believe that they themselves are critical thinkers, they also advocate critical thinking as a key element in their idealized atheistic future. This chapter has been written to assess the veracity of their claims to critical thinking in their engagements with ‘r

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,Epistemic Vices in Public Debate: The Case of ‘New Atheism’,, or vices of the mind, so we can call those criticisms ‘vice charges’. Although they are very common, it is unclear whether they are merely rhetorical or whether they are substantive criticisms. The aim of this chapter is therefore to offer a framework for articulating and assessing these charges.

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Vehicles of New Atheism: The Atheist Bus Campaign, Non-religious Representations and Material Cultunds. Discussion of New Atheism typically focuses on these intellectual aspects, attending to their coherence and impact. This chapter shifts attention from the ideal to the physical, demonstrating how New Atheism and related atheist cultural movements have impacted upon and worked through material e

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Collateral Damage,boundaries that ought to contain the contributions of public intellectuals to public discourse. With this apparatus in place the paper makes a case that due to its polemical nature and a surprisingly blasé attitude to facts and accuracy much New Atheist discourse not only fails to inform the public

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The Missing Element in New Atheist Critiques of Religion,ed to provide naturalistic explanations of how religion evolved and of the factors that continue to sustain it. These explanations are intended to displace, and weaken the appeal of, the sorts of traditional accounts the religious themselves are apt to provide. The accounts are framed mostly in the

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The Satirical Sacred: New Atheism, Parody Religion, and the Argument from Fictionalization,ainty, an issue especially evinced by the ever-expanding—and thus rather sundry—discourse within the academic study of Atheism. Adding to this the notion that within such an already equivocal category there exist different ‘types’ of Atheism, we begin to see many worrisome correlations between it an