John Shook
John Shook is Vice President and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Inquiry Transnational in Amherst, N.Y., and Research Associate in Philosophy at the University at Buffalo, since 2006. He has authored and edited more than a dozen books, is a co-editor of three philosophy journals, and travels for lectures and debates across the United States and around the world.
Of Reputations and Harsh Words
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September 29, 2010
By pointing at a small sub-set of people and trying to defend the rest, a harsh label has gotten out of hand.Atheist Pride in Understanding Religion
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September 28, 2010
God Fails a Simple Rationality Test
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September 21, 2010
If a God wants us to believe, that God demands irrationality.Attacking Fundamentalism is not the only Atheist Agenda
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September 14, 2010
Why limit atheist criticism to just the fundamentalists?The Science of Morality
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September 7, 2010
Science can help with morality, if ethics is willing to be scientific.Are Brains Destined for Religion?
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August 25, 2010
When God Calls, Don’t Answer
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August 18, 2010
Why Should I be Moral?
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August 10, 2010
Have you had some self-righteous religious believer throw this challenge at you?Christopher Hitchens, accidental Atheist
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August 4, 2010
The new memoir by Hitchens is hardly about atheism, but instead about its principled foundations.Can Science eliminate Religious Faith?
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July 27, 2010
When science "explains" a feature of religion, does that successfully make religion irrational?The Secular and the Sacred
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July 20, 2010
The secular and the sacred stretch out towards a shared direction.Could an Atheist convert to Christianity? Part 2.
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July 13, 2010
Could Christians expect that atheists would convert any more easily than people already of other faiths?Understanding the Public is Easier than Understanding Science
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July 6, 2010
If you want to be popular, tell the people what they already believe.Could an Atheist convert to Christianity?
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June 30, 2010
Christians plead for conversions from atheists. But do Christians really think such conversions are possible?Secularism and Humanist Morality
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June 21, 2010
If secular humanism has answers about morality, the precise aim must first be clear.Religion creates Blasphemy, not Atheism
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June 15, 2010
Atheism wastes everyone's time by worrying over how much blasphemy to commit.Is Atheism as impotent as Stephen Prothero thinks?
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June 8, 2010
Atheism deserves some credit for reducing religious divisions.An Atheist’s Guide to What You Need to Know about Theology
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June 4, 2010
Theologians hate being ignored. Since their own flocks haven't a clue what they are talking about, they pester atheists.What is Secularism? by Robert Green Ingersoll
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June 1, 2010
Robert Green Ingersoll was one of America's greatest freethinkers.Religious Certainty is a Dangerous Weapon
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May 25, 2010
Psychological pathologies like certainty must not be defended or encouraged.The Need for Naturalism in a Scientific Age
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May 18, 2010
Is any philosophy really needed anymore, in this age of science?Sam Harris vs. The Philosophers on Morality
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May 14, 2010
Sam Harris thinks that science can help with morality. Humanists should hope that he is right.Science is not equivalent to Naturalism
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May 10, 2010
Correcting stereotypes about Science and Religion
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May 4, 2010
There are differences between science and religion, but perhaps not where you have supposedIf Humanists overlook Evil, do they commit a Secular Sin?
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April 27, 2010
Humanists wonder if their worldview can have any role for "sin" or "evil"Secularity and Secularism explained
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April 20, 2010
A handy guide to varieties of the secularBiology textbooks should stay out of Religion
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April 14, 2010
It is inappropriate for a biology text to directly address a damaging social trend that is hurting the teaching of scienceThe Naturalistic Approach to Morality
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April 13, 2010
There is Objective Morality in Nature
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April 6, 2010
Naturalism can accomodate objective morality, if you know where to look for it.But who caused the Big Bang?
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March 31, 2010
