Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
I sometimes have the impression that philosophers write books mainly for each other. Not so Daniel Dennett, whose latest book is aimed at ordinary civilians like us, and couched in language we can understand without... Read More
The Religion Virus: Why We Believe in God
In The Selfish Gene (1976) Richard Dawkins proposed the term “meme” as a unit of cultural transmission analogous to the gene, in that both are transmitters of information. The gene’s information is expressed in its... Read More
Book Review: The God Argument by A.C. Grayling
With his new book, The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism, A.C. Grayling, the London-based author of The Good Book: A Humanist Bible, gives us exactly what he promises in the book’s... Read More
Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels
Sikivu Hutchinson is an author and activist who promotes a progressive—and aggressive—conception of humanism that is at once feminist, anti-racist, anti-homophobic, anti-classist, and anti-imperialist. She has no patience for nontheists who focus primarily on church/state... Read More
Becoming More Fully Human: Religious Humanism as a Way of Life
“The human being is by nature a social animal (Ho anthrōpos phusei politikon zōon).” —Aristotle, Politics (see also Nicomachean Ethics) In 2006, three years after retiring as the head of the Meadville Lombard Theological School... Read More
Humanist Press Publishes First Novel: Kylie’s Heel
On August 15, 2013, Humanist Press is releasing Kylie’s Heel, the first novel for best-selling author Susan K. Perry and the first novel ever published by Humanist Press. Perry, a social psychologist, is the author... Read More
Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism
The knowledge we’ve gleaned from science has shrunk the remaining possible realm of deities to the infinitesimal. Religionists have responded by arguing that omnipotent deities exist perpetually beyond the detection of science. Half a century... Read More