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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT | Are You Making the Most of Your Life?: Why Read Fully Human/Fully Alive

by Lyle L. Simpson • 17 April 2024

I have often been asked to explain what it means to become Fully Alive, the title of my book. To really be able to answer that you must understand Humanistic Psychology, which was first defined... Read More

PHILOSOPHICALLY SPEAKING | The Morality of Atheism

by Phil Zuckerman • 14 June 2022

According to the latest General Social Survey results—and for the first time in such survey history—the percentage of Americans who are absolutely convinced of God’s existence has fallen below 50%. And just last year, Gallup... Read More

PHILOSOPHICALLY SPEAKING | A New Dimension for Humanism?

by Jamie Woodhouse and Amy Halpern-Laff • 12 October 2021

Why does humanism center human needs and interests alone? Humanist ethics are based on compassion for other humans because we know, from our own lives and from science, that other humans experience suffering and joy... Read More

PHILOSOPHICALLY SPEAKING | Humans Becoming Gods—or Chips in a Cosmic Computer?

by Frank S. Robinson • 25 February 2020

Yuval Noah Harari is a thinker of big ideas. An Israeli historian, he wrote Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), about how we got where we are. Where we’re going was addressed in the... Read More

PHILOSOPHICALLY SPEAKING | Simulation Rhapsody: How to Be Real Even If It’s All Fake

by Brody Armstrong • 22 October 2019

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? —“Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen At our current rate of technological advancement—especially in the fields of computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), and video rendering—it may only be... Read More

PHILOSOPHICALLY SPEAKING | An Atheist with a Tall Hat On: The Forgotten History of Agnosticism

by Nathan G. Alexander • 19 February 2019

One sometimes gets the impression that religious and nonreligous people alike consider agnosticism a more rational and sophisticated creed than atheism. On the contrary, agnosticism differs from atheism in name only. The distinction between the... Read More

PHILOSOPHICALLY SPEAKING | Life’s a Bitch: An Atheistic Theology of Grace

by Taylor Thomas • 23 October 2018

“Life’s a bitch, and then you die.” At least, that’s the gospel according to acclaimed rapper Nas. I can’t remember the circumstances that placed that song on a music roster generally made up of Elton... Read More

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