A wave of modern atheists have taken center stage and brought the long-standing debate about the existence of God back into the headlines. Spearheaded by Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens, this 'new atheism' has found a powerful place in today's culture wars. Although this movement has been billed as 'new,' the foundation of ...
Comprehensive and up-to-date, this new edition of "A Dictionary of Philosophy" spans 2500 years of philosophical thought, and offers an invaluable reference to the student of philosophy and the general reader alike. It has extensive coverage of modern as well as historical fields, encompassing personalities, terminology and vocabulary. It extends ...
How does parapsychology differ from hard science? Since the origins of psychical research, parapsychology has been hard-pressed to convince sceptics that it is a legitimate science. This comprehensive collection of essays, edited by a distinguished philosopher and pioneering scholar in the field of parapsychological research, stimulates discussion ...
Practical reasoning and clear thinking are essential for everyone if we are to make sense of the information we receive each day. Being able to quickly know the difference between valid and invalid arguments, the contradictory versus the contrary, vagueness and ambiguity, contradiction and self-contradiction, the truthful and the fallacious, ...
This collection of essays by one of the world's most distinguished philosophers addresses the many and diverse aspects of atheistic humanism. Antony Flew begins his comprehensive study with 'Fundamentals of Unbelief', in which he argues that there is no good or sufficient natural reason to believe: that the universe was created by a conscious, ...
In this classic primer to the philosophy of religion, Antony Flew subjects a wide range of philosophical arguments for the existence of the Christian God to intense critical scrutiny. However, the rumour in some circles is that Flew - long-time advocate of atheistic humanism - has become a theist. Judge for yourself.
Despite the perennial hope of life beyond the grave, Flew shows that there are insuperable difficulties in elucidating post-mortem survival on a rational basis. He analyses the three ways that philosophers of the past have attempted to get around these difficulties: the 'reconstitutionist way' (miraculous reassembly of our deceased bodies at some ...
This work offers a reconsideration of political philosophy attacking the pursuit of what its pursuers call social justice. The world has seen the peaceful winning of the Cold War by the USA and its allies and the subsequent more or less successful attempts to establish democratically elected governments and propserous market economies in both the ...
Flew considers the great Kantian issues of "God, freedom, and immortality". He takes a new look at the arguments for the existence of God and the question of religious belief, and examines the claim that our lives can have meaning only by assuming the existence of God and human immortality. Throughout, Flew cleaves to the agnostic principle that ...
The Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth is the central tenet of the Christian faith. Resurrected? is a remarkable dialogue between the leading Christian scholar of the Resurrection and the worlds best-known philosophical atheist. Both participants agree to separate historical facts that occurred when Jesus died and shortly afterward. Habermas and ...
Stresses the importance of Hume's An Inquiry concerning Human Understanding not only as a philosophical text in its own right, but also as the starting point for developing an understanding of broader philosophical issues. Flew takes in such modern thinkers as Peirce, Wittgenstein, Frege, and Ryle. First published in 1961, this is a reprint of the ...
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The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
