FRAGILITIES OF SCIENTISM: Richard Dawkins and the Paranoiac Idealization of Science

2000 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Richard Dawkins

A Farewell to Hume

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Steane
Keyword(s):  
David Hume ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Religious Language ◽  
Richard Dawkins ◽  
False Premise

A well-known argument of David Hume is presented and refuted. The argument concerns the notion that the natural world may be self-contained, for all we know, and religious claims are superfluous. This is essentially the position also advocated by Richard Dawkins, in slightly different terms. These arguments are presented, and then it is explained that they fail, owing to what amounts to a false premise. This is subtle because the false premise is in the very way the discussion is framed. If one assumes that when we are talking about God we are talking about abstract intellectual tools, then one goes wrong. Various witnesses are invoked to show that thoughtful religious language operates differently.

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 369-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gudmundur Markusson
Keyword(s):  
Richard Dawkins

scholarly journals Dialectics or politics? Atheism and the return to religion

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin Hyman
Keyword(s):  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Richard Dawkins ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
History Of ◽  
Contemporary Context ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Much scholarly attention has been given to the vast differences in understandings of theism throughout the history of the theological tradition. Rather less attention has been given to differences in understandings of atheism. That there are and have been such differences, however, is obvious. This may be seen in the contemporary context if we juxtapose the ‘newly visible’ atheisms of, for instance, Richard Dawkins and Slavoj Žižek. In previous work, I and several other scholars have drawn attention to the ways in which the existence of different forms of atheism may be explained by the fact that they are responding to and negating very different forms of theism. But there may well be more at stake in differences between atheisms than this.

scholarly journals Kazus (anty)duchowości behawiorysty radykalnego B. F. Skinnera – perspektywa psychobiograficzna

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-198
Author(s):  
Andrzej Pankalla ◽  
Agnieszka Wiatrowska
Keyword(s):  
Daniel Dennett ◽  
Richard Dawkins ◽  
Ayn Rand

Celem artykułu jest pokazanie, jak wychowanie religijne, którego doświadczył B. F. Skinner, zmieniło jego postrzeganie człowieka i świata, a w ostateczności wpłynęło na porzucenie przez niego wiary i skierowało go na ścieżkę radykalnego behawioryzmu. Analiza dostępnej literatury wykazuje, że różnica w poglądach przeciwników Skinnera (Joseph Wood Krutch, Tomasz Szasz, Ayn Rand) oraz jego sojuszników (Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris) polega na ich odmiennym wychowaniu i złożonych życiowych doświadczeniach. Powiązane z tym przekonania wpłynęły na pojmowanie przez nich duchowości czy wolnej woli.

scholarly journals The Forgotten meme. On the example of Life and works of Placyd Jankowski

2021 ◽  
Vol XXV (1) ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Patryk Chłopek
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Richard Dawkins

Placyd Jankowski (known also as John of Dycalp) was a popular writer active in the 1840s, he quickly gained popularity thanks to his humorous lyrics, but before his death in 1872 he was almost forgotten by readers. This raises questions about the rules guiding cultural memory. One of the concepts that could explain the process of cultural heredity is the memetic theory proposed by Richard Dawkins. The scholar assumes the existence of cultural units subject to the process of evolution, which he called memes. Their success and survival depend on the fulfillment of specific characteristics to which the human mind is particularly susceptible, i.e. topicality, originality, narrative, and universality. Using the tools developed by memetics, the article will attempt to describe the reasons for social forgetting on the example of the life and work of Placyd Jankowski.

scholarly journals Presentación del Dosier

Caminhando ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Denis Alves de Souza ◽  
Elizangela A. Soares ◽  
João Batista Ribeiro Santos ◽  
Lídia Maria de Lima
Keyword(s):  
Richard Dawkins

En 1993, Richard Dawkins, biólogo evolutivo crítico del creacionismo y del diseño inteligente, profesor de entendimiento público de la ciencia en la Universidad de Oxford, escribió una carta bastante provocativa al editor del diario inglés The Independent. Algunos extractos de la carta:

scholarly journals CONFLITO ENTRE CIÊNCIA E RELIGIÃO EM GOULD, HARRIS E DAWKINS

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 162
Author(s):  
Rogério Fernandes Silva
Keyword(s):  
Richard Dawkins ◽  
Stephen Jay Gould

um dos assuntos recorrentes do debate sobre o ateísmo é a identidade que a tese do conflito entre ciência e religião costuma ocupar no discurso. A criação e divulgação da “tese de conflito” tem respaldo nas obras neoateístas. Sendo muito importante tanto os posicionamentos mais favoráveis à religião, neste caso, temos as afirmações de Stephen Jay Gould, que luta contra os aspectos negativos da tese. Por outro lado há pensadores ateus como Sam Harris e Richard Dawkins, que estão contra as afirmações de Gould, como se a tese de conflito fosse parte importante da identicidade ateísta. Este trabalho visa pensar como os dois lados antagônicos se posicionam.

scholarly journals El origen de los sistemas normativos. Una propuesta desde la moral evolucionista

2016 ◽  
pp. 132-139
Author(s):  
Camilo Andrés Sepúlveda
Keyword(s):  
Richard Dawkins ◽  
Palabras Clave

  Nadie puede poner en duda que entre las características del ser humano se encuentra su naturaleza moral, y, muy probablemente, los sistemas normativos que el hombre en sociedad establece son el resultado de ella, sin embargo, no hay suficiente claridad acerca de cómo desarrollamos dicha naturaleza como especie humana. Una respuesta de tipo evolucionista sugeriría que si hay un rasgo característico distintivo en nosotros como especie debió ser el resultado de adaptaciones al medio en la lucha por sobrevivir. El objetivo de este artículo es revisar dos propuestas de este tipo, la de Ernst Tugendhat, según la cual los sistemas normativos son producto del desarrollo del lenguaje proposicional, y la de Richard Dawkins y su concepto de memes. Palabras clave: Evolucionismo moral, Lenguaje proposicional, Memes, Sistemas normativos.

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