Paul Kurtz (1925–2012)
Auteur de Science and Religion
A propos de l'auteur
Paul Kurtz was born on December 21, 1925. He received a bachelor's degree from New York University and a master's degree and doctor of Philosophy degree from Columbia University. During World War II, he served in the United States Army and helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp in 1945. He afficher plus was a philosopher who focused on fighting prejudice against people who reject belief in a god and promoting a non-religious stance in life. He wrote or edited more than 50 books on ethics without religion, critiques of religion and the paranormal, and on skepticism, or the challenging of received wisdom. His works include The Transcendental Temptation, Forbidden Fruit: The Ethics of Secularism, The Courage to Become, Multi-Secularism: A New Agenda, and What is Secular Humanism? He founded the journal Free Inquiry and the secular humanist Center for Inquiry. He also taught at numerous universities including the State University of New York at Buffalo and Vassar. He died on October 20, 2012 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de Paul Kurtz
Skeptical Odysseys: Personal Accounts by the World's Leading Paranormal Inquirers (2001) 44 exemplaires
American philosophy in the twentieth century; a sourcebook from pragmatism to philosophical analysis (1966) 25 exemplaires
162-0: Imagine a Phillies Perfect Season: A Game-by-Game Anaylsis of the Greatest Wins in Phillies History (2011) 6 exemplaires
Dewey's Enduring Impact: Essays on America's Philosopher (2010) — Directeur de publication — 4 exemplaires
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Tolerance and revolution; a Marxist--non-Marxist Humanist Dialogue — Directeur de publication — 2 exemplaires
Free Inquiry, Fall 1995, Vol. 15 No. 4 2 exemplaires
Free Inquiry, Summer 1982, Vol. 2 No. 3 2 exemplaires
Free Inquiry, Summer 1995, Vol. 15 No. 3 2 exemplaires
Free Inquiry, Spring 1993, Vol. 13 No. 2 2 exemplaires
Free Inquiry, Summer 1993, Vol. 13 No. 3 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Winter 1994/95, Vol. 15 No. 1 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Fall 1994, Vol. 14 No. 4 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Fall 1996, Vol. 16 No. 4 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Winter 1996/97 , Vol. 17 No. 1 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Spring 1997, Vol. 17 No. 2 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Summer 1997, Vol. 17 No. 3 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Summer 1996, Vol. 16 No. 3 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Fall 1997, Vol. 17 No. 4 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Winter 1992/93, Vol. 13 No. 1 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Summer 1994, Vol. 14 No. 3 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Spring 1994, Vol. 14 No. 2 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Winter 1993/94, Vol. 14 No. 1 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Fall 1993, Vol. 13 No. 4 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Spring 1995, Vol. 15 No. 2 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Winter 1995/96 , Vol. 16 No. 1 1 exemplaire
The Humanist (Volume XXXVIII, Number 2) "Frontiers of Sex Research Issue: Homosexuality: A Disease? - Transsexual… 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry 2010 June/July 2010 Volume 30 Number 4 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry 2010 April/May 2010 Volume 30 Number 3 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry 2010 February/March Volume 30 Number 2 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Vol. 21, no. 4 'Richard Dawkins and the Honest Creationist' 'Three Arguments for Nonbelief' by Michael… 1 exemplaire
Neo-humanist statement of secular principles and values : personal, progressive, and planetary (2010) 1 exemplaire
Blair, main line : a history of the Tuckahoe Valley 1 exemplaire
Paul Kurtz 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Spring 1996, Vol. 16 No. 2 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Winter 1988/89 , Vol. 9 No. 1 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Fall 1992, Vol. 12 No. 4 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Summer 1983, Vol. 3 No. 3 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Fall 1985, Vol. 5 No. 4 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Summer 1985, Vol. 5 No. 3 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Spring 1985, Vol. 5 No. 2 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Winter 1984/85, Vol. 5 No. 1 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Fall 1984, Vol. 4 No. 4 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Summer 1984, Vol. 4 No. 3 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Spring 1984, Vol. 4 No. 2 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Winter 1983/84, Vol. 4 No. 1 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Fall 1983, Vol. 3 No. 4 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Spring 1983, Vol. 3 No. 2 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Spring 1986, Vol. 6 No. 2 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Winter 1982/83, Vol. 3 No. 1 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Fall 1982, Vol. 2 No. 4 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Spring 1982, Vol. 2 No. 2 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Winter 1981/82, Vol. 2 No. 1 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Fall 1981, Vol. 1 No. 4 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Summer 1981, Vol. 1 No. 3 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Spring 1981, Vol. 1 No. 2 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Winter 1980/81, Vol. 1 No. 1 1 exemplaire
FI: Free Inquiry Magazine, spring 1998 issue 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Winter 1985/86, Vol. 6 No. 1 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Fall 1986, Vol. 6 No. 4 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Summer 1992, Vol. 12 No. 3 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Spring 1990, Vol. 10 No. 2 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Spring 1992, Vol. 12 No. 2 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Winter 1991/92 , Vol. 12 No. 1 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Fall 1991, Vol. 11 No. 4 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Summer 1991, Vol. 11 No. 3 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Spring 1991, Vol. 11 No. 2 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Winter 1990/91 , Vol. 11 No. 1 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Fall 1990, Vol. 10 No. 4 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Winter 1989/90 , Vol. 10 No. 1 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Summer 1990, Vol. 10 No. 3 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Fall 1989, Vol. 9 No. 4 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Summer 1986, Vol. 6 No. 3 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Summer 1989, Vol. 9 No. 3 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Spring 1989, Vol. 9 No. 2 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Fall 1988, Vol. 8 No. 4 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Summer 1988, Vol. 8 No. 3 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Spring 1988, Vol. 8 No. 2 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Winter 1987/88, Vol. 8 No. 1 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Fall 1987, Vol. 7 No. 4 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Summer 1987, Vol. 7 No. 3 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Spring 1987, Vol. 7 No. 2 1 exemplaire
Free Inquiry, Winter 1986/87, Vol. 7 No. 1 1 exemplaire
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Fatima [1984 film] 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Kurtz, Paul Winter
- Date de naissance
- 1925-12-21
- Date de décès
- 2012-10-20
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Newark, New Jersey, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Amherst, New York, USA
- Études
- New York University (BA|Philosophy|1948)
Columbia University (PhD|Philosophy|1952)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 127
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 1,306
- Popularité
- #19,653
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 9
- ISBN
- 79
- Langues
- 2
It's a mixed bag of a collection. There are a number of articles -- mostly, I think, the ones that really grapple with the big philosophical issues -- that are eloquent, profound, provocative, and very much worth reading. Others, however, are disappointingly superficial. A number seem to be mostly variations on fairly standard arguments in favor of atheism, some of which take a rather dismissive tone about the whole thing. Many don't deal with the big-picture questions at all, but instead focus on some specific factual claim made by religious believers, often a small subset of religious believers, and whether it can be proved or disproved by science. (There is, for example, an entire section on Intelligent Design creationism.) And while those topics are no doubt worth talking about, I have to say that when I picked this book up, I wasn't exactly hoping for yet another creationism debate or a discussion about the Shroud of Turin. Also somewhat disappointing -- although in retrospect it probably shouldn't have been a surprise -- is the way that so much of it focuses so narrowly on Christianity. There seems to be to be something a little off about the idea of a book purporting to be about "science and religion" that barely acknowledges that non-Western religions even exist.
Rating: It's very hard to rate this one. The best stuff in it is very good indeed, but largish chunks of it really were just not at all what I was hoping for. I think I'm going to give it a slightly stingy 3.5/5.… (plus d'informations)