50
VOICES OF DISBELIEF
edited by Russell
Blackford and Udo Schuklenk
My next book will be an edited collection, put together by Udo Schuklenk and myself. This was provisionally entitled Voices of Disbelief, and will be published in September 2009 with a final title 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists.
Udo is an eminent German-born philosopher, now based in
The book has grown from Udo's idea to put together a collection of confessions or explanations of their lack of religious belief, written by a wide range of people. In late 2007 and early 2008, we approached a large number of prominent atheists, humanists, and religious sceptics, seeking their support for the idea. Many of them replied enthusiastically. We've been working with them ever since.
As a result, 50
Voices of Disbelief will appear from Blackwell Publishing in 2009.
Blackwell is a major academic publisher based in
50 Voices of Disbelief will contain fifty essays by prominent authors, philosophers, journalists, and others who reject belief in religious dogma, including the existence of the Abrahamic God. These will be new essays by contributors aged from their 20s to their 80s, from all over the world. We think it's a wonderful line-up.
Here's a full roll-call of the contents in order of appearance in the book:
Introduction: Now More Important than
Ever Voices of Reason Russell Blackford and Udo Schuklenk
Unbelievable! Russell Blackford
My Bye Bull Story Margaret
Downey
How benevolent is God? An argument
from suffering to atheism Nicholas Everitt
A Deal-breaker Ophelia Benson
Why Am I a Nonbeliever? I Wonder...
J. L. Schellenberg
Wicked or Dead? Reflections on the moral
character and existential status of God John Harris
Religious Belief and Self-Deception
Adθle Mercier
The Coming of Disbelief J.J.C.
Smart
What I Believe Graham Oppy
Too Good to Be True, Too Obscure to
Explain: The Cognitive Shortcomings of Belief in God Thomas W. Clark
How to Think About God: Theism, Atheism,
and Science Michael Shermer
A Magician Looks at Religion James
Randi
Confessions of a Kindergarten Leper
Emma Tom
Beyond Disbelief Philip Kitcher
An ambivalent nonbelief Taner Edis
Why Not? Sean M. Carroll
Godless Cosmology Victor J.
Stenger
Unanswered Prayers Christine
Overall
Beyond Faith and Opinion Damien
Broderick
Could it be pretty obvious theres no God?
Stephen Law
Atheist, obviously Julian Baggini
Why I am Not a Believer A.C.
Grayling
Evil and Me Gregory Benford
Whos Unhappy? Lori Lipman Brown
Reasons to be Faithless Sheila
A.M. McLean
Three Stages of Disbelief Julian
Savulescu
Born Again, Briefly Greg Egan
Cold Comfort Ross Upshur
The Accidental Exorcist Austin
Dacey
Atheist Out of the Foxhole Joe
Haldeman
The Unconditional Love of Reality
Dale McGowan
Antinomies Jack Dann
Giving up ghosts and gods Susan Blackmore
Some thoughts on why I am an atheist
Tamas Pataki
No Gods, Please! Laura Purdy
Welcome Me Back to the World of the
Thinking Kelly O'Connor
Kicking Religion Goodbye
Peter
Adegoke
On credenda Miguel Kottow
Not even start to ignore those
questions! A voice of disbelief in a different key Frieder Otto Wolf
Imagine No Religion Edgar Dahl
Humanism as Religion: An Indian
Alternative Sumitra Padmanabhan
Why I am NOT a theist Prabir Ghosh
When the Hezbollah came to my school
Maryam Namazie
Evolutionary Noise, not Signal from
Above Athena Andreadis
Gods Inside Michael R. Rose and
John P. Phelan
Why Morality Doesnt Need Religion
Peter Singer and Marc Hauser
Doctor Who and the Legacy of Rationalism
Sean Williams
My non-religious life: A journey from
superstition to rationalism Peter Tatchell
Helping People to Think Critically About
Their Religious Beliefs Michael Tooley
Human Self-Determination, Biomedical
Progress, and God Udo Schuklenk
I'll update this page with more information as the project develops.
Russell Blackford, April 2008 (last update March 2009).