9 February 2017
While on some recent travels, I managed to grab a few words with Dr Patrick O’Connor about his book Atheism Reclaimed. In the short interview, I ask Patrick who, or what, he hopes to reclaim atheism from, and…
7 June 2014
While Alom Shaha, the author of The Young Atheist’s Handbook was in town to speak at the Cheltenham Science Festival, I managed to record a short audio interview just before he went off to speak. I asked him…
4 July 2013
Is Buddhism a form of Atheism? In this video I refer to texts you can find at http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ – you may want to look at the passage where Brahma asserts he is the supreme God, but.. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/dn.11.0.than.html#bigbrahma — Staff from the Religion, Philosophy…
13 November 2012
Another submitted question: Do you find Dawkins argument less convincing than Tinker and other contemporary philosophers because he is essentially a fundamentalist atheist? (The Edexcel textbook references this article: http://matthiasmedia.com/briefing/2006/10/dawkinss-dilemmas/) How could one criticise Tinker’s critique of Dawkins?…
6 February 2012
Dispirited: Does Contemporary Spirituality Make Us Stupid, Selfish & Unhappy?In a first for me, I’ll be giving a (free) public lecture as part of the Bible & Spirituality seminar series here at Gloucestershire.. I have also have a blog on this…
6 November 2011
Forgot I had done this! It is only an edited (not by me…) sample – but may provide some entertainment..d.
29 June 2011
[Short opinion by piece by me, on RE in schools – DW] There has been a lot of noise recently about school-based Religious Studies (or, to those of us over a certain age Religious Education / RE). Its…
14 April 2009
We will not meet on the first Thursday of May, but will meet on the first Thursday of June, the 4th. Gallery Room. Park Campus. 7pm. We will be reading The Brothers Karamazov, a personal favourite. But not…
9 January 2008
Here are the upcoming Gloucestershire Philosophical Society sessions- 1. 16th. January, 2008. Chris Eddy, Swindon Philosophical Society. :”Why I am not an atheist”. Chris Eddy accepts Philip Kitcher’s challenge, in ‘Living with Darwin’, to articulate a form of…
1 October 2007
Are atheists the unsung heroes of the modern age? You may have read in the papers that ‘Darwin’s rottweiler’ Richard Dawkins is spearheading a campaign in America to trumpet the voice of the nation’s atheists who are seemingly…