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32 - Analytic Philosophy

from Part VI - Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Intellectual and Artistic Currents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2021

Michael Ruse
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Sara Rachel Chant
Edited by
Stephen Bullivant
Michael Ruse
Affiliation:
Florida State University
Stephen Bullivant
Affiliation:
St Mary's University, Twickenham, London
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According to a 2015 survey, 72.2 percent of all philosophy professors in the United States are atheists (Bourget and Chalmers 2014). This is a striking figure, especially considering that the United States overall is far more religious than other western nations. According to the Pew Research Center, only about 3.1 percent of Americans are atheists (Pew Research Center 2015). Furthermore, the high percentage of atheists among American philosophy professors is not found among American academics as a whole. Even in that group, the proportion of atheistic philosophy professors is still more than twice as high (Gross 2007). Notwithstanding some prominent Christian philosophers, American philosophers are a very atheistic group indeed.

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The Cambridge History of Atheism , pp. 585 - 599
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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