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Chapter 20 - Mr. Hume: Tear. Down. This. Wall.

A Response to George Ellis’ Critique of My Defense of Moral Realism

from Part IV - Scientia Humanitatis: Reflections on Scientific Humanism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2020

Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer
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Chapman University, California
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Following the publication of the article in the journal Theology and Science, the journal received a well-reasoned critique by the physicist George Ellis, which they published in a subsequent issue of Theology and Science, along with my response, which appears here. These two essays constitute my manifesto of Enlightenment Humanism through the worldview of Scientific Naturalism and, in fact, are the cornerstone of an even larger worldview I am working on now, hinted at in the subtitle of this book, Scientific Humanism.

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moralityethicsGeorge EllisDavid HumeIs-Ought FallacyNaturalistic FallacySecond Law of ThermodynamicsEntropySteven PinkerNonzeroRobert Wright
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Giving the Devil his Due
Reflections of a Scientific Humanist
 , pp. 236 - 242
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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