Nicholas Everitt (born 21 October 1943) is an English philosopher and atheist writer who specializes in epistemology and philosophy of religion.
Nicholas Everitt | |
|---|---|
| Born | 21 October 1943 (age 81) |
| Occupation(s) | Philosopher, writer |
Biography
editEveritt obtained his degree in Moral Science from University of Cambridge and a postgraduate degree from University of Oxford.[1] He was Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia and taught briefly at Fairfield University and Ngee Ann Polytechnic.[1] He taught for the Open University as an Associate Lecturer and after retirement currently teaches the AA308 course, "Thought and Experience – Themes in the Philosophy of Mind" and "The Existence of God" for the Department of Continuing Education at Lancaster University.[1]
Everitt is an atheist and his best known work is The Non-Existence of God, published by Routledge in 2003.[2][3][4] Everitt argues that the divine attributes of God (omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, omnibenevolence) in traditional theism are individually self-contradictory or cannot be co-instantiated.[5][6][7] The book contains criticisms of all the standard theistic arguments (cosmological, ontological, moral, teleological).[3] It was positively reviewed in academic journals.[3][5]
Selected publications
edit- Modern Epistemology: A New Introduction (with Alec Fisher, 1995)
- The Non-Existence of God (2003)
- The Argument from Imperfection (2006)
References
edit- ^ a b c "Nick Everitt's Homepage". Retrieved 12 February 2021.
- ^ Rice, Hugh (2005). "Reviewed Work: The Non-Existence of God by Nicholas Everitt". The Philosophical Quarterly. 55 (221): 692–693.
- ^ a b c Davison, Scott A. (2007). "Reviewed Work: The Non-Existence of God by Nicholas Everitt". International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. 61 (2): 127–129. doi:10.1007/s11153-007-9116-y. S2CID 170168758.
- ^ "The Non-Existence of God". Routledge. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
- ^ a b Tiller, Glenn (2006). "The Non-Existence of God by Nicholas Everitt". Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review. 45 (4): 777–779. doi:10.1017/S0012217300001335. S2CID 170979670.
- ^ "The Non-Existence of God: An Introduction". Internet Infidels. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
- ^ "Reasoning Away God". New Humanist. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
External links
edit- Nicholas Everitt eastanglia.academia.edu