God must create the best. But there is no Therefore, God. Various philosophers—among them Stephen Grover and William Rowe—have endorsed more elaborate versions of this argument. Dean Zimmerman (in “Resisting Rowe’s No-Best-World Argument for Atheism”) has subjected their defenses argument to careful scrutiny—scrutiny that was in fact so remains very little say about This essay contains my attem...

Abstract In this article, I discuss how Nietzsche’s critique of nihilism concerns the complicity between Christian morality and modern atheism. unpack in what sense Schopenhauer’s ascetic denial will signifies a return to nothingness, he calls nihil negativum . argue that formulation specifically targets pessimism as culmination Western metaphysical tradition, crucial stage its intellectual his...

Stance classification aims to identify, for a particular issue under discussion, whether the speaker or author of a conversational turn has Pro (Favor) or Con (Against) stance on the issue. Detecting stance in tweets is a new task proposed for SemEval-2016 Task6, involving predicting stance for a dataset of tweets on the topics of abortion, atheism, climate change, feminism and Hillary Clinton....

Both contemporaries and historians have focused on the high-profile 1874 Belfast Address in which John Tyndall was widely perceived as promulgating atheism. Although some historians have instead interpreted him as a pantheist or an agnostic, it is clear that any such labels do not accurately capture Tyndall’s religious position throughout his life. By contrast, this paper seeks to chart Tyndall...