Atheists: Who is your favorite atheist philosopher?

Answer 1

Probably Nick Bostrom. The author of the Book "Anthropic Bias Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy"

http://www.anthropic-principle.com/book/

Understanding Selection Effects is the key to understanding complexity and why gods are not necessary.

Bostrom is not perfect, he screwed up badly in his analysis of the Doomsday argument but he addresses issues central to a modern understanding of reality.

Bostrom is the director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University. He is also the co-founder and current chair of the World Transhumanist Association.

Answer 2

I don't have a favorite philosopher. I read from a broad source of information so I don't start sounding religious.

Answer 3

Not exactly a philosopher per se, but I like Bertrand Russell quite a lot.

Answer 4

I'm currently reading Voltairine de Cleyre, an anarchist and atheist writer. She's a bit extreme, but deeply fascinating.

Answer 5

Dr. Neil degrasse Tyson. "the income of technological know-how is that it relatively is actual despite if or no longer you suspect in it." - Astrophysicist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson "comprehend that the very molecules that make up your physique, the atoms that build the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that have been as quickly as the facilities of extreme mass stars that exploded their chemically wealthy guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gasoline clouds with the chemistry of life. so as that we are all linked to a minimum of one yet another biologically, to the earth chemically and to the the remainder of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and that i easily sense fairly large on the top of that. It’s no longer that we are extra desirable than the universe, we are area of the universe. we are in the universe and the universe is in us." — Neil deGrasse Tyson "They allure to a extra physically powerful means purely whilst staring into the sea of their very own lack of expertise. They call on God purely from the lonely and precarious fringe of incomprehension. the place they sense specific approximately their motives, besides the undeniable fact that, God gets infrequently a point out." - via Neil deGrasse Tyson

Answer 6

Frederick neitchze

Answer 7

Diagoras

5th century. He openly declared that there were no gods, and chopped up a wooden statue of Hercules, and tossed it into his cooking fire. When observers expressed their shock, he basically said, "If he's a god, he can save himself."

Answer 8

Karl Marx lol

Answer 9

I would have to say, me.