Nicholas Everitt
{{short description|English philosopher and atheist writer}}
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Nicholas Everitt (born 21 October 1943) is an English philosopher and atheist writer who specializes in epistemology and philosophy of religion.
Biography
Everitt obtained his degree in Moral Science from University of Cambridge and a postgraduate degree from University of Oxford.[http://www.philbooks.eclipse.co.uk/index.html "Nick Everitt's Homepage"]. Retrieved 12 February 2021. He was Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia and taught briefly at Fairfield University and Ngee Ann Polytechnic. 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.
Everitt is an atheist and his best known work is The Non-Existence of God, published by Routledge in 2003.{{cite journal|author=Rice, Hugh|year=2005|title=Reviewed Work: The Non-Existence of God by Nicholas Everitt|journal=The Philosophical Quarterly|volume=55|issue=221|pages=692–693}}{{cite journal|author=Davison, Scott A.|year=2007|title=Reviewed Work: The Non-Existence of God by Nicholas Everitt|journal=International Journal for Philosophy of Religion|volume=61|issue=2|pages=127–129|doi=10.1007/s11153-007-9116-y|s2cid=170168758}}[https://www.routledge.com/The-Non-Existence-of-God/Everitt/p/book/9780415301077 "The Non-Existence of God"]. Routledge. Retrieved 12 February 2021. Everitt argues that the divine attributes of God (omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, omnibenevolence) in traditional theism are individually self-contradictory or cannot be co-instantiated.{{cite journal|author=Tiller, Glenn|year=2006|title=The Non-Existence of God by Nicholas Everitt|journal=Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review|volume=45|issue=4|pages=777–779|doi=10.1017/S0012217300001335|s2cid=170979670 }}[https://infidels.org/kiosk/book/the-nonexistence-of-god-an-introduction-912.html "The Non-Existence of God: An Introduction"]. Internet Infidels. Retrieved 12 February 2021.[https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/720/reasoning-away-god "Reasoning Away God"]. New Humanist. Retrieved 12 February 2021. The book contains criticisms of all the standard theistic arguments (cosmological, ontological, moral, teleological). It was positively reviewed in academic journals.
Selected publications
- Modern Epistemology: A New Introduction (with Alec Fisher, 1995)
- [https://archive.org/details/NicholasEverittTheNonExistenceOfGod The Non-Existence of God] (2003)
- [https://www.pdcnet.org/philo/content/philo_2006_0009_0002_0113_0130 The Argument from Imperfection] (2006)
References
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External links
- [https://eastanglia.academia.edu/NicholasEveritt Nicholas Everitt] eastanglia.academia.edu
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Category:20th-century English philosophers
Category:21st-century English philosophers
Category:Academics of the University of East Anglia
Category:English writers on atheism
Category:British epistemologists
Category:British critics of Christianity
Category:British critics of religions