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Nicholas Everitt
Born21 October 1943 (1943-10-21) (age 81)
Occupation(s)Philosopher, writer

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.[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

References

  1. ^ a b c "Nick Everitt's Homepage". Retrieved 12 February 2021.
  2. ^ Rice, Hugh (2005). "Reviewed Work: The Non-Existence of God by Nicholas Everitt". The Philosophical Quarterly. 55 (221): 692–693.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "The Non-Existence of God". Routledge. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "The Non-Existence of God: An Introduction". Internet Infidels. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
  7. ^ "Reasoning Away God". New Humanist. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
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