Recommending Reading

This is a list of recommended reading material, the veracity and usefulness of which we can personally attest to.

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/General Secularism/

God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens 2007

The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins, 2006

Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris, 2006

The End of Faith, Sam Harris, 2004

Why I Am An Atheist: A former preacher rejects Christianity, John Loftus, 2008

Good Without God, Greg Epstein, 2009

Breaking the Spell, Daniel Dennett, 2006

The Moral Landscape, Sam Harris, 2010

The Secular Conscience, Austin Dacey

/On Science/

Authors: Richard Dawkins, Patricia Churchland, Oliver Sacks, Ben Goldacre, Michael Shermer, Daniel Dennett, Stephen Jay Gould, Susan Blackmore, Douglas Adams, Robert Wright, Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow

The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins, 1976

Consciousness Explained, Daniel Dennett, 1991

Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, Daniel Dennett, 1995

The Extended Phenotype, Richard Dawkins, 1982

The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins, 1986

The Greatest Show on Earth, Richard Dawkins, 2010

/Philosophy/

Naturally, I’m not going to list every philosopher to have made notable contributions to the field.

Daniel Dennett, Patricia Churchland, Louis Pojman, David Chalmers, Bertrand Russell, Baron d’Holbach, Colin McGinn