Atheism & Philosophy

PHIL 3310. Exploring the philosophical, ethical, spiritual, existential, social, and personal implications of a godless universe, and supporting their study at Middle Tennessee State University & beyond.

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Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Winterton Curtis's humanism

Returned my old landlord’s book to the library, with a couple of inserted post-its to amuse and enlighten some hypothetical future borrower...

Monday, April 20, 2026

Why he says he’s not an atheist

Losing Faith in Atheism Early in my freshman year of college, a speeding car struck my twin brother, Jim, on a street near our c...

Anthropic Wants Claude to Be Moral. Is Religion Really the Answer?

In a public statement of its intentions for its Claude chatbot, the artificial intelligence company Anthropic has said that it wants Cla...

Sunday, April 12, 2026

The universe inside us

…Andrew Davison, a theologian at the University of Oxford who has written about the implications of extraterrestrial life, said in an inte...

A Light That’s Both Historical and Eternal’

Against atheism https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/opinion/jesus-christianity-atheism.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

I Am An American Philosopher: Phil Oliver – Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy

https://american-philosophy.org/i-am-an-american-philosopher-interview-series/i-am-an-american-philosopher-phil-oliver/

Saturday, February 28, 2026

Best books on humanism

"Humanist beliefs are almost like the common sense of large parts of the Western world today" https://fivebooks.com/best-books/hu...

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About Me

Phil: BIO. The author of "William James's Springs of Delight: The Return to Life," Phil Oliver specializes in the American philosophical tradition with supporting interests in applied ethics (particularly Bioethics and Environmental Ethics), Anglo-American literature, history, humanism, naturalism, science and exploration, peripatetic ("walking & talking") philosophy, baseball, cycling, swimming, the pursuit of happiness, and the perpetual dawn of day. One of his favorite MTSU courses is The Philosophy of Happiness. He is academic advisor for minors in American Culture (American Studies). You can follow him on Mastodon (@osopher@c.im) and on his blogsite Up@dawn but of course, as Immaneul Kant and Monty Python's Brian Cohen agreed: You don't have to follow anybody. "Sapere aude," have the courage to think for yourself. But not by yourself. Good philosophy collaborates and converses. (Full disclosure: finally replaced that profile photo caricature drawn by a London street artist many years ago. Current image from March 2020, at Spring Training in Scottsdale.

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