Paul Kurtz

Paul Kurtz ( born December 21, 1925 in Newark, New Jersey; † October 20, 2012 ) was Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Buffalo ( SUNY ). He was the founder and Chairman of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Think Tanks (CSI ), formerly the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP ), called the Council for Secular Humanism and the medium-sized book publisher Prometheus Books.

Kurtz was the chief editor of the journal Free Inquiry from the Council for Secular Humanism. He was Co - President (2nd Chair) of the International Humanist and Ethical Union ( IHEU ). He was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and president of the International Academy of Humanism. He was co-author of the Humanist Manifesto II The asteroid ( 6629 ) Kurtz was named after him.

The philosopher coined the term Eupraxsophie (originally Eupraxophie ), the philosophies and worldviews like secular humanism or Confucianism denotes that contain no reference to transcendence or Supernatural. The artificial word is a compound of the Greek words for good practice and wisdom love.

Works

  • The Transcendental Temptation: A Critique of Religion and the Paranormal, 1986 ISBN 0-87975-645-4
  • A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology (Paul Kurtz, editor ), 1985, Prometheus Books, ISBN 0-87975-300-5
  • Forbidden Fruit: The Ethics of Humanism, 1988, Prometheus Books, ISBN 0-87975-455-9 ( German: Forbidden fruit, Angelika Lenz Verlag, Neustadt a Ruebenberge 1998, ISBN 3-9804597-8-0 )
  • The New Skepticism: Inquiry and Reliable Knowledge, 1992, Prometheus Books, ISBN 0-87975-766-3
  • The Courage to Become, 1997, Praeger / Greenwood, ISBN 0-275-96016-1
  • Living Without Religion: Eupraxophy ( life without religion: Eupraxophie ) ISBN 0-87975-929-1
  • In Defense of Secular Humanism ISBN 0-87975-228-9
  • Challenges to the Enlightenment: In Defense of Reason and Science by Paul Kurtz, et al, 1994 ISBN 0-87975-869-4
  • Skepticism and Humanism: The New Paradigm, 2001 ISBN 0-7658-0051-9
  • Science and Religion by Paul Kurtz, et al, 2003 ISBN 1-59102-064-6
  • Affirmations: Joyful And Creative Exuberance, 2004 ISBN 1-59102-265-7
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