13 must-read philosophy books like The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution by Christopher Hitchens

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The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution

By: Christopher Hitchens

3.99

Format: 154 pages, Kindle Edition

At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as “the four horsemen,” the …

"The great cultural project... may very well be to rescue what we have of the art and aesthetic of religion while discarding the supernatural."

-Christopher Hitchens, The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution

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1. Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

By: Richard Dawkins , Dan Barker , Dan Barker

3.97

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

One man shares the story of his transformation from evangelical Christian to atheist and examines t… read more

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"Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" …"

-Richard Dawkins, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

"But we exist now. We are caring, intelligent animals and can treasure our brief lives. Why is eternal better than temporal, or supernatural "higher" than natural? Doesn't rarity increase value? God i…"

-Richard Dawkins, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

"Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces or shrines. It has no sin, divine judgment, forbidden wo…"

-Richard Dawkins, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

"People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my certainty. I usually reply with a question like, 'Well, are you a Republican or an A…"

-Richard Dawkins, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

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2. Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

By: Richard Dawkins

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Keats accused Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow by explaining the origin of its colour… read more

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"We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones."

-Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

"Abraham was left in no doubt that the future lay with his seed, not his individuality. God knew his Darwinism."

-Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

"A brain that is good at simulating models in imagination is also, almost inevitably, in danger of self-delusion."

-Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born."

-Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

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3. A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

By: Richard Dawkins , Lawrence M. Krauss

3.94

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how e… read more

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"Forget Jesus. The stars died so you could be here today."

-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

"أنا غير كفؤ للحديث عن اللاشيء، لأن رجال الدين والفلاسفة هم خبراء في لاشيء!"

-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

"...nuestro universo desaparecerá tan abruptamente como, probablemente, empezó."

-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

"We live at a very special time. . . the only time when we can observationally verify that we live at a very special time!"

-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

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4. The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

By: Sam Harris

3.90

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

In The End of Faith, Sam Harris delivers a startling analysis of the clash between reason and relig… read more

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"Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love"

-Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

"Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance."

-Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

"120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer."

-Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

"Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction."

-Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

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5. Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist

By: Richard Dawkins

3.50

Format: 290 pages, Audio CD

The legendary biologist, provocateur, and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense… read more

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6. The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True

By: Richard Dawkins , Dave McKean

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Magic takes many forms. Supernatural magic is what our ancestors used in order to explain the world… read more

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7. The God Delusion

By: Richard Dawkins

3.90

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

A preeminent scientist - and the world's most prominent atheist - asserts the irrationality of beli… read more

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"Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism."

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

"نؤمن بنظريةالتطور لان الادلة تدعمها وسنرفضها بين ليلة وضحاها عندما تظهر ادلة تنفيها"

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

"لا تلقن اطفالك بل علمهم طريقة التفكير المستقلة وكيفية التاكد من الادلة وكيف يمكنهم مخالفتك فى الرأي"

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

"As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian."

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

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8. Free Will

By: Sam Harris

4.26

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think abo… read more

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9. Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness

By: Daniel C. Dennett

4.27

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

Combining ideas from philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, Daniel Dennett leads th… read more

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10. The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

By: Sam Harris

3.99

Format: 512 pages,

Sam Harris' first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion… read more

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11. Lying

By: Sam Harris

3.78

Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition

As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life. Most forms of private vic… read more

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12. Why There Is No God: Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God

By: Armin Navabi , None

3.67

Format: 499 pages,

* "Science can't explain the complexity and order of life; God must have designed it to be this way… read more

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13. Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

By: Sam Harris

3.80

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris's new book is a gu… read more

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14. River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

By: Richard Dawkins , Lalla Ward

4.14

Format: 438 pages, Paperback

How did the replication bomb we call "life" begin and where in the world, or rather, in the univers… read more

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15. Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

By: Daniel C. Dennett

3.74

Format: 646 pages,

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16. Letter to a Christian Nation

By: Sam Harris

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

In response to The End of Faith, Sam Harris received thousands of letters from Christians excoriati… read more

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"There had been ample warning that a storm “of biblical proportions"

-Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation

"These data are unequivocal: we are building a civilization of ignorance."

-Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation

"Faith is like a pockpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms."

-Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation

"Faith is like a pickpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms."

-Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation

17. Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue

By: Sam Harris , Maajid Nawaz

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this deeply informed and absorbing exchange, Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz present an antidote to … read more

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18. The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution

By: Christopher Hitchens

3.99

Format: 154 pages, Kindle Edition

At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as “the four horsemen,” the … read more

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"The great cultural project... may very well be to rescue what we have of the art and aesthetic of religion while discarding the supernatural."

-Christopher Hitchens, The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution

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19. Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism

By: Richard Dawkins

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Should we believe in God? In this new book, written for a new generation, the brilliant science wri… read more

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"These beliefs contradict each other, so they can’t be all right"

-Richard Dawkins, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism

"If I’d been born in ancient Greece, I’d worship Zeus and Aphrodite"

-Richard Dawkins, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism

"But failure to disprove something is not a good reason to believe it."

-Richard Dawkins, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism

"There are so many different faiths. How do you know the holy book you have been brought up with is the true one? And if all the others are wrong, what makes you think your holy book isn't wrong too?"

-Richard Dawkins, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism

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20. From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

By: Daniel C. Dennett

3.77

Format: 477 pages, Paperback

How did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists ha… read more

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"Comprehension is not the source of competence or the active ingredient in competence; comprehension is composed of competences."

-Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

"That's a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit to cultivate."

-Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

"We Homo sapiens are the only species (so far) with richly cumulative culture, and the key ingredient of culture that makes this possible is language."

-Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

"Don’t be afraid of a little metaphor; it won’t bite you, but you should always make sure you know how to cash it in for unvarnished fact when you feel the urge."

-Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

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21. Making Sense

By: Sam Harris

4.14

Format: None pages, Audiobook

FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF 'WAKING UP' and 'THE END OF FAITH', AN ADAPTATION OF HIS WILDLY POP… read more

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"Every person is a puppet who didn't pick his own strings and those strings reach back to the big bang."

-Sam Harris, Making Sense

"If your denial of death is sufficiently explicit and persuasive that you believe death isn't real, then what you deny isn't death but the significance of life."

-Sam Harris, Making Sense

"The fascist says, "It's not what you think, or what you think you know, that is important. The only truth is whether or not you feel subjectively, spiritually, part of a larger national community __ …"

-Sam Harris, Making Sense

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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

Richard Dawkins , Lawrence M. Krauss

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins

3.90

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Letter to a Christian Nation

Sam Harris

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution

Christopher Hitchens

3.99

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Transform Your Habits

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

David Deutsch

4.18

Transform Your Habits

A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

Richard Dawkins , Lawrence M. Krauss

3.94

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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

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3.36

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Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation

Alan W. Watts , Mark Watts

3.75

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