How To Be An Agnostic

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List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgements xi

Introduction: There’s Something, Not Nothing 1

1. Socrates’ Quest: The Agnostic Spirit 20

2. Cosmic Religion: How Science Does God 48

3. How To Be Human: Science and Ethics 85

4. Socrates or Buddha? On Being Spiritual

But Not Religious 107

5. Bad Faith: Religion as Certainty 137

6. Christian Agnosticism: Learned Ignorance 167

7. Following Socrates: A Way of Life 199

8. How To Be An Agnostic: An A–Z 226

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