Erik J. Wielenberg (born March 11, 1972) is an American

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DePauw University DePauw University ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Greencastle, Indiana, United States. It was founded in 1837 as Indiana Asbury College and changed its name to DePauw University in 1884. The college has a Methodist heritage and was ...

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. An

atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...

, Wielenberg defends nontheistic

moral realism Moral realism (also ethical realism) is the position that ethical sentences express propositions that refer to objective features of the world (that is, features independent of subjective opinion), some of which may be true to the extent that t ...

."Robust Ethics: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Godless Normative Realism"
ndpr.nd.edu. Retrieved 14 August 2022.

Selected publications

*''Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe'',

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, 2005, . *''God and the Reach of Reason: C.S. Lewis, David Hume, and Bertrand Russell'',

, 2008, . * Edited by ''New Waves in Philosophy of Religion'' with Yujin Nagasawa. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, . *''Robust Ethics: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Godless Normative Realism'',

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, 2014, . * With ''A Debate on God and Morality: What is the Best Account of Objective Moral Values and Duties?'' with

William Lane Craig William Lane Craig (; born August 23, 1949) is an American Analytic philosophy, analytic philosopher, Christian apologetics, Christian apologist, author, and theologian. He is a professor of philosophy at Houston Christian University and at the T ...

, edited by Adam Lloyd Johnson.

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, 2020, .

References

1972 births American non-fiction writers American atheists American ethicists Atheist philosophers DePauw University faculty Living people Moral realists Writers from Racine, Wisconsin {{US-theologian-stub