[b]TVO - Big Ideas, January 29 2011: Daniel Dennett on What Should Replace Religions?[/b]

Noted atheist and secularist Daniel Dennett delivers his lecture "What Should Replace Religions?" Dennett is Co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and a Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University.

For more information on this episode, including information on the guests and various other resources and links, visit the episode webpage: 
http://bigideas.tvo.org/episode/125964/daniel-dennett%3A-what-should-replace-religions%3F

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[b]Resources and links to related material[/b]

1) [url=http://hereticsway.gluontheferengi.com/2012/02/25/religion-is-a-purpose-engine/]Giovanni Dannato - Religion Is A Purpose Engine[/url]

Insight - The Wages of Secularism is Death[/url]

Feser - Some varieties of atheism[/url] 

[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/mar/15/society]John Gray on secular fundamentalists[/url]

[url=http://www.salon.com/2011/08/23/lind_humanism/]Michael Lind - Secular humanists on the real planet of the apes[/url]

2)Krauss - Down in the River to Pray[/url] 

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