"I think I put up a post saying, briefly, that Philip Kitcher’s Living with Darwin was a very good short book. Here is an extract answering a question that has often puzzled me - and, incidentally, suggesting why Dennett’s book will have come as news to many of his readers
There are good reasons why Darwin, not Wellhausen or Hume or Voltaire, is taken as the leader of the opposition to what is valuable and sacred.
For the enlightenment case is not widely appreciated, and most of the brilliant thinkers who have developed it are unread, if not unknown. More exactly, they tend to be unread and unknown in the United States. Adolescent students in European schools study some of the relevant figures, to a lesser extent in Britain, to a much greater extent in the countries of Western continental Europe. American defenders of super-naturalist or providentialist religions, some of them literalists about Genesis,"
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