Erik Wielenberg (born March 11, 1972) is an

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and

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DePauw University DePauw University is a private liberal arts university in Greencastle, Indiana. It has an enrollment of 1,972 students. The school has a Methodist heritage and was originally known as Indiana Asbury University. DePauw is a member of both the G ...

Greencastle, Indiana Greencastle is a city in Greencastle Township, Putnam County, Indiana, United States, and the county seat of Putnam County. It was founded in 1821 by Ephraim Dukes on a land grant. He named the settlement for his hometown of Greencastle, Pennsylv ...

. As an atheist, 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 they ...

."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, . *''New Waves in Philosophy of Religion'' with

Yujin Nagasawa Yujin Nagasawa (born 23 June 1975) is a Japanese-born British philosopher specialising in the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of mind and applied philosophy. Nagasawa is H.G. Wood Professor of the Philosophy of Religion (formerly known as ...

. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, .

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