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Oct 28, 2012 · Kurtz, a forceful leader of the secular humanism movement that holds human freedom and creativity supreme, died Oct. 20 at his home in Amherst, N.Y. He was 86. An earlier version of this obituary ...
Paul Kurtz will be long remembered as the late century’s pre- twentieth eminent philosophical defender of freethinking rationalism and skepticism, the scientific worldview to replace superstition and religion, the healthy ethics of humanism, and democracy’s foundation in secularism. Reason, science,
Apr 21, 2008 · Paul Kurtz was a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was founder and chairman of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (formerly CSICOP), the Council for Secular Humanism, Center for Inquiry, and Prometheus Books. He was editor-in-chief of Free Inquiry magazine; a Fellow of the American Association ...
Paul Kurtz is editor-in-chief of FREE INQUIRY and professor emeritus of philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. ... Secular Humanism.
Oct 25, 2012 · Paul Kurtz, UB professor emeritus of philosophy and a leading figure in the secular humanism movement, died Oct. 20 in his Amherst home.He was 86. Often referred to as “the father of secular humanism,” Kurtz was the founder and longtime CEO of the Center for Inquiry, an Amherst-based think tank that promotes skepticism and humanism.
Paul Kurtz (born December 21, 1925 in Newark, New Jersey) is a prominent American skeptic and secular humanist. He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, having previously also taught at Vassar, Trinity, and Union colleges, and the New School for Social Research.
A Secular Humanist Declaration was an argument for and statement of support for democratic secular humanism. The document was issued in 1980 by the Council for Democratic and Secular Humanism (CODESH), now the Council for Secular Humanism (CSH). [1] Compiled by Paul Kurtz, it is largely a restatement of the content of the American Humanist ...
