In recent years writers from Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett to Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris have penned popular tracts advancing the cause of godlessness.

近年来的作家们，从理查德·道金斯和丹尼尔·达内特到克里斯托弗·希金斯和山姆·哈里斯，都曾为推动这一事业发表过脍炙人口的文章。

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One evening out on the Strip, I spotted Daniel Dennett, the Tufts University philosopher, hurrying along the sidewalk across from the Mirage, which has its own tropical rain forest and volcano.

有天晚上我在Las Vegas碰到了Tufts大学的哲学家Daniel Dennett。他正急匆匆沿着人行道从一片幻景中走过来，景色中有热带雨林和火山。

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The gloves come off, though, when Mr Searle comes to two philosophical colleagues, Daniel Dennett and David Chalmers.

ECONOMIST: Philosophy of consciousness

"For the last 20 years, the buzz about consciousness has been such that all kinds of smart people in all kinds of fields say this is mount Olympus, " says Daniel Dennett, the Tufts philosopher whose work has helped guide cognitive science.

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Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens are in the new vanguard of authors articulating atheism (Mr Harris thinks that people who are more moderate in their religion still do harm through a religious habit of mind that is no less irrational than fundamentalism).

ECONOMIST: Don't mention God