David Berman

From Philosopedia

Berman, David (20th Century)

Berman is the author of A History of Atheism in Britain: From Hobbes to Russell (1988) and George Berkeley: Idealism and the Man (1994).

A professor philosophy at Dublin’s Trinity College, he shows, according to Tim Madigan of Free Inquiry,

• that atheism, while not openly avowed until late in the eighteenth century, was implicit in many of the writings of some of the seventeenth century’s most influential thinkers. Even in the present day, it remains the view that dare not speak its name.

Berman’s research has been said to continue and sometimes correct that of J. M. Robertson. He has written book reviews for the British New Humanist.

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