Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins DSc, FRS, FRSL (born Nairobi, 26 March 1941) is an English [6] biologist and writer.[7] He is an emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford,[8] and was the University of Oxford's Simonyi Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.[9][better source needed]
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| Born | Clinton Richard Dawkins 26 March 1941 (aged 84) | ||||||||||||
| Citizenship | United Kingdom | ||||||||||||
| Education | Oundle School | ||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (MA, DPhil) | ||||||||||||
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| Children | Juliet Emma | ||||||||||||
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| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley New College, Oxford University of Oxford New College of the Humanities | ||||||||||||
| Thesis | Selective pecking in the domestic chick (1967) | ||||||||||||
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| Influences | Charles Darwin, W. D. Hamilton, Nikolaas Tinbergen[4][5] | ||||||||||||
| Influenced | Andrew F. Read,[5] Helena Cronin,[5] John Krebs, Baron Krebs,[5] David Haig,[5] Alan Grafen,[5] Daniel Dennett,[5] David Deutsch,[5] Steven Pinker,[5] Martin Daly,[5] Margo Wilson,[5] Randolph M. Nesse,[5] Kim Sterelny,[5] Michael Shermer,[5] Richard Harries, Baron Harries of Pentregarth,[5] A. C. Grayling,[5] Marek Kohn,[5] David P. Barash,[5] Matt Ridley,[5] Philip Pullman[5] | ||||||||||||
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Dawkins is an atheist, a vice president of the British Humanist Association, and a supporter of the Brights movement.[10] He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 2006 book The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion, i.e. "a fixed false belief".[11]: Script error: The function "hyphen2dash" does not exist.  As of January 2010, the English-language version had sold more than two million copies and had been translated into 31 languages.[12] Dawkins' ideas on evolution were heavily influenced by W.D. Hamilton. The influence can be seen throughout Dawkins' book The Selfish Gene.
Works
Books
- "The Selfish Gene" (1976)
- "The Extended Phenotype" (1982)
- "The Blind Watchmaker" (1986)
- "River Out of Eden" (1995)
- "Climbing Mount Improbable" (1996)
- "Unweaving the Rainbow" (1998)
- "A Devil's Chaplain" (2003)
- "The Ancestor's Tale" (2004)
- "The God Delusion" (2006)
- "The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True" (2011)
- An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist (2013)
- "The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution" (2009)
Documentaries
- "Nice Guys Finish First" (1987)
- "The Blind Watchmaker" (1987)
- "Growing Up in the Universe" (1991)
- "Break the Science Barrier" (1996)
- "The Root of All Evil?" (2006)
- "The Enemies of Reason" (2007)
- "The Genius of Charles Darwin" (2008)
- Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life (2012)
- Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008)
- Faith School Menace? (2010)
- Beautiful Minds (2012)
- The Unbelievers (2013)
Richard Dawkins Media
The Great Hall, Oundle School
At the University of Texas at Austin, March 2008
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Lecturing on his book The God Delusion, 24 June 2006
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Wearing a scarlet 'A' lapel pin, at the 34th annual conference of American Atheists (2008)
- Ariane Sherine and Richard Dawkins at the Atheist Bus Campaign launch.jpg
With Ariane Sherine at the Atheist Bus Campaign launch in London, January 2009
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Speaking at Kepler's Books, Menlo Park, California, 29 October 2006
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Discussing free speech and Islam(ism) at the 2017 Conference on Free Expression and Conscience
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The Welsh musician Jayce Lewis at Dawkins' home in 2018 while working on Million (Part 2)
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Receiving the Deschner Prize in Frankfurt, 12 October 2007, from Karlheinz Deschner
Related pages
References
- ↑ Taylor, James E. "The New Atheists". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ↑ "Richard Dawkins". London: Royal Society. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
- ↑ Dawkins, Richard (1986). The Blind Watchmaker. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. p. xvii. ISBN 978-0-393-31570-7.
- ↑ Dawkins, Richard (2013). An Appetite for Wonder. New York, New York: Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0-06-231580-9.
- ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 5.15 5.16 5.17 5.18 5.19 Grafen 2006.
- ↑ Although born in Kenya, Dawkins considers himself English.
- ↑ Ridley, Mark (2007). Richard Dawkins: How a scientist changed the way we think: reflections by scientists, writers, and philosophers. Oxford University Press. p. 228. ISBN 978-0-19-921466-2., Extract of page 228
- ↑ "Emeritus, Honorary and Wykeham Fellows - New College". www.new.ox.ac.uk.
- ↑ "Previous holders of The Simonyi Professorship". The University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 17 August 2012. Retrieved 23 September 2010.
- ↑ "Richard Dawkins on militant atheism". TED Conferences, LLC. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
- ↑ Dawkins, Richard (2006). The God Delusion. Transworld Publishers. ISBN 0-593-05548-9.
- ↑ "The God Delusion – back on the Times extended list at #24". Richard Dawkins at RichardDawkins.net. 27 January 2010. Archived from the original on 17 August 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2010.
- "Richard Dawkins — Science and the New Atheism". Richard Dawkins at Point of Inquiry. 8 December 2007. Retrieved 14 March 2008.