{"id":1470,"date":"2009-02-05T06:28:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T14:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2009-02-05T06:28:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T14:28:31","slug":"andy-rosss-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/andy-rosss-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Ross&#8217;s Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a keen reader of Andy Ross&#8217;s blog. \u00a0 (And he&#8217;s a something reader of my stuff\u00a0\u2014 at any rate, he re-posted, with intelligent comments, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnderbyshire.com\/Opinions\/HumanSciences\/scienceofconsciousness.html\">my ruminations<\/a> on the &#8220;Science of Consciousness&#8221; conference last spring.)  Andy&#8217;s a philosopher\u00a0\u2014 he has four degrees in the subject, three from Oxford\u00a0\u2014 and often writes about religion from a cognitive-science and evolutionary perspective. Andy&#8217;s a fan of some people I&#8217;m a fan of (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnderbyshire.com\/Reviews\/HumanSciences\/strangeloop.html\">Doug Hofstadter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Breaking-Spell-Religion-Natural-Phenomenon\/dp\/0143038338\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1233843687&amp;sr=1-1\">Daniel Dennett<\/a>), but he&#8217;s approximately 100,0000 times smarter and better-read than I am.  I would <em>love<\/em> to get him and our Mr. Hume in a room together.<\/p>\n<p>Now apparently Andy&#8217;s written a book.  At any rate, he&#8217;s linking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andyross.net\/godblogs.pdf\">a substantial manuscript<\/a> with his name on it, title <em>Godblogs: On Religion from Sam Harris to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bede_Griffiths\">Bede Griffiths<\/a><\/em>. Worth a look.<\/p>\n<p>Andy&#8217;s regular blog is  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andyross.net\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a keen reader of Andy Ross&#8217;s blog. \u00a0 (And he&#8217;s a something reader of my stuff\u00a0\u2014 at any rate, he re-posted, with intelligent comments, my ruminations on the &#8220;Science of Consciousness&#8221; conference last spring.) Andy&#8217;s a philosopher\u00a0\u2014 he has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/andy-rosss-book\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}