Nicholas Everitt

Nicholas Everitt (born 21 October 1943) is an English philosopher and atheist writer who specializes in epistemology and philosophy of religion.

Biography

Everitt obtained his degree in Moral Science from University of Cambridge and a postgraduate degree from University of Oxford. He was Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia and taught briefly at Fairfield University and Ngee Ann Polytechnic. Everitt argues that the divine attributes of God (omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, omnibenevolence) in traditional theism are individually self-contradictory or cannot be co-instantiated. The book contains criticisms of all the standard theistic arguments (cosmological, ontological, moral, teleological). It was positively reviewed in academic journals.

Selected publications

Modern Epistemology: A New Introduction (with Alec Fisher, 1995) The Non-Existence of God (2003) The Argument from Imperfection (2006)