Extending the Hermeneutics of Suspicion Beyond Irreligiosity

The More Irreligion in Bioethics the Better: Reply to Open Peer Commentaries on “In Defense of Irreligious Bioethics”

“…Chris Durante (2012) objects to my advocacy on behalf of irreligion on the grounds that it is divisive; he says "it heightens the potential for processes of mutual deliberation and understanding to be transformed into mere instances of unproductive argument and premature judgments of another's epistemic content [whatever that is]." What's the alternative here?…”

“…Several commentators judged that I was manhandling religion by singling it out as the object of a principled skepticism and hostility (Durante, 2012;Jones and Whittaker, 2012). Nothing in my analysis, however, that forbids the extension of skepticism as an epistemological principle to any and all fields.…”