{"id":5,"date":"2013-01-01T00:03:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T00:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2014-12-29T21:51:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T10:51:17","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russell\u00a0Blackford is an Australian writer and editor, philosopher and literary critic, based in Newcastle, NSW. He is co-editor (with Udo Schuklenk) of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/50-Voices-Disbelief-Why-Atheists\/dp\/1405190469\/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1357038037&amp;sr=1-3&amp;keywords=russell+blackford\"><em>50 Voices of Disbelief: <\/em><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/50-Voices-Disbelief-Why-Atheists\/dp\/1405190469\/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1357038037&amp;sr=1-3&amp;keywords=russell+blackford\">Why We Are Atheists <\/a>(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) and author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Freedom-Religion-Secular-Blackwell-Philosophy\/dp\/0470674032\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1357038037&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=russell+blackford\"><em>Freedom of\u00a0Religion and the Secular State<\/em> <\/a>(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).\u00a0 His most recent books are\u00a0<em>50 Great Myths About Atheism<\/em> (co-authored with Udo Schuklenk;\u00a0published\u00a0by Wiley-Blackwell in October 2013),\u00a0<em>Humanity Enhanced: Genetic Choice and the Challenge for Liberal Democracies<\/em> (published\u00a0by MIT Press\u00a0in January 2014), and <em>Intelligence Unbound: The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds<\/em> (co-edited with Damien Broderick; published\u00a0by Wiley-Blackwell, also in 2014).<\/p>\n<p>Most of his earlier\u00a0books can be found via <a href=\"http:\/\/randjblackford.customer.netspace.net.au\/russellindex.htm\">his website <\/a>or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Russell-Blackford\/e\/B001HPG31C\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1\">his Amazon author site<\/a>. They include a tie-in trilogy for the TERMINATOR franchise, collectively entitled <em>Terminator 2: The New John Connor Chronicles<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He is editor-in-chief of <em>The Journal of Evolution and Technology<\/em>, a former\u00a0president\/chair of the\u00a0board\u00a0of the Hunter Writers Centre (2012-2013), and a Conjoint Lecturer at the University of Newcastle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell\u00a0Blackford is an Australian writer and editor, philosopher and literary critic, based in Newcastle, NSW. He is co-editor (with Udo Schuklenk) of\u00a050 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) and author of Freedom of\u00a0Religion and the Secular State (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).\u00a0 His most recent books are\u00a050 Great Myths About Atheism (co-authored with Udo Schuklenk;\u00a0published\u00a0by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}