Ian Hutchinson

The book Monopolizing Knowledge critiques the worldview it calls 'scientism': “the belief that science, modeled on the natural sciences, is the only source of real knowledge.”

Hutchinson's paper addresses the question of how to engage arguments put forward by the New Atheists by offering a critique of scientism, the assumption that scientific knowledge is all the real knowledge there is.

Dr. Ian Hutchinson claims that the arguments made by New Atheists are not new at all, but rather extensions of intellectual threads which have existed since the late 19th century.