Catholic university and outspoken critic of the environmentalist movement, Charles T. Rubin, likened Dennett in The New Atlantis to "a tone-deaf music scholar", criticized his "unwillingness to admit the limits of scientific rationality" and accused him of "deploying the same old Enlightenment tropes that didn't work all that well the first time around". Philosophical reception Thomas Nagel said that Dennett's book was 'beneath him' and Edward Feser has extensively critiqued his book, criticising his interpretation of theistic arguments, whilst maintaining praise for his passages on cognitive neuroscience. Roger Scruton both praised and criticised Dennett's book in his book On Human Nature, endorsing his intellectual bravery and imaginative writing, yet criticising his reliance on the meme theory, and remaining sceptical of his view that all areas of human consciousness can be accessible through the neo-Darwinian human model alone. Translations Breaking the Spell has been translated into several other languages, including: See also Religious studies Evolutionary psychology of religion References External links Reviews David B. Hart, "Daniel Dennett Hunts the Snark" in First Things. George Johnson, "Getting a Rational Grip on Religion" in Scientific American. Leon Wieseltier, "The God Genome" in The New York Times. Adam Kirsch, "If Men Are From Mars, What's God" in The New York Sun. James Brookfield, "Dennett’s dangerous idea", World Socialist Website. Armin W. Geertz, "How Not to Do the Cognitive Science of Religion Today" (University of Aarhus seminar paper). Charles T. Rubin, "The God Meme" in The New Atlantis. 2006 non-fiction books Analytic philosophy literature Books by Daniel Dennett Books critical of religion Cognitive science literature English-language books New Atheism