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Paul Kurtz (born February 12, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey) is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo ( SUNY), but is best known for his prominent role in the American skeptical community. In particular, Kurtz is founder and chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP), the Council for Secular Humanism, the Center for Inquiry and Prometheus Books , and editor-in-chief of Free Inquiry Magazine , the official organ of the Council for Secular Humanism. He is a former Co-President of the International Humanist and Ethical Union ( IHEU ). BA, New York University; MA and PhD, Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Humanist Laureate and President of the International Academy of Humanism . A former member of the American Humanist Association, he contributed to the writing of Humanist Manifesto II. There is an asteroid named in his honor called (6629) Kurtz.
Kurtz was left-wing in his youth, but says that serving in the US Army in WWII taught him the dangers of ideology. He saw the BuchenwaldElie Wiesel is second row, seventh from left). Buchenwald was a Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg Hill near Weimar, Thuringia, Germany, in July 1937. The name "Buchenwald" means " beech forest" in German, such a forest surrounding the area and DachauDachau is a city in Southern Germany, in the federal state of Bavaria. Just 20 km away from Munich, it has become a popular housing area for people working in Munich, and now has roughly 40,000 inhabitants. Dachau was founded in the 8th century, and was t concentration camps
after they were liberated, and became disillusioned
with CommunismThis article is about communism as a form of society, as an ideology advocating that form of society, and as a popular movement. For issues regarding the organization of the communist movement, see the Communist party article. For issues regarding one-par when he encountered Russian slave laborers
who had been taken to GermanyThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east by force and refused to
return to the Soviet UnionThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR ( Russian: ; tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (SSSR) also called the Soviet Union ( ; tr. Sovetsky Soyuz , was a state in much of the northern region of Eurasia that existed from 1922 until 1 at the end of the war.
Paul Kurtz has published over 650 articles or reviews and authored or edited over 40 books.
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