Paul Kurtz
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![Kurtz addresses the Banquet at the 1983 CSICOP Conference in Buffalo, NY](/Images/godic/202501/12/KurtzBanquet3847.jpg")
![Ray Hyman, Paul Kurtz, James Randi, and Ken Frazier at TAM8, July 2010, Las Vegas, after their session on the history of the modern skeptical movement](/Images/godic/202501/12/Ken-RayPaulRandiKen_photo_at_TAM83847.jpg")
![The office of Paul Kurtz at Center for Inquiry Transnational, Amherst, NY](/Images/godic/202501/12/Paul_Kurtz's_office_at_CFI_Transnational3847.jpg")
Paul Kurtz (/kɜːrts/; December 21, 1925 – October 20, 2012) was a prominent American skeptic and secular humanist. He has been called "the father of secular humanism". He was Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, having previously also taught at Vassar, Trinity, and Union colleges, and the New School for Social Research.