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Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions

Mar 23, ’10 10:33 PM

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The Reason Project launches

May 12, ’09 8:12 AM

The Reason Pro­ject, co-founded by Sam Har­ris, launched today:

The Reason Pro­ject is a non­profit found­a­tion devoted to spread­ing sci­entific know­ledge and sec­u­lar val­ues in soci­ety. The found­a­tion draws on the tal­ents of prom­in­ent and cre­at­ive thinkers in a wide range of dis­cip­lines to encour­age crit­ical think­ing and erode the influ­ence of dog­mat­ism, super­sti­tion, and bigotry in our world.

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Can we ever be right about right and wrong?

Oct 26, ’08 1:22 PM

This is Sam Har­ris, author of Let­ter to to a Chris­tian Nation and The End of Faith, speak­ing at Bey­ond Belief.

Har­ris’ thesis is that ques­tions of mor­al­ity are per­fectly within the realm of sci­entific enquiry and, that because human well-being is real­ised at the level of the brain, an emer­ging and matur­ing brain sci­ence will have a lot to say about right and wrong.

While I have an easy time under­stand­ing the idea that mor­al­ity is part of evol­u­tion­ary inher­it­ance I’ve always felt a little uneasy about how one recon­ciles value for diversity with a thesis that seems to sug­gest an homo­gen­isa­tion of cul­tural norms, but Har­ris goes some way to alle­vi­at­ing these con­cerns in this talk.

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