Foundations of human morality.
How did he know it was the right thing to do? Sam Harris caused a bit of a stir with his recent book ’The Moral Landscape.’ While it upset religious apologists (gods didn’t come into his argument) it...
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Interesting! Is there a second wave of interest in Sam Harris’s ideas on human morality? Sam Harris Sure, many religious apologists really didn’t want to challenge these ideas until WL Craig had said...
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I think we may be seeing the beginning of a new wave of popular science books on morality. Sam Harris‘s The Moral Landscape got wide coverage and sparked several high-profile debates on the subject...
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I want to spend a few posts answering some of the questions commenters have raised on my science of morality articles here and at the SciBlogs syndicated version (Open Parachute@ SciBlogs). See, for...
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In our discussion of the science of morality commenters often assert that science may be able to describe why and how we are moral but it cannot make moral decisions for us. Or tell us what is right...
View ArticlePat Churchland on the science of morality
A few months ago there was a flurry of attention around Sam Harris’s book The Moral Landscape and lectures he gave around the time of its publication. A lot of it critical – but not all. I thought the...
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