Sam Harris (1) (1967–)
Autor/a de The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
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Sobre l'autor
Sam Harris received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph. D in neuroscience from UCLA. His works include Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, and Free Will. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. He is the co-founder and CEO of Project Reason, a mostra'n més nonprofit foundation devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society. His title Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Sam Harris
Obres de Sam Harris
Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity (2020) 137 exemplars
An Atheist Manifesto 2 exemplars
Sam Harris on the Reality of Islam 1 exemplars
Obres associades
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (2012) — Col·laborador — 792 exemplars
What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (1914) — Col·laborador — 627 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Harris, Sam
- Nom oficial
- Harris, Samuel Benjamin
- Data de naixement
- 1967-04-09
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Educació
- Stanford University (BA|Filosofie)
University of California, Los Angeles (PhD|Neurowetenschap) - Professions
- Neurowetenschapper
Schrijver
Columnist
Filosoof - Organitzacions
- Project Reason
- Agent
- John Brockman
Membres
Converses
Sam Harris' Lying available for free a Book talk (abril 2013)
Plantinga Reviews Sam Harris's Book a Let's Talk Religion (gener 2013)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 14
- També de
- 2
- Membres
- 13,963
- Popularitat
- #1,648
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 349
- ISBN
- 149
- Llengües
- 17
- Preferit
- 48
I appreciate what Sam does and I respect the political perspective of what he is up to but also fund his point full of holes.
Sam sees no existence of “free will” which I would say is obvious under the assumptions of a perfectly causal universe. But Sam also makes no attempt to look for hypothesis of what would make sense to represent the idea of “free will” because he thinks any other explanation can’t capture the commonsense meaning of the word.
This is dogma of a different kind and poses the same problem with any idea that is hard to capture in language: consciousness, values, emotion, desire
etc... But to Harris, when it serves him, the answer comes from some narrow interpretation of a neuroscience experiment. When it doesn’t then it is not worth discussing because its not commonsense.… (més)