Saturday, December 25, 2010

Sam Harris: Can Science Determine Human Values?

In this highly anticipated, explosive new book, the author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation calls for an end to religion's monopoly on morality and human values. In The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, Sam Harris tears down the wall between scientific facts and human values to dismantle the most common justification for religious faith -- that a moral system cannot be based on science.

Berkeley Arts and Letters


Location: First Congregational Church of Berkeley (2345 Channing Way at Dana, Berkeley) Berkeley, CA.
Event Date: 11.10.10

Sam Harris bio:
Sam Harris is an American non-fiction author, and CEO of Project Reason. He received a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA, and is a graduate in philosophy from Stanford University. He has studied both Eastern and Western religious traditions, along with a variety of contemplative disciplines, for twenty years. He is a proponent of scientific skepticism and is the author of
The End of Faith (2004), which won the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award,
Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), a rejoinder to criticism of his first book, and
The Moral Landscape (2010).

1 comment:

Ceska said...

I concur with one criticism made of Harris, which is that he should concede he needs more than science to build his foundation. It's that I think advising Harris to do that goes dead counter to his obvious, stated aims. The same goes for making the subjective fundamental - I'd cheer Harris if he did that, but I'd also be amused because I'd bet my car it would yield a very amusing, public 'atheist excommunication'

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