I’m getting caught up on reading over winter break, and among other things just finished Sam Harris’ The Moral Landscape. Initially, I was going to say that while I think there are problems with Harris’ view, I didn’t think any of the commentary I’d read had quite gotten right what those problems are. However, via [...]
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What’s Wrong with Sam Harris’ The Moral Landscape (review)
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 11, 2011
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Moderate Islam
Posted by Chris Hallquist on August 31, 2010
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Sam Harris’ The End of Faith was the first and, to my mind, most important of the “New Atheist” books. Important, because after the September 11th attacks, the crazy in the liberal half of American thinking about religion came out and it seemed like everyone was saying that the attacks had nothing to do with [...]
Breathtaking historical ignorance watch
Posted by Chris Hallquist on October 25, 2009
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From a recent Newsweek column, via Jerry Coyne: But this version of the conversation [the version represented by Harris, Dawkins, and Hitchens--ed.] has gone on too long. We have allowed three people to frame it; its terms—submitting God to rational proofs and watching God fail—are theirs. But this approach to discussing religion far pre-dates Harris. [...]