Disagreeable Me

This is my entry to Sam Harris's Moral Landscape Challenge. Needless to say, it didn't win, but I'm reasonably happy with it no...

I have a lot of time for both Sam Harris and Dan Dennett. I find I often disagree with Harris, but his arguments are usually interesting...

Before leaving the subject of The Moral Landscape completely, I want to write a post specifically to defend Harris's idea against one p...

For all the reasons I've outlined, I don't think it's correct to say that Sam Harris has justified his claim that science can i...

To whom do we have a moral duty? Sam Harris identifies "conscious beings" as the beneficiaries of our morality. This is a ver...

In keeping with the theme of attacking the objectivity of Harris's moral axiom, this post will address whether the concept of well-bein...

In my last post , I discussed some potential problems with the axiom chosen by Sam Harris as the basis of his system of morality. I showed ...

Sam Harris claims that a science of morality may be considered objective because if it is founded on a premise that no reasonable person co...

Continuing the discussion of Sam Harris's The Moral Landscape , I have a problem with the notion of claiming to derive an entirely obje...

In The Moral Landscape , Sam Harris argues for the reality of moral truths and maintains that they can in principle be discovered by scienc...

In continuing the discussion of morality, let's have a look at the claim made by many that morality has an objective existence emanatin...

I've been following Sam Harris for a while and have recently read The Moral Landscape in which he attempts to answer this question. ...