Sam Harris (1) (1967–)
Autore di La fine della fede: religione, terrore e il futuro della ragione
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Sull'Autore
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 altro 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 meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Sam Harris
Opere di Sam Harris
An Atheist Manifesto 2 copie
Opere correlate
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (2012) — Collaboratore — 792 copie
What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (1914) — Collaboratore — 627 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Harris, Sam
- Nome legale
- Harris, Samuel Benjamin
- Data di nascita
- 1967-04-09
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Istruzione
- Stanford University (BA|Filosofie)
University of California, Los Angeles (PhD|Neurowetenschap) - Attività lavorative
- Neurowetenschapper
Schrijver
Columnist
Filosoof - Organizzazioni
- Project Reason
- Agente
- John Brockman
Utenti
Discussioni
Sam Harris' Lying available for free in Book talk (Aprile 2013)
Plantinga Reviews Sam Harris's Book in Let's Talk Religion (Gennaio 2013)
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 14
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 13,963
- Popolarità
- #1,648
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 349
- ISBN
- 149
- Lingue
- 17
- Preferito da
- 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.… (altro)