When it came out, it was a lot of people's first exposure to a defense of atheism. It was impressive compared to....nothing.
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Yeah, but the last chapters, with the Islamophobia...Oy, even break then, only three years after 9/11, I cringed.
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His book "The Moral Landscape" is a giant exercise in to try to break the is/ought fallacy, and fails miserably. He essentially seems to argue for science-based utilitarianism, without having done sufficient background research on the subject.
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I don't understand what Harris is actually qualified to talk about. He has a background in philosophy and neuroscience, but in that book he doesn't get the philosophy, and the last time I heard him talk about neuro, he was presenting brain evolution that was dated in the 70's.
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I don’t think there’s been a real public intellectual since Gore Vidal died. We have had a series of pop intellectuals, who inevitably reveal a shallowness of intellect, bigotry, misogyny etc., with any duration in the public eye. Most telling, they never say, “I don’t know.”
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He can run circles around Christian apologists, but that's kind of a low bar.
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I tried reading the Moral Landscape and gave up halfway. So many words to dress up utilitarianism, and give scientists a lot of unnecessary work determining the empirical "morality" of issues. It gave me a headache.
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I used to be a fan. He is really good at disguising himself as an intellectual. Then he tried to debate Chomsky. I've never looked at him the same since.
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W/respect, I think there's a baby/bathwater dismissal here. In gen SH is provicative & prepared, vs vacuous. I def-see the point(s) re: his defensiveness & inability 2 let go, but I think that's due 2 a genuine belief that he's misunderstood. Athiests face a headwind in
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