Sam Harris, bestselling author of The End of Faith, is back with a new book that argues science has a universal moral code and there’s no need for religion. In an exclusive essay, Harris lays out his ...

Good science fiction is a worthy genre, and although it's darker and more tension-filled to imagine a dystopia run by berserk robots or malicious aliens, there's occasionally a gentle story, about a ...

To call Sam Harris a divisive figure is to put it mildly. Harris — along with Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens — is considered one of the most influential members of the ...

Sam Harris is one of my favourite religion-bashers. In The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation and his latest book, The Moral Landscape, Harris depicts religion as wrong, both empirically and ...

Sam Harriss first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people - from religious fundamentalists to ...

This is a fun line of thinking! I think many people hold the intuition that their sense of right and wrong–unlike, for instance, their way of dressing–is deeply engrained and not subject to the tides ...

Myrick C. Shinall Jr. ([email protected]) is a surgeon and palliative care physician at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in Nashville, Tennessee, where he also works in the Center for Biomedical ...

Fate's impassive coin toss, evil's relentless pursuit, the unwise bravado of youth, the sad inadequacy of wisdom - novelist Cormac McCarthy invested all his classic themes into No Country for Old Men, ...

Sam Harris thinks we can be moral scientifically. We need, he says, to construct a new discipline: a “science of human flourishing”. By understanding the brain more fully – Harris trained both as a ...

See especially the third one there, where I try to be relatively careful about what I am saying. (Wouldn't impress a philosopher by a long shot, but by scientist/blogger standards I was careful.) ...