By: Jason|20 July, 2011|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Adam Omelianchuk . metaethics . moral epistemology . Sam Harris . science
Adam Omelianchuk has a nice review of Sam Harris’ latest book, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Moral Values.
Read more »By: Bnonn|20 April, 2011|Categories: Ethics|Tags: evolution . moral ontology . moral realism . morality . new atheism . Sam Harris . science . william lane craig
Bnonn takes New Zealand’s Village Atheist, Ken Perrott, to task for ineptly handling the foundations of human morality.
Read more »By: Jason|14 April, 2011|Categories: Debates|Tags: Divine Command Theory . metaethics . morality . Sam Harris . william lane craig
There has been some good analysis of the recent debate between William Lane Craig and Sam Harris and I thought it might be useful to collect some of that commentary here into one post.
Read more »By: Bnonn|09 April, 2011|Categories: Humour|Tags: Debunking Christianity . John Loftus . la-la land . new atheism . Sam Harris . william lane craig
Some amused interaction with John Loftus’ contention that “Sam’s arguments were clearly better” in the recent Craig-Harris debate on whether God is the foundation for moral goodness.
Read more »By: Bnonn|09 April, 2011|Categories: Debates|Tags: Craig-Harris debate . moral argument . moral epistemology . moral ontology . moral theory . Sam Harris . william lane craig
A review of the Craig-Harris debate on whether God is the foundation of goodness, including both summaries for the lazy, and detailed commentary for the curious.
Read more »By: Jason|08 April, 2011|Categories: Debates|Tags: Divine Command Theory . metaethics . morality . Sam Harris . william lane craig
Just a reminder that today’s debate between William Lane Craig and Sam Harris at the University of Notre Dame will be streamed live at 7pm local time (11am for those of us in New Zealand). You will be able to watch the feed here. UPDATE: Brian Auten at Apologetics315 has posted the audio from the debate. UPDATE: The video of…
Read more »By: Jason|25 March, 2011|Categories: Events|Tags: debate . Lawrence Krauss . Sam Harris . william lane craig
Christian philosopher William Lane Craig will be participating in two big debates at the end of March and the beginning of April, and both will be streamed live over the web. For the first debate (March 30), Craig will be defending the evidence for God against Lawrence Krauss, a distinguished professor of physics and director of the Origins Initiative at…
Read more »By: Jason|02 September, 2010|Categories: Quotes|Tags: Glenn Peoples . morality . objective morality . Sam Harris . science
Sam Harris defends the importance of objective moral truth at his lecture at the Edge Conference.
Read more »By: Jason|16 August, 2010|Categories: Events|Tags: auckland . auckland university . metaethics . moral facts . moral objectivism . neuroscience . new atheism . public events . relativism . Sam Harris
Glenn Peoples will be speaking at Auckland Uni this September.
Read more »By: Jason|08 November, 2009|Categories: Philosophy of Religion|Tags: atheism . christopher hitchens . Daniel Dennett . God . Michael Ruse . richard dawkins . Sam Harris
As early as Epicurus, there have been attempts to debunk the supernatural, but it was not until the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with Hume, Feuerbach, Russell, Sartre and others, that more intellectually sophisticated arguments for atheism entered the marketplace of ideas. Since the early twenty-first century, however, a new pattern of atheism has emerged. Departing from their skeptical forebears, the…
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