“Sam Harris picks a fight with God” Unfortunate title, but the content of this new interview is a half-hour conversation with Sam speaking at the TED 2010 conference with KPCC’s Patt Morrison.
http://www.scpr.org/programs/patt-morrison/2010/02/12/sam-harris-picks-a-fight-with-god/
Two things that I gleaned from this conversation (other than Sam’s usual reasonableness):
Sam finally does have his PhD and,
Sam’s new book is due out this fall. The Moral Landscape: How Science Will Determine Human Values
Description of the new book (taken from here):
In his forthcoming book, Harris proposes that answers to questions of human value can be visualized on a “moral landscape”—a space of real and potential outcomes whose peaks and valleys correspond to states of greater or lesser well being in conscious creatures like ourselves. Different ways of thinking and behaving—different cultural practices, ethical codes, modes of government, etc.—translate into movements across this landscape. Such changes can be analyzed objectively on many levels—ranging from biochemistry to economics—but they have their crucial realization as states and capacities of the human brain.
