- Freewill vs Determinism
Sam Harris, Free Will (2012), makes the case concisely from the first-person perspective.
- Morality
Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape (2010), with which I agree on the role of well-being but disagree on the claim that this makes morality objective
- Buddhism
Sam Harris, Waking Up (2014), chapter 1, on what to keep
- Meditation and Mindfulness
What it actually does. Sitting still and attending to the breath, or to whatever arises, makes one thing obvious very quickly: thoughts appear without being summoned, and the sense of a thinker standing behind them is itself just another t…
- Lying
Sam Harris (2011; expanded 2013)
- The Moral Landscape
Sam Harris (2010)
- The Portable Atheist
Subtitled Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever, this is Hitchens' anthology of unbelief: Lucretius, Omar Khayyam, Hobbes, Spinoza, Hume, Shelley, Mill, Marx, George Eliot, Darwin, Twain, Freud, Bertrand Russell, Einstein, Orwell, Carl Sa…
- Compatibilism
The position has a long history (Hobbes, David Hume, Mill) and its best-known modern defender is Daniel C. Dennett (Elbow Room, 1984; Freedom Evolves, 2003). Its opponents are hard determinists, who hold that determinism is true and free w…
- Is–ought problem
The gap is not a problem for morality; it is a description of how morality works. It does mean that no amount of science will tell you what to value, which is why I disagree with Sam Harris's claim in The Moral Landscape that science can d…
- Utilitarianism
Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape (2010)
- People who be and be not based
Sam Harris
- The God Debate II - Harris vs. Craig
Sam Harris vs William Lane Craig
- Jordan Bernt Peterson
January 21, 2017 What is True? - A Conversation with Jordan B. Peterson Sam Harris interviews Peterson and it falls apart almost immediately when Peterson wants to employ a post-modern definition of truth. https://www.samharris.org/podcast…
- Maajid Nawaz
Maajid Nawaz (born 1977), British former Islamist who co-founded the counter-extremism think tank Quilliam and co-wrote Islam and the Future of Tolerance with Sam Harris. Since 2020 he has drifted into COVID-19 and "great reset" conspiracy…
- Sam Harris (YouTube)
Sam Harris
