Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2014-09-02
Books mentioned on #543 - Sam Harris
Sam Harris is a neuroscientist and author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, and The Moral Landscape. His latest book "Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality without Religion" is available now.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Letter to a Christian Nation
Sam Harris's critical examination of religious dogmas and societal attitudes toward belief draws significant attention in podcast conversations.
Discussed“I told you I first found out about you from uh my friend Joe Silva, who's the matchmaker uh for the UFC, who gave me your book. He gave me uh letters to a Christian nation uh many, many years ago.”
Where to get it
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On Having No Head
Discussed“I don't know if you ever heard of this writer Douglas Hardin. He was a um a British architect um who wrote a book called on having no head”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book The Moral Landscape
“Actually, that was the the thesis of my last book or the book before last, the moral landscape where I talk about how we can understand strong claims of right and wrong and good and evil in the context of science.”
Own book The End of Faith
“This is a um this is really in my view a completion of the project I started with the end of faith where you know I I started by just noticing how divisive and unnecessary and and ultimately dangerous our our incompatible religious ideas are”
Own book The Moral Landscape
“And so so the moral landscape was my argument that we can have a strong conception of ethics without believing any [ __ ]”
Own book Free Will
“Uh why was it unpleasant? Is he angry at you? Well what yeah, I mean what happened is I so I wrote this very short book free will uh which uh was actually there was a short section in in my book the moral landscape”
Own book The Moral Landscape
“Uh why was it unpleasant? Is he angry at you? Well what yeah, I mean what happened is I so I wrote this very short book free will uh which uh was actually there was a short section in in my book the moral landscape”