Sam Harris

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Den amerikanske filosofen och neurologen Sam Harris har med sin podd Making Sense ritat om spelplanen för det intellektuella samtalet. En global miljonpublik deltar nu i djuplodande filosofiska samtal som rör sig mellan det vardagligt konkreta och det delikat abstrakta.Denna volym samlar några av poddens mest tankeväckande diskussioner i ämnen som kretsar kring och bortom det mänskliga tänkandet och våra möjligheter att föreställa oss andra intelligenser. I tretton upplysande, utmanande och underhållande samtal med snillen som Daniel Kahneman, Timothy Snyder, Anil Seth, Nick Bostrom och Max Tegmark närmar sig Sam Harris spörsmål som garanterat kommer att få dig att tänka klarare och vidare.

"Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations." Sam HarrisNeuroscientist, philosopher, podcaster and bestselling author Sam Harris, has been exploring some of the greatest questions concerning the human mind, society, and the events that shape our world.Harris's search for deeper understanding of how we think has led him to engage and exchange with some of our most brilliant and controversial contemporary minds - Daniel Kahneman, Robert Sapolsky, Anil Seth and Max Tegmark - in order to unpack and clarify ideas of consciousness, free will, extremism, and ethical living.For Harris, honest conversation, no matter how difficult or contentious, represents the only path to moral and intellectual progress.Featuring eleven conversations from the hit podcast, these electric exchanges fuse wisdom with rigorous interrogation to shine a light on what it means to make sense of our world today.'I don't have many can't miss podcasts, but Making Sense is right at the top of that short list.' - Stephen Fry'Sam Harris is the most intellectually courageous man I know.' - Richard Dawkins

A New York Times New and Noteworthy BookFrom the bestselling author of Waking Up and The End of Faith, an adaptation of his wildly popular, often controversial podcast"Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations." --Sam HarrisSam Harris--neuroscientist, philosopher, and bestselling author--has been exploring some of the most important questions about the human mind, society, and current events on his podcast, Making Sense. With over one million downloads per episode, these discussions have clearly hit a nerve, frequently walking a tightrope where either host or guest--and sometimes both--lose their footing, but always in search of a greater understanding of the world in which we live. For Harris, honest conversation, no matter how difficult or controversial, represents the only path to moral and intellectual progress.This book includes a dozen of the best conversations from Making Sense, including talks with Daniel Kahneman, Timothy Snyder, Nick Bostrom, and Glenn Loury, on topics that range from the nature of consciousness and free will, to politics and extremism, to living ethically. Together they shine a light on what it means to "make sense" in the modern world.

“A civil but honest dialogue…As illuminating as it is fascinating.”—Ayaan Hirsi AliIs Islam a religion of peace or war? Is it amenable to reform? Why do so many Muslims seem to be drawn to extremism? And what do words like jihadism and fundamentalism really mean? In a world riven by misunderstanding and violence, Sam Harris—a famous atheist—and Maajid Nawaz—a former radical—demonstrate how two people with very different religious views can find common ground and invite you to join in an urgently needed conversation.“How refreshing to read an honest yet affectionate exchange between the Islamist-turned-liberal-Muslim Maajid Nawaz and the neuroscientist who advocates mindful atheism, Sam Harris…Their back-and-forth clarifies multiple confusions that plague the public conversation about Islam.”—Irshad Manji, New York Times Book Review“It is sadly uncommon, in any era, to find dialogue based on facts and reason—but even more rarely are Muslim and non-Muslim intellectuals able to maintain critical distance on broad questions about Islam. Which makes Islam and the Future of Tolerance something of a unicorn…Most conversations about religion are marked by the inability of either side to listen, but here, at last, is a proper debate.”—New Statesman

In 2007, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett filmed a landmark discussion about modern atheism. The video went viral. Now in print for the first time, the transcript of their conversation is illuminated by new essays from three of the original participants and an introduction by Stephen Fry.At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as the four horsemen, the heralds of religions unravelingChristopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennettsat down together over cocktails. What followed was a rigorous, pathbreaking, and enthralling exchange, which has been viewed millions of times since it aired. This is intellectual inquiry at its best: exhilarating, funny, and unpredictable, sincere and probing, reminding us just how varied and colorful the threads of modern atheism are.Here is the transcript of that conversation, in print for the first time, augmented by material from the living participants: Dawkins, Harris, and Dennett. These new essays, introduced by a sparkling foreword from Stephen Fry, mark the evolution of their thinking and highlight particularly resonant aspects of this epic exchange. Each of these men contends with the most fundamental questions of human existence as they challenge one another to articulate their own stance on god and religion, cultural criticism, spirituality, debate with people of faith, and work to articulate the path to a truly ethical life.

_________________Includes a foreword by STEPHEN FRY'A classic for our time...And all time.' - Michael Shermer'The words of Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris and Dennett are needed more than ever.

Mitä uskonnoton henkisyys tarkoittaa? Mitä hyötyä meditoinnista on? Voiko ihmisen tietoisuus jakautua? Mihin gurujen vetovoima perustuu? Aukeavatko tajunnan ovet taikasienillä?Uskontokriitikkona tunnettu Sam Harris tarttuu kirjassa yllättävään aiheeseen: henkisyyteen. Hänelle henkisyydessä ei ole kyse uskonnollisuudesta, vaan ihmismielen mahdollisuuksista. Myös uskontoja vieroksuva voi kokea henkisiä kokemuksia - ne ovat jopa välttämättömiä, jos haluaa todella ymmärtää omaa mieltään. Ihmisen tietoisuuden mahdollisuudet ovat paljon laajemmat kuin arkikokemuksen perusteella voi päätellä, mutta niiden toteuttaminen vaatii harjoittelua: meditointia, tietoista läsnäoloa, tarkkaavaisuutta.Harris etsii kirjassaan rationaalista tapaa lähestyä henkisyyttä ja ruotii poleemiseen tyyliinsä perinteisten uskontojen ja uudempien kulttien uskomuksia ja filosofisia käsityksiä tietoisuudesta. Siinä sivussa hän valistaa myös henkisyyden etsijöitä vaanivista vaaroista. Tuloksena on yhdistelmä omaelämäkertaa ja henkisten kokemusten rationaalista pohdintaa.Sam Harris on yhdysvaltalainen kirjailija, filosofi ja neurotutkija, joka on harjoittanut meditointia kymmenien vuosien ajan.

Tässä lyhyesssä kirjassa Sam Harris ja Maajid Nawaz kutsuvat sinut mukaan äärimmäisen ajankohtaiseen keskusteluun: Onko islam rauhan vai sodan uskonto? Voiko sitä uudistaa? Miksi niin monet muslimit tuntevat vetoa ääriliikkeisiin? Mitä sellaiset sanat kuin islamismi, jihadismi ja fundamentalismi tarkoittavat nykypäivän maailmassa?Paitsi, että tunnettu ateisti ja entinen muslimiradikaali ehtivät dialogin aikana analysoida asioita hämmästyttävän laajasti ja syvällisesti, erityisen merkille pantavaa on se, että keskustelu etenee maltillisesti ja kohteliaasti. Harris ja Nawaz ovat kyenneet saamaan aikaan jotakin aidosti uutta; he ottavat käsiteltäväkseen aiheen, joka on yksi aikamme polarisoituneimmista - ja ryhtyvät toimeen pelottomasti ja kokonaisvaltaisesti - ja saavuttavat edistystä.Islam ja suvaitsevaisuuden tulevaisuus on julkaistu nimenomaan siksi, että kirja kävisi esimerkistä ja toimisi innoituksena laajemmalle keskustelulle. Maailmassa, jota repivät väärinkäsitykset ja väkivalta, Harris ja Nawaz osoittavat, kuinka kaksi ihmistä, joiden näkemykset ovat hyvin erilaiset, voivat saavuttaa yhteisen maaperän.

Ett ständigt undersökande av det mänskliga medvetandets gränser har lett Sam Harris fram till en grundläggande fråga: Är andliga upplevelser något som uteslutande hör religionen till? Hans svar är ett tydligt nej. Ur detta perspektiv studerar Harris andlighet som fenomen, medvetandets mysterium och det mänskliga jaget. Meditationen är en viktig pusselbit i hans sökande, droger en annan.Här guidar Harris läsaren till nya insikter och upplevelser i vårt allra innersta.

Written by a neuroscientist, and a "new atheist", this book is suitable for the increasingly large numbers of people who follow no religion, but who suspect that Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Rumi, and the other saints and sages of history could not have all been epileptics, schizophrenics, or frauds.

For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris's latest New York Times bestseller is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology. From Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of numerous New York Times bestselling books, Waking Up is for the twenty percent of Americans who follow no religion but who suspect that important truths can be found in the experiences of such figures as Jesus, the Buddha, Lao Tzu, Rumi, and the other saints and sages of history. Throughout this book, Harris argues that there is more to understanding reality than science and secular culture generally allow, and that how we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the quality of our lives. Waking Up is part memoir and part exploration of the scientific underpinnings of spirituality. No other book marries contemplative wisdom and modern science in this way, and no author other than Sam Harris--a scientist, philosopher, and famous skeptic--could write it.

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As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life. Most forms of private vice and public evil are kindled and sustained by lies. Acts of adultery and other personal betrayals, financial fraud, government corruption--even murder and genocide--generally require an additional moral defect: a willingness to lie. In Lying, best-selling author and neuroscientist Sam Harris argues that we can radically simplify our lives and improve society by merely telling the truth in situations where others often lie. He focuses on "white" lies--those lies we tell for the purpose of sparing people discomfort--for these are the lies that most often tempt us. And they tend to be the only lies that good people tell while imagining that they are being good in the process.

The physiologist Benjamin Libet famously demonstrated that activity in the brain's motor regions can be detected some 300 milliseconds before a person feels that he has decided to move. Another lab recently used fMRI data to show that some "conscious" decisions can be predicted up to 10 seconds before they enter awareness (long before the preparatory motor activity detected by Libet). Clearly, findings of this kind are difficult to reconcile with the sense that one is the conscious source of one's actions. The question of free will is no mere curio of philosophy seminars. A belief in free will underwrites both the religious notion of "sin" and our enduring commitment to retributive justice. The Supreme Court has called free will a "universal and persistent" foundation for our system of law. Any scientific developments that threatened our notion of free will would seem to put the ethics of punishing people for their bad behaviour in question.In Free Will Harris debates these ideas and asks whether or not, given what brain science is telling us, we actually have free will?

Indeed, our failure to address questions of meaning and morality through science has now become the primary justification for religious faith. In this highly controversial book, Sam Harris seeks to link morality to the rest of human knowledge.

"Ensimmäisen kirjani Uskon loppu ilmestymisen jälkeen tuhannet ovat kirjoittaneet minulle kertoakseen, että teen väärin, kun en usko Jumalaan. Vihamielisimmät viestit ovat kristityiltä. Tämä on ironista, koska kristityt yleensä kuvittelevat, että uskonnottomuus luopuu rakkauden ja anteeksiannon hyviestä tehokkaimmin kuin heidän oma uskontonsa. Totuus on, että monet jotka ovat väittäneet olevansa Kristuksen rakkauden muuttamia, suhtautuvatkin kritiikkiin syvällisen suvaitsemattomasti, jopa raivoisasti. Vaikka tämän voi ehkä selittää ihmisluonnolla, on selvää, että tällainen viha perustuu melkoisesti Raamattuun. Miten tiedän sen? Häiriintyneimmät kirjoittajat viittaavat aina tarkasti Raamattuun."Näin alkaa Kirje kristitylle kansalle...

New York Times bestselling author Sam Harris's 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 non-believing scientists--agree on one point: science has nothing to say on the subject of human values. Indeed, our failure to address questions of meaning and morality through science has now become the primary justification for religious faith. In this highly controversial book, Sam Harris seeks to link morality to the rest of human knowledge. Defining morality in terms of human and animal well-being, Harris argues that science can do more than tell how we are; it can, in principle, tell us how we ought to be. In his view, moral relativism is simply false--and comes at an increasing cost to humanity. And the intrusions of religion into the sphere of human values can be finally repelled: for just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim algebra, there can be no Christian or Muslim morality. Using his expertise in philosophy and neuroscience, along with his experience on the front lines of our "culture wars," Harris delivers a game-changing book about the future of science and about the real basis of human cooperation.