Sam Harris: Critical Responses: Critical Responses

Acknowledgments xi
Foreword: Why Sam Harris Matters 
STEPHEN R.C. HICKS xiii
The Sam Harris Phenomenon xvii
I What Human Life Is For 1
1. Another Red Pill
SANDRA WOIEN 3
2.My Life Gives the Moral Landscape Its Relief MARC CHAMPAGNE 17
II Liberal Values 39
3.Spotting Dangerous Ideas DAVID RAMSAY STEELE 41
4.Intellectual Integrity or Social Justice? LUCAS RIJANA 57
5.Is Redistribution the Endgame? ANTONY SAMMEROFF 69
III Science and Ethics 91
6. The Mantle of Neuroscience RAY SCOTT PERCIVAL 93
7.A Miserable Argument MARK WARREN 115
8.Dark Spots in Sam Harris’s Moral Landscape DAVID GORDON 127
9.A Moral Compass that Works ERIK BOORNAZIAN AND JAMES W. DILLER 139
IV The Specter of Artificial Intelligence 151
10.Sam Harris and the Myth of Machine Intelligence JOBST LANDGREBE AND BARRY SMITH 153
11.Are We Too Dumb for Superintelligence? LISA BELLANTONI 163
12.Solutions to the Existential Threat of AI LEONARD KAHN 177
Part V I Feel Free 191
13.Neural Determinism and Neural Roulette JOHN LEMOS 193
14.Let’s Talk about Free Will! MEGAN DRURY 207
Part VI Beyond the Physical Cosmos 221
15.Another Thing in This Universe that Cannot Be an Illusion MAANELI DERAKHSHANI 223
16.Intimations of the Numinous REG NAULTY 235
Part VII No End to Faith 247
17.A Rational Proposal BETHEL MCGREW 249
18.Is Sam Harris Right about the Miracles of Jesus? MICHAEL BARROS AND BETHEL MCGREW 261
19.Scientism as Religion and Religion as Wisdom RON DART 275
About the Authors 287
Index 295

Sandra Woien is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. Her work has appeared in American Journal of Bioethics, BMC Medical Ethics, The Conversation, and Reason Papers. She edited the much-acclaimed volume, Jordan Peterson: Critical Responses (2022).