Sam Harris
The End of Philosophy
By DAVID BROOKS
April 6, 2009
...It challenges the new atheists, who see themselves involved in a war of reason against faith and who have an unwarranted faith in the power of pure reason and in the purity of their own reasoning.
The Editor’s Desk
By Jon Meacham
From the magazine issue dated Apr 13, 2009
You are not your brain
By Gordy Slack
Mar. 25, 2009 |
We have become too reductive in understanding ourselves, argues philosopher Alva Noe. Our thoughts and desires are shaped by more than neurons firing inside our heads.
The New Atheism, and Something More
By PETER STEINFELS
Published: February 13, 2009
If the label “new atheists” has been accorded to a fistful of polemicists who set out to counter in-your-face religion with in-your-face atheism, then Ronald Aronson must qualify as something different: a new new atheist perhaps.
Edge Discussion of Jerry Coyne’s “Seeing and Believing”
Jerry Coyne has published another wonderful demolition of religious faith in The New Republic:
Sam Harris has contributed a satirical response to the discussion about it on Edge.org”
Former Archbishop of Canterbury: atheists use 9/11 as excuse to attack all religions
By Martin Beckford, Religious Affairs Correspondent
Atheists have used the terrorist outrages of September 11 as an excuse to attack all religions, according to the former Archbishop of Canterbury.
Last Updated: 3:02PM GMT 12 Jan 2009
The Edge Annual Question — 2009
WHAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING?
“What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?”
