http://www.centerforinquiry.net/nyc/events/voices_of_reason_—_sam_harris_the_moral_landscape/

Starts
Thursday, October 7th 2010 at 6:30 pm
Ends
Thursday, October 7th 2010 at 9:00 pm
Location
New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street (at Central Park West)

Questions of good and evil, right and wrong, are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But in his new book The Moral Landscape , Sam Harris argues that science can—and should—be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what constitutes a good life.

It’s not on their calendar: http://www.nysec.org/calendar-date_nysec/2010-10

I’m looking forward to this book.

Yes, he is speaking for us. More info to come soon.

This went great. Video should be up Monday.

Cannot wait to get Sam’s new book.  He writes with compassion and intelligence.  He should start debating people like Chris Hitchens and John Schook do.  Let’s get the debates started.  The new wars will be wars of the mind.

questionsaboutfaith - 20 October 2010 06:07 AM

Cannot wait to get Sam’s new book.  He writes with compassion and intelligence.  He should start debating people like Chris Hitchens and John Schook do.  Let’s get the debates started.  The new wars will be wars of the mind.

The problem is that Harris doesn’t seem to be very good at debating. It may no be that he doesn’t know how to debate, but that his ideas just sound better when they go unchallenged. You could see that in his recent debate with Wright, or during the discussion he had with Atran at the first Beyond Belief, or in this year’s EDGE conference on morality.

Video is up at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTKf5cCm-9g