Author: Wayne Alt
Wayne Alt is associate professor of philosophy at the Community College of Baltimore County at Essex in Maryland.
How Not to Determine Human Values
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, by Sam Harris (New York: Free Press, A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2010, ISBN 978-1-4391-7121-9) 279 pp. Cloth, $26.99. In his new book, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, Sam Harris describes what he calls “a science of human flourishing” (7). …