Author: Amir E. Salehi
Amir E. Salehi is associate professor of philosophy at The Community College of Baltimore County, Dundalk Campus, Maryland.
In Defense of Sam Harris’s “Science of Morality”
In this article, I am pursuing several objectives. First, I will address some of the problems with Sam Harris’s thesis concerning a science of morality that was introduced in his book The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (Free Press, 2010). Specifically, I intend to demonstrate that Harris applies a not-so-carefully-developed language that …