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Its a toss between Meanwhile, Sam Harris, in his tautly reasoned book “The Moral Landscape,” made a strong case that there are right and wrong answers to moral questions and that science has something important to say about which are which. and Somewhat less convincing are Shermer’s sections on the role of science as a moral force for good, which mostly boil down to anecdotes in which science has helped supplant superstition since the Enlightenment. It is true, of course, that (as far as I know) we’re no longer burning “witches” at the stake for phenomena we don’t understand. But I hoped Shermer would grapple more with the vexing ways in which science has contributed — and arguably continues to contribute — to moral atrocities, from the role of Nazi scientists to the development of biological weaponry.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 07:36:15 +0000

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