• The Best of Making Sense with Sam Harris

  • Written by: Sam Harris
  • Podcast
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The Best of Making Sense with Sam Harris

Written by: Sam Harris
  • Summary

  • Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and five-time New York Times best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores important and controversial questions about the mind, society, current events, moral philosophy, religion, and rationality—with an overarching focus on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live. Sam is also the creator of the Waking Up app. Combining Sam’s decades of mindfulness practice, profound wisdom from varied philosophical and contemplative traditions, and a commitment to a secular, scientific worldview, Waking Up is a resource for anyone interested in living a more examined, fulfilling life—and a new operating system for the mind. Waking Up offers free subscriptions to anyone who can’t afford one, and donates a minimum of 10% of profits to the most effective charities around the world. To learn more, please go to WakingUp.com. Sam Harris received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.
    2022
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Episodes
  • #175 — Leaving the Faith
    Nov 27 2023

    Sam Harris speaks with Yasmine Mohammed about her book Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam. They discuss her family background and indoctrination into conservative Islam, the double standard that Western liberals use when thinking about women in the Muslim community, the state of feminism in general, honor violence, the validity of criticizing other cultures, and many other topics.

    Yasmine Mohammed is a human rights activist and writer. She advocates for the rights of women living within Islamic majority countries, as well as those who struggle under religious fundamentalism. She is the founder of Free Hearts Free Minds, an organization that provides psychological support for ex-Muslims living within Muslim majority countries. 

    Website: YasmineMohammed.com

    Twitter: @YasMohammedxx

    Episodes that have been re-released as part of the Best of Making Sense series may have been edited for relevance since their original airing.

     

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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • #151 — Will We Destroy the Future?
    Nov 20 2023

    Sam Harris speaks with Nick Bostrom about the problem of existential risk. They discuss public goods, moral illusions, the asymmetry between happiness and suffering, utilitarianism, “the vulnerable world hypothesis,” the history of nuclear deterrence, the possible need for “turnkey totalitarianism,” whether we’re living in a computer simulation, the Doomsday Argument, the implications of extraterrestrial life, and other topics.

    Nick Bostrom is a Swedish-born philosopher with a background in theoretical physics, computational neuroscience, logic, and artificial intelligence. He is a Professor at Oxford University, where he leads the Future of Humanity Institute as its founding director. He is the author of some 200 publications, including Anthropic Bias, Global Catastrophic Risks, Human Enhancement, and Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, a New York Times bestseller.

    Episodes that have been re-released as part of the Best of Making Sense series may have been edited for relevance since their original airing.

     

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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • #207 — Can We Pull Back From The Brink?
    Nov 13 2023

    Sam discusses the 2020 social protests and civil unrest, in light of what we know about racism and police violence in America.

     

    Episodes that have been re-released as part of the Best of Making Sense series may have been edited for relevance since their original airing.

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    1 hr and 53 mins

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