RE: Dennett throws down the gloves and pummels Sam Harris right in the gut
February 4, 2014 at 11:10 pm
I've been annoyed with Harris for awhile now. "The Moral Landscape" has quite a bit of BS in it. Completely fails the fact-value problem, and seems to forget that other types of moral theories aren't consequentialistic, so him trying to reduce them to it is ludicrous.
I find similar problems with his treatment of compatibilism, in that while he seems to grasp some of it, he tries for too big of moves against it with such little, of content, being said. There's a reason compatibilism is the most afhered to position on free-will by philosophers, and it certainly can't be boiled down to simply try to hold on to the idea. Otherwise theism and other sorts of positions would be much more likely to have had more popularity amongst philosophers.
I find similar problems with his treatment of compatibilism, in that while he seems to grasp some of it, he tries for too big of moves against it with such little, of content, being said. There's a reason compatibilism is the most afhered to position on free-will by philosophers, and it certainly can't be boiled down to simply try to hold on to the idea. Otherwise theism and other sorts of positions would be much more likely to have had more popularity amongst philosophers.
