Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity pdf

山姆·哈里斯（生于 1967 年）是美国非小说类作家、哲学家和神经科学家。他是《信仰的终结：宗教、恐怖和理性的未来》（2004 年）的作者，该书获得了 2005 年笔会/玛莎阿尔布兰德奖，以及《致基督教国家的信》（2006 年），这是对他第一本书的批评的反驳吸引了。他的新书《道德景观》探讨了科学如何决定人类价值观。
哈里斯因对教条式宗教信仰的攻击而受到强烈批评后，对透露他的个人生活和历史细节持谨慎态度。他说他是由一位犹太母亲和一位贵格会父亲抚养长大的，他告诉《新闻周刊》，作为一个孩子，他“拒绝接受成年礼”。他在斯坦福大学主修英语，但在 MDMA 改变人生的经历后辍学。在此期间，他学习佛教和冥想，并声称已经阅读了数百本有关宗教的书籍。哈里斯在 2009 年 8 月 21 日与比尔·马赫（Bill Maher）一起出现在 Real Time 节目中时表示，他在一个世俗的家庭中长大，他的父母从未讨论过上帝。然而，他表示，他一直对宗教感兴趣。
十一年后，他回到斯坦福，完成了哲学文学学士学位。 2009年，获得博士学位。加州大学洛杉矶分校神经科学学位，使用功能磁共振成像对信念、怀疑和不确定性的神经基础进行研究。

Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity pdf 山姆·哈里斯

From the bestselling author of Waking Up and The End of Faith, an adaptation of his wildly popular, often controversial podcast
“Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations.” —Sam Harris
Sam Harris—neuroscientist, philosopher, and bestselling author—has been exploring some of the most important questions about the human mind, society, and current events on his podcast, Making Sense. With over one million downloads per episode, these discussions have clearly hit a nerve, frequently walking a tightrope where either host or guest—and sometimes both—lose their footing, but always in search of a greater understanding of the world in which we live. For Harris, honest conversation, no matter how difficult or controversial, represents the only path to moral and intellectual progress.
This book includes a dozen of the best conversations from Making Sense, including talks with Daniel Kahneman, Timothy Snyder, Nick Bostrom, and Glenn Loury, on topics that range from the nature of consciousness and free will, to politics and extremism, to living ethically. Together they shine a light on what it means to “make sense” in the modern world.