Waking Up with Sam Harris show

Waking Up with Sam Harris

Summary: Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores important and controversial questions about the human mind, society, and current events. Sam Harris is the author of The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, Waking Up, and Islam and the Future of Tolerance (with Maajid Nawaz). The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. His writing has been published in more than 20 languages. Mr. Harris and his work have been discussed in The New York Times, Time, Scientific American, Nature, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and many other journals. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Economist, Newsweek, The Times (London), The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Annals of Neurology, and elsewhere. Mr. Harris received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.

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 #48 — What Is Moral Progress? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:57:52

In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with philosopher Peter Singer about the foundations of morality, expanding the circle of our moral concern, politics, free speech, conspiracy thinking, Edward Snowden, the importance of intentions, WWII, euthanasia, eating “happy cows,” and other topics.

 #47 — The Frontiers of Political Correctness | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:51:55

In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Gad Saad about political correctness, academic taboos, Islam, immigration, Donald Trump, and other topics.

 #46 — The End of Faith Sessions 3 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:05:47

In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris reads and discusses the third chapter of "The End of Faith." Topics covered: Christianity, Judaism, the Inquisition, witchcraft, anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust.

 #45 — Ask Me Anything 5 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:20:39

In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris answers questions from listeners about how 9/11 changed his life, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, free will, why he podcasts, Milo and the alt-Right, identity politics, Clinton vs. Trump, vegetarianism, and the Hannibal Buress episode.

 #44 — Being Good and Doing Good: A Conversation with William MacAskill | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 02:10:39

In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Oxford philosopher William MacAskill about effective altruism, moral illusions, existential risk, and other topics.

 #43 — What Do Jihadists Really Want? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:48:49

In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris reads from the latest issue of "Dabiq," the magazine of ISIS, and discusses the beliefs and goals of jihadists worldwide.

 #42 — Racism and Violence in America: A Conversation with Glenn C. Loury | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 02:06:44

In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris talks to economist Glenn C. Loury about racism, police violence, the Black Lives Matter movement, and related topics.

 #41 — Faith in Reason | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 02:24:23

In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Eric Weinstein about the relationship between faith and reason and about some of the factors that make conversations on important topics so difficult.

 #40 — Complexity & Stupidity: A Conversation with David Krakauer | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:43:13

In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris talks to biologist David Krakauer about information, complex systems, and the future of humanity.

 #39 — Free Will Revisited: A Conversation with Daniel Dennett | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:44:27

In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with philosopher Daniel Dennett about free will.

 #38 — The End of Faith Sessions 2 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 02:39:55

In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris reads and discusses the second chapter of "The End of Faith." However, the first hour of this podcast focuses on Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and the political implications of the recent terrorist attack in Orlando. Discussion of The End of Faith begins at 1:04:30.

 #37 — Thinking in Public: A Conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:44:44

In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson about the public understanding of science, his career as an educator, political atheism, racism, artificial intelligence, alien life, and other topics.

 #36 — What Makes Us Safer? A Conversation with Juliette Kayyem | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:22:58

In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with a leading expert on homeland security about the war on terror, profiling, Islamism, and other topics.

 #35 — The End Of Faith Sessions 1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 02:01:09

In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris reads and discusses the first chapter of "The End of Faith."

 #34 — The Light of the Mind: A Conversation with David Chalmers | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:44:59

In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with philosopher David Chalmers about the nature of consciousness, the challenges of understanding it scientifically, and the prospect that we will one day build it into our machines.

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