Unfortunately, I've only heard awful things about Harris' stuff. It sounds like he takes relatively simplistic thought about how values relate to mental states, and then supplements it with simplistic thought about how mental states relate to fMRI scans, and then tries to claim that the resulting theory is more "objective" because it uses fancy science. But then again, I haven't actually read his stuff, this is just what I've gathered from some philosopher friends who have read some of it, and seeing on his wikipedia entry that he did some philosophy early in his career, then studied some Buddhism, and then recently got a PhD in some of the brain scanning stuff.
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Date: 2010-11-12 05:57 am (UTC)