The Great Debate Panel: Sam Harris, Steven Pinker, Peter Singer, Patricia S. Churchland... Part 3

The Great Debate Panel

Speakers: Steven Pinker, Sam Harris, Patricia Churchland, Lawrence Krauss, Simon Blackburn, Peter Singer and Roger Bingham.

A lively panel discussion between Steven Pinker, Sam Harris, Patricia Churchland, Lawrence Krauss, Simon Blackburn, Peter Singer. If human morality is an evolutionary adaptation and if neuroscientists can identify specific brain circuitry governing moral judgment, can scientists determine what is, in fact, right and wrong?
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The Great Debate
On November 6th, 2010 a panel of renowned scientists, philosophers, and public intellectuals gathered to discuss what impact evolutionary theory and advances in neuroscience might have on traditional concepts of morality. If human morality is an evolutionary adaptation and if neuroscientists can identify specific brain circuitry governing moral judgment, can scientists determine what is, in fact, right and wrong? The panelists were psychologist Steven Pinker, author Sam Harris, philosopher Patricia Churchland, physicist Lawrence Krauss, philosopher Simon Blackburn, bioethicist Peter Singer and The Science Network's Roger Bingham.

Recorded live at the Arizona State University Gammage auditorium.

"The Great Debate" was sponsored by the ASU Origins Project in collaboration with the ASU Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law Center for Law, Science and Innovation; the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge; and The Science Network.

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[cutis1000]

@TheBestInterest Harris is no charlatan. He's asking you to consider the best available evidence to draw conclusions that are based on FACT, not superstition. The "new atheists" are, ironically, not new at all. Go read some Bertrand Russell. He's as "new" now as the die he died some 40+ years ago. The "new atheists" is a term coined by media to, in many ways, deride the free thinkers of today. You should think more and pray less!

[frilansspion]

love harris and pinker. thank goodness someone speaks some common sense in all this philosophical masturbation

[sam91004]

@nsugathadasa Not uncommon. Pinker's stance was also 'Yes' & 'No'. The reason, I guess, is because the term ''science'' is not properly defined. Everyone had great point, though. 

[OscarBrasa]

Science!

[nsugathadasa]

I saw 2 ladies in red clapping for both yes and no.

[valhallajormungand]

@danwilliams3239

[ZombieLincoln666]

@cutis1000

Did you actually have anything to say?

[cutis1000]

@ZombieLincoln666 We are all ignorant of what we don't know. Science doesn't proclaim to know everything. That's the point. Humanity evolves and as we continue to evolve so does our understanding of science and what science can tell us. 

[ZombieLincoln666]

@cutis1000

I conducted a science experiment and discovered that, in fact, The Beatles are the best band of all time.

If you disagree with me, you are a fucking idiot Christian.

[ZombieLincoln666]

@cutis1000

Science can solve everything ever, and anyone who disagrees with us is an ignorant theist.

Right?

[cutis1000]

@ZombieLincoln666 Stupid.