Sam Harris: Critical Responses

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Sam Harris sparked off the unexpected phenomenon of the New Atheism with his best-seller The End of Faith (2004), and has since authored five more best-sellers on different topics, as well as becoming a leading presence on social media. His podcast Making Sense has an enormous popular following. Harris is celebrated as an opponent of theistic religion, a warning voice against the menace of Islamism, an atheist advocate of spiritual meditation (in the Tibetan Buddhist manner). He is a proponent of the controversial view that science can solve all ethical problems, and a disbeliever in the existence of free will. Because of this, Harris is frequently a target of hostility. Critics accuse him of being a soulless mechanistic worldview, a bigoted Islamophobism, and a scientistic denier of deeper humanity. In 2018, professor Robert Wright of the Union Theological Seminary wrote that "the famous proponent of New Atheism is on a crusade against tribalism but seems oblivious to his own version of it.” Sam Harris: Critical Responses is a collection of essays criticizing different aspects of Harris's thinking from a range of diverse perspectives—left and right, Christian and atheist, philosophical, psychological, and political. Though the criticisms are often severe, the approach is always reasonable and respectful. As one noted author commented on Sandra Woien's previous collection, Jordan Peterson: Critical Responses, "Both fans and foes will appreciate this volume.”