#92 — The Limits of Persuasion

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

Samharris, Currentevents, Politics, Ethics, Religion, Neuroscience, Science, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 29.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Sam Harris speaks with David Pizarro and Tamler Sommers about free speech on campus, the Scott Adams podcast, the failings of the mainstream media, moral persuasion, moral certainty, the ethics of abortion, Buddhism, the illusion of the self, and other topics.

SUBSCRIBE to listen to the rest of this episode and gain access to all full-length episodes of the podcast at samharris.org/subscribe.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris. Just a note to say that if you're
0:12.1	hearing this, you are not currently on our subscriber feed and will only be hearing
0:16.2	the first part of this conversation. In order to access full episodes of the Making Sense
0:20.7	Podcast, you'll need to subscribe at samharis.org. There you'll find our private RSS feed
0:26.1	to add to your favorite pod catcher, along with other subscriber-only content. We don't run ads
0:31.2	on the podcast, and therefore it's made possible entirely through the support of our subscribers.
0:35.8	So if you enjoy what we're doing here, please consider becoming one.
0:46.5	Today I am speaking with the very bad wizards, David Pizarro and Tamler Summers.
0:51.5	They have a podcast by that name, which I've been on, I think, twice. We debated free will at
0:59.5	great length. So if you're interested in that topic, you can listen to us there, and I recommend
1:05.5	you listen to their podcast. They touch fascinating subjects and in quite the year-reverent way,
1:12.7	and they do fantastic movie reviews as well. David Pizarro is a professor of psychology at Cornell.
1:20.0	He focuses on morality and moral judgment and the emotion of disgust, and needless to say,
1:28.8	all of that is incredibly relevant to this time and any other. And his partner in crime,
1:36.4	Tamler Summers is a professor of philosophy at the University of Houston, and he focuses primarily
1:42.3	on ethics and political philosophy and the philosophy of law. And he specializes in topics like
1:48.8	free will and moral responsibility, punishment, revenge, honor, again, fascinating, and all too relevant.
1:59.0	In this podcast, we essentially took questions from Twitter. People had heard us on the very bad
2:06.4	wizards podcast and had topics they wanted us to address. We talk about free speech on campus.
2:12.8	We do a fairly long post-mortem on my podcast with Scott Adams. So if you haven't heard that,
2:19.8	you might listen to that first. Otherwise, feel free to skip ahead, especially if you're sick to
2:25.6	death of hearing me talk about Trump. We talk about moral persuasion, and then we get into things
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Waking Up with Sam Harris, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Waking Up with Sam Harris and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.