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May
16
2010
He recently defended his views at The Huffington Post, where he spends a good deal of time responding to physicist and pop science writer, Sean Carroll. I'm not going to address the Carroll-Harris debate. I just want to look at some strengths and weakness of Harris' original argument.
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His basic claim is that moral judgments are facts about the well-being of conscious creatures, and that these facts can be measured in much the same way that facts about health are measured. His view is that "morally right" is just another way of saying "healthy for the prosperity of conscious beings." While we can disagree about what consciousness, health, and prosperity are, this does not detract from the essentially scientific nature of the way we should approach the issue.
As an evolutionary anthropologist and student of history, I'm always fascinated to learn what politically motivated figures have to say about human nature. It's one area of life where people require zero expertise but can still claim authority in. : The Primate Diaries
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