Okay, I just noticed today that Sam Harris wrote a book in 2012 that says there's no free will. Sorry if it sounds like I'm behind. Once upon a time some of us liked Sam Harris and thought he said a lot of good things. Now more recently he chooses by his own free will to write a book that says there's no free will. If there really isn't any free will then there's no point reading the book or writing it, and if there is free will then he's just contradicting himself. It's irrational either way, and that means it's worse than illogical. For a much more detailed argument see Objectivism chapter 2. Now guess who's singing the praises of Harris's book! Go ahead, guess.
Answer: philosophy professors! Of course. Mainstream philosophy professors at big name universities like Duke and U Chicago. Talk about chickens coming home to roost. They love it because this is exactly the kind of crap they've been pushing for 100+ years. And like any skeptical philosophy, it's self-refuting, because the writer claims certainty of his uncertainty. Now guess what his next book is going to be. It's a book that says as long as you don't believe in A god, religion is okay. In common parlance this is called New Age, but of course the roots of this attitude are ancient. So now that Harris has spent a lot of time and pages on reason, science and logic, he is turning back to the primitive mysticism that he kept mentioning but putting off. Imagine the flock that's going to come home to roost for THAT one. Some New Atheist. I am disappointed but sadly not surprised.
