Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity
About this audiobook
From
the bestselling author of Waking Up and The
End of Faith, a collection of the best conversations
from his wildly popular, often controversial podcast, Making Sense.
“Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations.” —Sam
Harris
Sam
Harris—neuroscientist, philosopher, and bestselling author—has been exploring
some of the most important questions about the human mind, society, and current
events on his podcast, Making
Sense. With over one million downloads per episode, these discussions
have clearly hit a nerve, frequently walking a tightrope where either host or
guest—and sometimes both—lose their footing, but always in search of a greater
understanding of the world in which we live. For Harris, honest conversation,
no matter how difficult or controversial, represents the only path to moral and
intellectual progress.
The Making
Sense audiobook
includes talks with Daniel Kahneman, Timothy Snyder, Nick Bostrom, and Glen Loury, on topics that range from the nature of
consciousness and free will, to politics and extremism, to living ethically.
Together they shine a light on what it means to “make sense” in the modern
world.
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About the author
Sam Harris is the author of the bestselling books The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, and Lying. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction and his work has been published in more than 20 languages. He has written for the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the Economist, the Times (London), the Boston Globe, the Atlantic, the Annals of Neurology, and elsewhere. He received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.
Daniel Kahneman was the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Princeton University and a former professor of public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He received the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his pioneering work with Amos Tversky on decision-making. He is the author of the international bestseller Thinking, Fast and Slow, which has sold more than 2.5 million copies. In 2013, President Barack Obama awarded Kahneman the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He died in 2024.
