The Moral Landscape: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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A few months after the book's release, Harris wrote a follow-up at ''[[HuffPost|The Huffington Post]]'' responding to his critics.<ref name="huffingtonpost.com">{{cite news| url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-harris/a-response-to-critics_b_815742.html | work=Huffington Post | first=Sam | last=Harris | title=A Response to Critics | date=2011-05-25}}</ref>

On August 31, 2013, in response to the negative reviews of his book, Harris issued a public challenge for anyone to write an essay of less than 1,000 words rebutting the book's "central argument".<ref name="MLChallenge">[httphttps://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-moral-landscape-challenge1/ The Moral Landscape Challenge : : Sam Harris]</ref> The submissions were vetted by Russell Blackford, with the author of the essay judged best to receive $2,000, or $20,000 if they succeeded in changing Harris's mind.<ref name="MLChallenge"/> Four hundred and twenty-four essays were received by the deadline.<ref>[https://twitter.com/Metamagician/status/433134620637274113 "Twitter Russell Blackford"]</ref> On March 11, 2014, Blackford announced the winning essay was by philosophy instructor Ryan Born.<ref>[httphttps://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-moral-landscape-challenge ''The Moral Landscape Challenge: The Winning Essay'']</ref>

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