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Sam Harris
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American author, philosopher and neuroscientist (born 1967)
Sam Harris is an American author, philosopher, and neuroscientist known for writing and speaking about topics including religion, morality, consciousness, and neuroscience. His work matters to many readers and listeners because he engages with foundational questions about how humans should live and understand the world, though his ideas are also widely debated and contested.
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Sam Harris is the author of the bestselling books The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, and Waking Up. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. His writing and public lectures cover a wide range of topics—neuroscience, moral philosophy, religion, spirituality, violence, human reasoning—but generally focus on how a growing…
Known for
- Islam and the Future of Tolerance — Self2018
- Waking Up — Himself2015
- Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things — Self2015
- StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson — Self2015
- The Unbelievers — Self2013
- The God Debate II — Himself2011
- Holy Wars — Himself2010
- Discussions with Richard Dawkins, Episode 1: The Four Horsemen — Self2008
- Atheist Alliance International Convention 2007 — Self2008
- The God Who Wasn't There — Self2005
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Benjamin
- Family name
- Harris
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles
- Mother
- Susan Harris
- Occupation
- podcaster
- Educated at
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Political party
- Democratic Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Field of work
- meditation
- Movement
- New Atheism
- Official website
- www.samharris.org
- Image
- Sam Harris 2016 (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- Sam Harris
- date of birth
- 1967-04-09
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- Sam Harris
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- Jewish people
- start of work period
- 2004-00-00
- name in kana
- サム・ハリス
- name in native language
- Samuel Benjamin Harris
- short name
- Sam Harris
- social media followers
- 810000
- writing language
- English language
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- intellectual dark web
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- Samuel Benjamin Harris
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Encyclopedic overview
Samuel Benjamin Harris (born April 9, 1967) is an American neuroscientist, philosopher, author, and podcast host. His work includes a range of topics, including rationality, religion, ethics, free will, determinism, neuroscience, meditation, psychedelics, philosophy of mind, politics, terrorism, and artificial intelligence. Harris came to prominence for his criticism of religion, and he is known as one of the "Four Horsemen" of New Atheism, along with Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett.
Harris's first book, The End of Faith (2004), won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction and remained on The New York Times Best Seller list for 33 weeks. He has since written six additional books: Letter to a Christian Nation (2006); The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (2010); the essay Lying (2011); the short book Free Will (2012); Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion (2014); and (with British writer Maajid Nawaz) Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue (2015). His work has been translated into over 20 languages.
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