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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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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1967
- Works
- 27
Top works
- Islam and the future of tolerance
- What Are You Optimistic About?
- Mehumat Elohim
- The Four Horsemen
- Tears at Bitter Manor
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1947-04-02
Discography
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 45,561x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,356x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,734x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 22,167x
- The REDCap consortium: Building an international community of software platform partners
· 2019 · cited 20,842x
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Quotes
- “It is time we admitted that we are not at war with "terrorism". We are at war with Islam. This is not to say that we are at war with all Muslims, but we are absolutely at war with the vision of life that is prescribed to all Muslims in the Koran. The only reason Muslim fundamentalism is a threat to us is because the fundamentals of Islam are a threat to us.”
- “Unreason is now ascendant in the United States—in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government. Only 28 percent of Americans believe in evolution; 68 percent believe in Satan. Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.”
- “It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum. There is no question but that nominally religious scientists like Francis Collins and Kenneth R. Miller are doing lasting harm to our discourse by the accommodations they have made to religious irrationality.”
- “We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.”
- “The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable.”
- “The principal tenet of Jainism is non-harming. Observant Jains will literally not harm a fly. Fundamentalist Jainism and fundamentalist Islam do not have the same consequences, neither logically nor behaviorally.”
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.samharris.org
- Image
- Sam Harris 2016 (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- Commons category
- Sam Harris
- date of birth
- 1967-04-09
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- Sam Harris
- 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
- birth name
- Samuel Benjamin Harris
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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.