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Sam Harris

American author, philosopher and neuroscientist (born 1967)

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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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Born: 1967
Works: 27

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What Are You Optimistic About?
Mehumat Elohim
The Four Horsemen
Tears at Bitter Manor
End of Faith

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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.