Sam Harris
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| Born | Samuel Benjamin Harris April 9, 1967 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author, cognitive neuroscientist, non-profit executive, philosopher |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | Philosophy (B.A. 2000), Neuroscience (Ph.D. 2009) |
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Stanford University University of California, Los Angeles |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Subject | Neuroscience, philosophy,religion |
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| Notable awards | PEN/Martha Albrand Award |
| Spouse | Annaka Harris (m. 2004) |
| Children | 2 |
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Samuel Benjamin "Sam" Harris (born April 9, 1967) is an American author, philosopher, and neuroscientist. He is the co-founder and chief executive of Project Reason, a non-profit organization that promoted science and secularism, and host of the Waking Up podcast. His book The End of Faith (2004), a critique of organized religion, appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list for 33 weeks and also won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction in 2005.Letter to a Christian Nation (2006) was a response to criticism of The End of Faith. In The Moral Landscape (2010), Harris argues that science can help answer moral problems and aid human well-being. He subsequently published a long-form essay Lying in 2011, the short book Free Will in 2012, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion in 2014 and, with British activist Maajid Nawaz, Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue in 2015.
Harris is considered a member of the "Four Horsemen of New Atheism", alongside Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and the late Christopher Hitchens. He is an advocate of separation of church and state, critic of religion, and proponent of the liberty to criticize it. He has praised Advaita Vedanta and Dzogchen, however, as "they contain empirical insights about the nature of consciousness that do not depend upon faith." Harris' writings on religion have drawn both praise and criticism.
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