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Sam Harris

Name in Native Language: "Samuel Benjamin Harris" (English/EN)
Neuroscientist / Writer | * 04/09/1967 (56) | USA (United States of America (USA))
Samuel Benjamin Harris (born April 9, 1967) is an American philosopher, neuroscientist, author, and podcast host. His work touches on a range of topics, including rationality, religion, ethics, free will, neuroscience, meditation, psychedelics, philosophy of mind, politics, terrorism, and artificial intelligence. Harris came to prominence for his criticism of religion, and 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. Harris has since written six additional books: Letter to a Christian Nation in 2006, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values in 2010, the 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 writer Maajid Nawaz) Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue in 2015. Harris's work has been translated into over 20 languages. Some critics have argued that Harris's writings are Islamophobic. Harris and his supporters, h... ()
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Sam Harris is the author of the bestselling booksThe End of Faith,Letter to a Christian Nation,The Moral Landscape,Free Will,Lying,andWaking Up.The End of Faithwon 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 understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live. Mr. Harris and his work have been discussed inThe New York Times,Time,Scientific American,Nature,Rolling Stone, and manyother journals. He has written forThe New York Times,The Los Angeles Times,The Economist,The Times(London),The Boston Globe,The Atlantic,The Annals of Neurology,among others. His work has been published in more than 15 languages. Mr. Harris is a cofounder and the CEO ofProject Reason, a nonprofit foundation devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society. He received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.

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Born: Sunday, 04/09 1967 (April) in USA (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 56 years + 355 days)
Zodiac sign: Aries (Chinese zodiac sign: Goat)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Stanford University, University of California, Los Angeles
Member of: intellectual dark web
Spouses (current/former): Annaka Harris
Father: Berkeley Harris
Mother: Susan Harris
Other names for Sam Harris (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Samuel Benjamin Harris"
"サム・ハリス" (Kana/Japanese)
Sam Harris frequently works together with these people:
Bill Maher (4x, Actor)
Matt D'Avella (4x, Crew)
Richard Dawkins (3x, Actor)
Billy Martin (3x, Crew)
Brian Flemming (2x, Crew)
Al Gore (2x, Actor)
Daniel C. Dennett (2x, Actor)
Stephen Marshall (2x, Crew)
Ryan Nicodemus (2x, Actor)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2x, Actress)

Other people with this name: Sam Harris (US), Sam Harris (US)

WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:1411256, Added: 09/05/2019, Last updated: 03/21/2024