Sam Harris

Samuel Benjamin Harris (born April 9, 1967) is an American author. He is a philosopher^[source?], neuroscientist^[source?], atheist and humanist . He is the co-founder and CEO of Project Reason.^[3]

Sam Harris
Harris in March 2016
Born	Samuel Benjamin Harris[1] (1967-04-09) April 9, 1967 (age 58) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Author
Citizenship	United States
Education	B.A. in Philosophy, Stanford University (2000) Ph.D. in Neuroscience, University of California, Los Angeles (2009)
Genre	Non-fiction
Subject	Neuroscience, philosophy,[2] religion, ethics, spirituality
Notable awards	PEN/Martha Albrand Award, Webby Award
Spouse	Annaka Harris ​ (m. 2004)​
Children	2
Signature
Philosophy career
Era	Contemporary
Region	Western
School	New Atheism
Thesis	The moral landscape: How science could determine human values (2009)
Main interests	Neuroscience, religion, ethics, free will, spirituality, philosophy of mind
Notable ideas	The Moral Landscape, Ethics as a branch of science
Influences Bertrand Russell, John Stuart Mill, Daniel Dennett
Website
samharris.org

Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and Daniel Dennett are commonly known as the "Four Horsemen of Atheism".^[4]

Controversies

In 2014, Sam Harris appeared on Bill Maher’s show and criticized Islam so Ben Affleck accused him of racism and Harris ended up debating Cenk Uygur about what he had said. Sam Harris also caused controversy when he interviewed Charles Murray with Ezra Klein accusing him of racist pseudoscience for doing that so Harris debated Ezra Klein. Harris called himself part of the Intellectual Dark Web until 2020 when he said he was leaving because the Intellectual Dark Web had become too pro-Trump. In 2021, Harris was criticized by Dave Rubin and Bret Weinstein for saying he was grateful to Jack Dorsey for banning Donald Trump from Twitter.

Books

• The End of Faith (2004). ISBN 0-393-03515-8
• Letter to a Christian Nation (2006). ISBN 0-307-26577-3
• The Moral Landscape: how science can determine human values (2010). ISBN 978-1-4391-7121-9
• Lying (2011).
• Free Will (2012)^[5]
• Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion (2014)
• Islam and the Future of Tolerance (2015)