Experts
Sam Harris
Author
Sam Harris on the absence of neuroses. Read More
Technology is furthering environmental consciousness Read More
Too much attachment to myth worries Sam Harris. Read More
Again this year, the New Atheist is giving up God. Read More
Sam Harris refutes the notion of an intelligent creator. Read More
Maybe God spoke in metaphor. Read More
Morality is one of the greatest challenges for modernity. Read More
Every benign religion, every religion that’s actually helping somebody sometimes could be functioning like a placebo. It could be totally barren of content and still useful in certain circumstances. Read More
Secular fundamentalism is a play on words. Read More
Religion does not teach grief, Harris says. Read More
Fighting ignorance. Read More
We are misled by the very term “religion," argues Sam Harris. Religion was simply the discourse humans used when all causes in the universe were opaque. Read More
Converging on a common project in a non-divisive, something religion does infrequently. Read More
Harris believes that certainty is a false goal. Read More
Harris believes faith is healthy and necessary. Read More
9/11 sparked Harris's interest in religion, and his journey to atheism. Read More
About Sam Harris
Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction.
Mr. Harris' writing has been published in over ten languages. He and his work have been discussed in Newsweek, TIME, The New York Times, Scientific American, Rolling Stone, and many other journals. His writing has appeared in Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, The Times (London), The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, Nature, The Annals of Neurology, and elsewhere.
Mr. Harris is a graduate in philosophy from Stanford University. He is completing a doctorate in neuroscience, studying the neural basis of belief with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). He is also a Co-Founder and Chairman of The Reason Project.