Sam Harris
American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Samuel Benjamin Harris 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.
Sam Harris's Published Works
Published Works
- The moral landscape : how science can determine human values (2010) (308)
- The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (2004) (293)
- Letter to a Christian Nation (2006) (199)
- Neural correlates of maintaining one’s political beliefs in the face of counterevidence (2016) (155)
- Functional neuroimaging of belief, disbelief, and uncertainty (2008) (142)
- The Neural Correlates of Religious and Nonreligious Belief (2009) (139)
- Performance comparison of machine learning algorithms and number of independent components used in fMRI decoding of belief vs. disbelief (2011) (110)
- The Moral Landscape (2010) (32)
- Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue (2015) (23)
- Waking Up: Searching for Spirituality Without Religion (2014) (9)
- ISLAM AND THE FUTURE OF TOLERANCE (2015) (6)
- Correction: The Neural Correlates of Religious and Nonreligious Belief (2010) (2)
- The Four Horsemen (2019) (1)
- Scientists should unite against threat from religion (2007) (0)
- Books in brief (2012) (0)
- What Kind of Religion Is Safe for Society ? (2016) (0)
- A Hollywood Christmas at the haunted town (1996) (0)
- Politics Is a Joke! How TV Comedians Are Remaking Political Life by S. Robert Lichter, Jody C. Baumgartner, and Jonathan S. Morris (review) (2017) (0)
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What Are Sam Harris's Academic Contributions?
Sam Harris is most known for their academic work in the field of philosophy. They are also known for their academic work in the fields of and biology.
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