Sam Harris

Born 1967

Sam Harris (born 1967) is an American non-fiction writer, neuroscientist and proponent of scientific skepticism. He is the author of The End of Faith (2004), which won the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award, and Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), a rejoinder to the criticism his first book attracted.

Quotes

“The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments, and a passionate unwillingness to do so.”
2000s
“You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.”
Free Will, p. 14
“I do not choose to choose what I choose.”
Free Will, p. 39
“Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.”
The End of Faith
“Your mind is all you truly have.”
2010s

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Books by Sam Harris in order

Books by Sam Harris in the order they were published, from Reclaiming Our Democracy (1993) to Making Sense (2020).

Books like Islam and the Future of Tolerance

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Christopher HitchensA fellow New Atheist writer whose God Is Not Great (2007) makes similar arguments against religion in a more polemical style.
Richard DawkinsAuthor of The God Delusion (2006), a central text of the New Atheism movement that Harris is often grouped with.
Daniel DennettA philosopher who writes about consciousness and free will from a naturalist view, and whose work on free will (Freedom Evolves, 2003) connects to Harris's Free Will.
Maajid NawazCo-author of Islam and the Future of Tolerance, who writes about extremism and reform within Islam from a different personal perspective.
Jonathan HaidtA social psychologist who writes about moral psychology and political divisions, which overlaps with Harris's interest in ethics and political tolerance.

Sam Harris

Quotes

Books by Sam Harris in order

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