Samuel Benjamin "
Sam"
Harris (born April 9, 1967) is an American
author,
philosopher, and
neuroscientist. Harris is the co-founder and chief executive of
Project Reason, a
non-profit organization that promotes
science and
secularism, and host of the
podcast:
Waking Up with Sam Harris. As an author, he wrote the book
The End of Faith, which was published in 2004 and appeared on
The New York Times Best Seller list for 33 weeks. The book also won the
PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction in 2005. In 2006, Harris published the book
Letter to a Christian Nation as a response to criticism of
The End of Faith. This work was followed by
The Moral Landscape, published in 2010, in which Harris argues that science can help answer
moral problems and can aid the facilitation of
human well-being. He subsequently published a long-form essay
Lying in 2011, the short book
Free Will in 2012,
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion in 2014 and
Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue in 2015.