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 fifteen languages. ... and CEO of Project Reason, a nonprofit foundation devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society. He received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA. www.samharris.org ...

Oklahoma-born Sam Harris left home at age 15, moving from St. Louis to Nashville and finally to Los Angeles, where he attended U.C.L.A. It was in Los Angeles that Harris found fame, becoming the grand champion of television talent show ...

If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world -- and there clearly are -- then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

The Moral Landscape: Q & A with Sam Harris. image. 1. Are there right and wrong answers to moral questions? Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us ...

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Sam Harris is making a lot of stops on the coasts this fall during his upcoming book tour for The Moral Landscape. (I see nothing in Chicago. *sniff* I see how it is, Sam. I'll take the hint.) One of his stops, though, will be an event ...

Best-selling author and neuroscientist Sam Harris will speak at three Center for Inquiry branches on his U.S. book tour promoting his latest and much-anticipated work, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values . ...

In today's Daily Beast, atheist activist and author Sam Harris takes a page from the Christian Right, declaring Islam a threat to civil society and condemning those who would uphold Constitutional principles of freedom of religion and ...

In "What Obama Got Wrong About the Mosque," August 13, Sam Harris breaks with the Leftist pro-Islamic supremacism lockstep that usually prevails at the Daily Beast and offers some common sense about the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque ...

Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation. His next book, The Moral Landscape, will be published in October. His website is www.samharris.org. X Close. Sam Harris ...