Sam Harris is an American 🏷️#author, 🏷️#philosopher, 🏷️#neuroscientist, and host of the Making Sense podcast. His writing focuses on rationality, ethics, religion, free will, and consciousness, drawing on his neuroscience training to apply empirical methods to questions traditionally treated as philosophical or theological.
Harris holds a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from UCLA. His books include The End of Faith (2004), Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), The Moral Landscape (2010), Free Will (2012), Lying (2011), and Waking Up (2014). He is one of four writers grouped under the "New Atheism" label of the mid-2000s. He also produces the Waking Up meditation app, which guides users through secular contemplative practice. Harris is among the figures named in the 📝Intellectual Dark Web coinage.