Sam Harris

Sam Harris is the author of the bestselling books The End of Faith Letter to a Christian Nation The Moral Landscape Free Will Lying and Waking Up The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction His writing and public lectures cover a wide range of topicsneuroscience moral philosophy religion spirituality violence human reasoningbut generally focus on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live  Mr Harris and his work have been discussed in  The New York Times Time Scientific American NatureRolling Stone and many other journals He has written for The New York Times The Los Angeles Times The Economist The Times London The Boston Globe The Atlantic The Annals of Neurology among others His work has been published in more than 15 languages  Mr Harris is a cofounder and the 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 PhD in neuroscience from UCLA