Sam Harris is the author of multiple New York Times best sellers, including The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, Waking Up, and Islam and the Future of Tolerance (co-authored with Maajid Nawaz). The End of Faith received the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction.
Harris’s writing and public lectures span a broad range of subjects – neuroscience, moral philosophy, religion, meditation, human violence, and rationality, while consistently exploring how advances in our understanding of the mind and world shape our view of how we ought to live. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has been featured or discussed in publications such as The New York Times, Scientific American, Nature, and The Guardian. He has contributed essays to The Los Angeles Times, The Economist, The Times (London), The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, PNAS, and The Annals of Neurology, among others.
Harris is also the host of the Making Sense podcast, which has been recognised by Apple as one of the “iTunes Best” and has received a Webby Award for Best Podcast in the Science & Education category. The podcast examines a wide spectrum of topics at the intersection of science, philosophy, and spirituality, including morality, free will, neuroscience, meditation, psychedelics, and artificial intelligence, and features conversations with leading scientists, philosophers, authors, and contemplative teachers.
Harris earned a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA. He has practiced meditation for more than three decades and has trained with a variety of Tibetan, Indian, Burmese, and Western teachers. He is also the creator of Waking Up, a meditation app designed to teach mindfulness and contemplative practice within a modern, scientifically informed framework.
