サム・ハリス Harris, Sam
アメリカ合衆国カリフォルニア州ロサンゼルスで生まれる。父は俳優でクエーカーのバークレー・ハリス、母はユダヤ人でテレビプロデューサーのスーザン・ハリス[1]。 誕生して間もなく両親の離婚に伴い母親に引き取られ育てられる。スタンフォード大学に入学し、MDMAが精神に与える影響について研究する。大学在学中にインド哲学に魅了され、 スタンフォード大を休学してインドへ渡る。チベット仏教の高僧ディルゴ・キェンツェに師事。また、インドやネパールで多くのヒンドゥー教や仏教の宗教者たちから教えを受ける。 それから11年後の1997年にスタンフォード大学に復学、2000年に哲学の学位を取得。2009年にカリフォルニア大学ロサンゼルス校で認知神経科学の博士号を取得した。2004年に科学出版物の編集者アナカ・ハリスと結婚し、子供が二人いる。またブラジリアン柔術など武道の愛好家として知られる。
Samuel Benjamin Harris (born April 9, 1967) is an American neuroscientist, philosopher, author, and podcast host. His work includes a range of topics, including rationality, religion, ethics, free will, determinism, neuroscience, meditation, psychedelics, philosophy of mind, politics, terrorism, and artificial intelligence. Harris came to prominence for his criticism of religion, and he is known as one of the “Four Horsemen” of New Atheism, along with Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett.
Harris’s first book, The End of Faith (2004), won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction and remained on The New York Times Best Seller list for 33 weeks. He has since written six additional books: Letter to a Christian Nation (2006); The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (2010); the essay Lying (2011); the short book Free Will (2012); Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion (2014); and (with British writer Maajid Nawaz) Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue (2015). His work has been translated into over 20 languages.
Since September 2013, Harris has hosted the Making Sense podcast (originally titled Waking Up). He also launched a meditation app called Waking Up, promoting secular mindfulness practices. Harris has debated with many prominent figures on religion, including Reza Aslan, David Wolpe, Robert Wright, Rick Warren, William Lane Craig, Jordan Peterson and Deepak Chopra. Some critics have argued that Harris’s writings and public statements on Islam are Islamophobic; Harris and his supporters reject that characterization, arguing instead that the label is sometimes used to silence criticism.
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Sam Harris “Why I Won’t Debate Critics of Israel”
A note to the Making Sense Community
