Table of Contents
225 relations: AI alignment, Al Jazeera English, Alexander Saxton, Alina Chan, Alt-right, Andrew Sullivan, Andrew Yang, Annaka Harris, Annals of Neurology, Antisemitic trope, Application software, Artificial intelligence, Atheism, Author, Bachelor of Arts, Barack Obama, Bari Weiss, Beliefnet, Ben Affleck, Ben Shapiro, Bernie Sanders, Bertrand Russell, Bill Gates, Bill Maher, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Bret Weinstein, Buddhism, Business Insider, Canada's National Observer, Cenk Uygur, Charles Murray (political scientist), Chicago Tribune, Christian right, Christopher Hitchens, Cognitive bias, Cognitive neuroscience, Coleman Hughes, Compatibilism, Consciousness, Conservatism in the United States, Contemporary philosophy, Counter-jihad, COVID-19 lab leak theory, COVID-19 pandemic, Criticism of religion, Cultural relativism, Current Biography, Daniel Dennett, Dave Rubin, David Chalmers, ... Expand index (175 more) »
- Action theorists
- American consciousness researchers and theorists
- American critics of postmodernism
- Critics of conspiracy theories
- Jewish American atheism activists
- Moral realists
- New Atheism
- People associated with effective altruism
- Philosophers of love
- Students of U Pandita
AI alignment
In the field of artificial intelligence (AI), AI alignment research aims to steer AI systems toward a person's or group's intended goals, preferences, and ethical principles.
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Al Jazeera English
Al Jazeera English (AJE; lit) is a 24-hour English-language news channel operating under Al Jazeera Media Network, which is partially funded by the government of Qatar.
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Alexander Saxton
Alexander Plaisted Saxton (July 16, 1919 – August 20, 2012) was an American historian, novelist, and university professor. Sam Harris and Alexander Saxton are activists from California.
See Sam Harris and Alexander Saxton
Alina Chan
Alina Chan is a Canadian molecular biologist specializing in gene therapy and cell engineering at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she is a postdoctoral fellow.
Alt-right
The alt-right (abbreviated from alternative right) is a far-right, white nationalist movement.
Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Michael Sullivan (born 10 August 1963) is a British-American author, editor, and blogger. Sam Harris and Andrew Sullivan are people involved in race and intelligence controversies.
See Sam Harris and Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang (born January 13, 1975) is an American businessman, attorney, lobbyist, author, and political candidate. Sam Harris and Andrew Yang are American podcasters.
See Sam Harris and Andrew Yang
Annaka Harris
Annaka Harris (née Gorton, born 1976) is an American writer. Sam Harris and Annaka Harris are American science writers.
See Sam Harris and Annaka Harris
Annals of Neurology
Annals of Neurology is a peer-reviewed medical journal publishing articles of "broad interest in neurology, particularly those with high impact in understanding the mechanisms and treatment of diseases of the human nervous system." The journal has a 2020 Journal Citation Reports impact factor of 10.422, ranking it 9th out of 208 journals in the category "Clinical Neurology".
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Antisemitic trope
Antisemitic tropes or antisemitic canards are "sensational reports, misrepresentations, or fabrications" that are defamatory towards Judaism as a religion or defamatory towards Jews as an ethnic or religious group.
See Sam Harris and Antisemitic trope
Application software
An application program (software application, or application, or app for short) is a computer program designed to carry out a specific task other than one relating to the operation of the computer itself, typically to be used by end-users.
See Sam Harris and Application software
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.
See Sam Harris and Artificial intelligence
Atheism
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.
Author
In legal discourse, an author is the creator of an original work, whether that work is in written, graphic, or recorded medium.
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. Sam Harris and Barack Obama are 21st-century American educators.
See Sam Harris and Barack Obama
Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss (born March 25, 1984) is an American journalist, writer, and editor. Sam Harris and Bari Weiss are American Zionists.
Beliefnet
Beliefnet is a Christian lifestyle website featuring editorial content related to the topics of inspiration, spirituality, health, wellness, love and family, news, and entertainment.
Ben Affleck
Benjamin Géza Affleck (born August 15, 1972) is an American actor and filmmaker. Sam Harris and Ben Affleck are activists from California.
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Ben Shapiro
Benjamin Aaron Shapiro (born January 15, 1984) is an American lawyer, columnist, author, and conservative political commentator. Sam Harris and Ben Shapiro are American Zionists and American critics of Islam.
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Bernie Sanders
Bernard Sanders (born September8, 1941) is an American politician and activist who is the senior United States senator from Vermont.
See Sam Harris and Bernie Sanders
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, logician, philosopher, and public intellectual. Sam Harris and Bertrand Russell are analytic philosophers, atheist philosophers, Freethought writers, metaphysics writers, philosophers of love, writers about activism and social change, writers about globalization and writers about religion and science.
See Sam Harris and Bertrand Russell
Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen.
Bill Maher
William Maher (born January 20, 1956) is an American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host. Sam Harris and Bill Maher are 21st-century atheists, American Zionists, American atheism activists, American atheists, American critics of Christianity, American critics of Islam, American critics of creationism, critics of conspiracy theories and Jewish American atheism activists.
Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ; jiu-jitsu brasileiro) is a self-defence martial art and combat sport based on grappling, ground fighting, and submission holds.
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Bret Weinstein
Bret Samuel Weinstein (born February 21, 1969) is an American podcaster, author, and former professor of evolutionary biology. Sam Harris and Bret Weinstein are American podcasters.
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Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Business Insider
Business Insider (stylized in all caps, shortened to BI, known from 2021 to 2023 as Insider) is a New York City–based multinational financial and business news website founded in 2007.
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Canada's National Observer
Canada's National Observer (CNO) is a news website that features daily news, analysis and opinion on energy, climate, politics, and social issues.
See Sam Harris and Canada's National Observer
Cenk Uygur
Cenk Kadir Uygur (born March 21, 1970) is a Turkish-born American politician, political commentator, and media host. Sam Harris and Cenk Uygur are activists from California, American atheists and California Democrats.
Charles Murray (political scientist)
Charles Alan Murray (born January 8, 1943) is an American political scientist. Sam Harris and Charles Murray (political scientist) are people involved in race and intelligence controversies.
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Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.
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Christian right
The Christian right, otherwise referred to as the religious right, are Christian political factions characterized by their strong support of socially conservative and traditionalist policies.
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Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British and American author, journalist, and educator. Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens are 21st-century American essayists, 21st-century American philosophers, 21st-century atheists, American atheists, American male essayists, American skeptics, atheist philosophers, critics of multiculturalism, new Atheism, writers about activism and social change, writers about globalization and writers about religion and science.
See Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens
Cognitive bias
A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment.
See Sam Harris and Cognitive bias
Cognitive neuroscience
Cognitive neuroscience is the scientific field that is concerned with the study of the biological processes and aspects that underlie cognition, with a specific focus on the neural connections in the brain which are involved in mental processes.
See Sam Harris and Cognitive neuroscience
Coleman Hughes
Coleman Cruz Hughes (born February 25, 1996) is an American writer and podcast host. Sam Harris and Coleman Hughes are American atheists and American podcasters.
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Compatibilism
Compatibilism is the belief that free will and determinism are mutually compatible and that it is possible to believe in both without being logically inconsistent.
See Sam Harris and Compatibilism
Consciousness
Consciousness, at its simplest, is awareness of internal and external existence.
See Sam Harris and Consciousness
Conservatism in the United States
Conservatism in the United States is based on a belief in individualism, traditionalism, republicanism, and limited federal governmental power in relation to U.S. states.
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Contemporary philosophy
Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the early 20th century with the increasing professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy.
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Counter-jihad
Counter-jihad, also known as the counter-jihad movement, is a self-titled political current loosely consisting of authors, bloggers, think tanks, street movements and so on linked by beliefs that view Islam not as a religion but as an ideology that constitutes an existential threat to Western civilization.
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COVID-19 lab leak theory
The COVID-19 lab leak theory, or lab leak hypothesis, is the idea that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, came from a laboratory.
See Sam Harris and COVID-19 lab leak theory
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.
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Criticism of religion
Criticism of religion involves criticism of the validity, concept, or ideas of religion.
See Sam Harris and Criticism of religion
Cultural relativism
Cultural relativism is the position that there is no universal standard to measure cultures by, and that all cultural values and beliefs must be understood relative to their cultural context, and not judged based on outside norms and values.
See Sam Harris and Cultural relativism
Current Biography
Current Biography is an American monthly magazine published by the H. W. Wilson Company of New York City, a publisher of reference books, that appears every month except December.
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Daniel Dennett
Daniel Clement Dennett III (March 28, 1942 – April 19, 2024) was an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett are 21st-century American philosophers, 21st-century atheists, American atheism activists, American consciousness researchers and theorists, American critics of Christianity, American critics of Islam, American critics of postmodernism, American philosophers of mind, American philosophers of science, American philosophers of technology, American skeptics, analytic philosophers, atheist philosophers, critics of multiculturalism, new Atheism, science activists, writers about activism and social change and writers about religion and science.
See Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett
Dave Rubin
David Joshua Rubin (born June 26, 1976) is an American libertarian-conservative political commentator. Sam Harris and Dave Rubin are American Zionists and American podcasters.
David Chalmers
David John Chalmers is an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in the areas of the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. Sam Harris and David Chalmers are American consciousness researchers and theorists and analytic philosophers.
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David Wolpe
David J. Wolpe (born September 19, 1958) is an American rabbi.
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Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra (born October 22, 1946) is an Indian-American author, new age guru, and alternative medicine advocate. Sam Harris and Deepak Chopra are American spiritual writers.
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Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
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Derek Parfit
Derek Antony Parfit (11 December 1942 – 2 January 2017) was a British philosopher who specialised in personal identity, rationality, and ethics. Sam Harris and Derek Parfit are analytic philosophers, moral realists and people associated with effective altruism.
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Dilgo Khyentse
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Tashi Paljor (c. 1910 – 28 September 1991) was a Vajrayana master, Terton, scholar, poet, teacher, and recognized by Buddhists as one of the greatest realized masters.
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Doctor of Philosophy
A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil; philosophiae doctor or) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research.
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Dogma
Dogma, in its broadest sense, is any belief held definitively and without the possibility of reform.
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
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Douglas Harding
Douglas Edison Harding (12 February 1909 – 11 January 2007) was an English philosophical writer, mystic, spiritual teacher and author of a number of books, including On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious (1961), which describes simple techniques he invented for readers to experience (not just understand) the non-duality of consciousness.
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Douglas Murray (author)
Douglas Murray (born 16 July 1979) is a British author and conservative political commentator, cultural critic, and journalist. Sam Harris and Douglas Murray (author) are critics of multiculturalism.
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Drug liberalization
Drug liberalization is a drug policy process of decriminalizing, legalizing, or repealing laws that prohibit the production, possession, sale, or use of prohibited drugs.
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Dzogchen
Dzogchen ("Great Perfection" or "Great Completion"), also known as atiyoga (utmost yoga), is a tradition of teachings in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and Bon aimed at discovering and continuing in the ultimate ground of existence.
Effective altruism
Effective altruism (EA) is a 21st-century philosophical and social movement that advocates impartially calculating benefits and prioritizing causes to provide the greatest good. It is motivated by "using evidence and reason to figure out how to benefit others as much as possible, and taking action on that basis".
See Sam Harris and Effective altruism
Empathogen
Empathogens or entactogens are a class of psychoactive drugs that induce the production of experiences of emotional communion, oneness, relatedness, emotional openness—that is, empathy or sympathy—as particularly observed and reported for experiences with 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA).
Eric Turkheimer
Eric Nathan Turkheimer is an American psychologist and the Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of psychology at the University of Virginia.
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Ethics
Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena.
Existential risk from artificial general intelligence
Existential risk from artificial general intelligence refers to the idea that substantial progress in artificial general intelligence (AGI) could lead to human extinction or an irreversible global catastrophe.
See Sam Harris and Existential risk from artificial general intelligence
Ezra Klein
Ezra Klein (born May 9, 1984) is an American journalist, political analyst, New York Times columnist, and the host of The Ezra Klein Show podcast. Sam Harris and Ezra Klein are American podcasters and California Democrats.
Faith
Faith is confidence or trust in a person, thing, or concept.
Federal Assault Weapons Ban
The Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, popularly known as the Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB or FAWB), was a subsection of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a United States federal law which included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms that were defined as assault weapons as well as certain ammunition magazines that were defined as large capacity.
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Female genital mutilation
Female genital mutilation (FGM) (also known as female genital cutting, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision) is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the vulva.
See Sam Harris and Female genital mutilation
Financial Times
The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.
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Frank Bruni
Frank Anthony Bruni (born October 31, 1964) is an American journalist writing for The New York Times since 1995.
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Free market
In economics, a free market is an economic system in which the prices of goods and services are determined by supply and demand expressed by sellers and buyers.
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Free will
Free will is the capacity or ability to choose between different possible courses of action.
Free Will (book)
Free Will is a 2012 book by American philosopher Sam Harris.
See Sam Harris and Free Will (book)
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Functional magnetic resonance imaging or functional MRI (fMRI) measures brain activity by detecting changes associated with blood flow.
See Sam Harris and Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Giving What We Can
Giving What We Can (GWWC) is an effective altruism-associated organisation whose members pledge to give at least 10% of their income to effective charities.
See Sam Harris and Giving What We Can
Gun culture in the United States
Gun culture in the United States encompasses the behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs about firearms and their use by private citizens.
See Sam Harris and Gun culture in the United States
Hamas
Hamas, an acronym of its official name, Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya (lit), is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant resistance movement governing parts of the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip since 2007.
Heritability of IQ
Research on the heritability of IQ inquires into the degree of variation in IQ within a population that is due to genetic variation between individuals in that population.
See Sam Harris and Heritability of IQ
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and as the first lady of the United States to former president Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001. Sam Harris and Hillary Clinton are American Zionists.
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Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
Hunter Biden
Robert Hunter Biden (born February 4, 1970) is an American attorney and businessman.
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Hunter Biden laptop controversy
In October 2020, a controversy arose involving data from a laptop that belonged to Hunter Biden.
See Sam Harris and Hunter Biden laptop controversy
India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Intellectual dark web
The intellectual dark web (IDW) is a term used to describe a loose affiliation of academics and social commentators who oppose the perceived influence of left wing–associated identity politics and political correctness in higher education and mass media.
See Sam Harris and Intellectual dark web
Irshad Manji
Irshad Manji (born 1968) is a Ugandan-born Canadian educator.
See Sam Harris and Irshad Manji
Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
Islam and the Future of Tolerance
Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue is a 2015 book collaboration between American author Sam Harris and British activist Maajid Nawaz.
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Islamic fundamentalism
Islamic fundamentalism has been defined as a revivalist and reform movement of Muslims who aim to return to the founding scriptures of Islam.
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Islamophobia
Islamophobia is the irrational fear of, hostility towards, or prejudice against the religion of Islam or Muslims in general.
See Sam Harris and Islamophobia
Israel–Hamas war
An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups has been taking place in the Gaza Strip and Israel since 7 October 2023.
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Israeli settlement
Israeli settlements, also called Israeli colonies, are the civilian communities built by Israel throughout the Israeli-occupied territories.
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Israeli–Palestinian conflict
The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is an ongoing military and political conflict about land and self-determination within the territory of the former Mandatory Palestine.
See Sam Harris and Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Jainism
Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.
Jean Houston
Jean Houston (born 10 May 1937) is an American author involved in the human potential movement. Sam Harris and Jean Houston are 21st-century American philosophers and American spiritual writers.
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Jewish state
In world politics, Jewish state is a characterization of Israel as the nation-state and sovereign homeland of the Jewish people.
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Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
Joe Rogan
Joseph James Rogan (born August 11, 1967) is an American podcaster, UFC color commentator, comedian, actor, and former television host. Sam Harris and Joe Rogan are American podcasters and American psychedelic drug advocates.
John McCain
John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018) was an American politician and United States Navy officer who served as a United States senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018.
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Jordan Peterson
Jordan Bernt Peterson (born 12 June 1962) is a Canadian psychologist, author, and media commentator. Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson are critics of multiculturalism.
See Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson
Kathryn Paige Harden
Kathryn Paige Harden is an American psychologist and behavioral geneticist who is Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Kenan Malik
Kenan Malik (born 26 January 1960) is a British writer, lecturer and broadcaster, trained in neurobiology and the history of science.
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Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviews is an American book review magazine founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus.
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Konstantin Kisin
Konstantin Vadimovich Kisin (born 25 December 1982) is a Russian-British satirist, author, libertarian pundit, and co-host (with Francis Foster) of the Triggernometry podcast.
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Kyle Smith (critic)
Kyle Smith (born 1966) is an American critic, columnist, and novelist.
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Letter to a Christian Nation
Letter to a Christian Nation is a 2006 book by Sam Harris, written in response to feedback he received following the publication of his first book The End of Faith. Sam Harris and Letter to a Christian Nation are new Atheism.
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Liberal Christianity
Liberal Christianity, also known as liberal theology and historically as Christian Modernism (see Catholic modernism and Fundamentalist–Modernist controversy), is a movement that interprets Christian teaching by taking into consideration modern knowledge, science and ethics.
See Sam Harris and Liberal Christianity
List of wars involving Iraq
This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Iraq and its predecessor states.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Lying (Harris book)
Lying is a 2011 long-form essay book by American author and neuroscience expert Sam Harris.
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Maajid Nawaz
Maajid Usman Nawaz (born 2 November 1977) is a British activist and former radio presenter. Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz are critics of multiculturalism.
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Mark S. Cohen
Mark Steven Cohen (born 1956) is an American neuroscientist and early pioneer of functional brain imaging using magnetic resonance imaging.
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Matt Ridley
Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley, (born 7 February 1958), is a British science writer, journalist and businessman. Sam Harris and Matt Ridley are 21st-century atheists.
See Sam Harris and Matt Ridley
Meditation
Meditation is a practice in which an individual uses a technique to train attention and awareness and detach from reflexive, "discursive thinking," achieving a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state, while not judging the meditation process itself.
Michael Shermer
Michael Brant Shermer (born September 8, 1954) is an American science writer, historian of science, executive director of The Skeptics Society, and founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, a publication focused on investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. Sam Harris and Michael Shermer are 21st-century American essayists, 21st-century atheists, American atheism activists, American atheists, American critics of Christianity, American critics of alternative medicine, American critics of creationism, American ethicists, American male essayists, American science writers, American skeptics, critics of conspiracy theories, science activists, writers about activism and social change and writers about religion and science.
See Sam Harris and Michael Shermer
Middlebury College
Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont.
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Mindfulness
Mindfulness is the cognitive skill, usually developed through meditation, of sustaining meta-attention on the contents of one's own mind in the present moment.
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Moral relativism
Moral relativism or ethical relativism (often reformulated as relativist ethics or relativist morality) is used to describe several philosophical positions concerned with the differences in moral judgments across different peoples and cultures.
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Morality
Morality is the categorization of intentions, decisions and actions into those that are proper (right) and those that are improper (wrong).
Mother lode
Mother lode is a principal vein or zone of gold or silver ore.
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Nathan J. Robinson
Nathan James Robinson is an English-American journalist, political commentator, and editor-in-chief of the left-wing progressive ''Current Affairs'' magazine, which he founded in 2015. Sam Harris and Nathan J. Robinson are 21st-century American essayists, American atheists, American male essayists, writers about activism and social change and writers about globalization.
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National Review
National Review is an American conservative editorial magazine, focusing on news and commentary pieces on political, social, and cultural affairs.
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National Rifle Association
The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is a gun rights advocacy group based in the United States.
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Natural selection
Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype.
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Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.
NeuroImage
NeuroImage is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on neuroimaging, including functional neuroimaging and functional human brain mapping.
Neuroscience
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders.
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Neuroscientist
A neuroscientist (or neurobiologist) is a scientist who has specialised knowledge in neuroscience, a branch of biology that deals with the physiology, biochemistry, psychology, anatomy and molecular biology of neurons, neural circuits, and glial cells and especially their behavioral, biological, and psychological aspect in health and disease.
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New Atheism
The term New Atheism describes the positions of some atheist academics, writers, scientists, and philosophers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Sam Harris and New Atheism are criticism of religion.
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Newsweek
Newsweek is a weekly news magazine.
Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom (Niklas Boström; born 10 March 1973 in Sweden) is a philosopher known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, whole brain emulation, superintelligence risks, and the reversal test. Sam Harris and Nick Bostrom are artificial intelligence ethicists and people associated with effective altruism.
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Nightline
Nightline (or ABC News Nightline) is ABC News' late-night television news program broadcast on ABC in the United States with a franchised formula to other networks and stations elsewhere in the world.
Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sam Harris and Noam Chomsky are 21st-century American essayists, 21st-century American philosophers, American critics of postmodernism, American epistemologists, American ethicists, American male essayists, American philosophers of mind, American philosophers of technology, analytic philosophers, critics of conspiracy theories, Freethought writers, metaphysics writers, philosophers of psychology, Rationalists, writers about activism and social change and writers about globalization.
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Non-fiction
Non-fiction (or nonfiction) is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to convey information only about the real world, rather than being grounded in imagination.
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Origin of SARS-CoV-2
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been efforts by scientists, governments, and others to determine the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
See Sam Harris and Origin of SARS-CoV-2
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Paul Tillich
Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German-American Christian existentialist philosopher, Christian socialist, and Lutheran theologian who was one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century.
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PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.
PCMag
PC Magazine (shortened as PCMag) is an American computer magazine published by Ziff Davis.
Peter Singer
Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. Sam Harris and Peter Singer are analytic philosophers, atheist philosophers and people associated with effective altruism.
See Sam Harris and Peter Singer
Philosophy
Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.
Philosophy of mind
The philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of the mind and its relation to the body and the external world.
See Sam Harris and Philosophy of mind
Playboy
Playboy (stylized in all caps) is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine, formerly in print and currently online.
PLOS One
PLOS One (stylized PLOS ONE, and formerly PLoS ONE) is a peer-reviewed open access mega journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLOS) since 2006.
Podcast
A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet.
Politico
Politico (stylized in all caps), known originally as The Politico, is an American political digital newspaper company.
Politics
Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status.
Presidency of George W. Bush
George W. Bush's tenure as the 43rd president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 2001, and ended on January 20, 2009.
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ProQuest
ProQuest LLC is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based global information-content and technology company, founded in 1938 as University Microfilms by Eugene Power.
Psychedelic drug
Psychedelics are a subclass of hallucinogenic drugs whose primary effect is to trigger non-ordinary mental states (known as psychedelic experiences or "trips") and a perceived "expansion of consciousness".
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Psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior.
Quakers
Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations.
Race and intelligence
Discussions of race and intelligence – specifically regarding claims of differences in intelligence along racial lines – have appeared in both popular science and academic research since the modern concept of race was first introduced.
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Rationality
Rationality is the quality of being guided by or based on reason.
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Real Time with Bill Maher
Real Time with Bill Maher is an American television talk show that airs weekly on HBO, hosted by comedian and political satirist Bill Maher.
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Religion
Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly was an American weekly television news-magazine program which aired on PBS.
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Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
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Reza Aslan
Reza Aslan (رضا اصلان,; born May 3, 1972) is an Iranian-American scholar of sociality, writer, and television host. Sam Harris and Reza Aslan are writers from Los Angeles.
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, and author. Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins are 21st-century atheists, critics of conspiracy theories, new Atheism, science activists and writers about religion and science.
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Richard E. Nisbett
Richard Eugene Nisbett (born June 1, 1941) is an American social psychologist and writer. Sam Harris and Richard E. Nisbett are people involved in race and intelligence controversies.
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Rick Warren
Richard Duane Warren (born January 28, 1954) is an American Baptist evangelical Christian pastor and author.
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Robert Wright (journalist)
Robert Wright (born January 15, 1957) is an American author and journalist known for his wide-ranging interests in philosophy, society, science (especially evolutionary psychology), history, politics, international relations, and religion. Sam Harris and Robert Wright (journalist) are American critics of creationism and American science writers.
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Salon.com
Salon is an American politically progressive and liberal news and opinion website created in 1995.
Samatha-vipassana
(Sanskrit: शमथ), "calm," "serenity," "tranquility of awareness," and (Pāli; Sanskrit: विपश्यना; Sinhala: විදර්ශනා), literally "special, super, seeing", are two qualities of the mind developed in tandem in Buddhist practice.
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Same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal sex.
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Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific mega journal published by Nature Portfolio, covering all areas of the natural sciences.
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September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.
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Slate (magazine)
Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States.
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Soap (TV series)
Soap is an American sitcom television series that originally ran on ABC from September 13, 1977, until April 20, 1981.
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Southern Poverty Law Center
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation.
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Spirituality
The meaning of spirituality has developed and expanded over time, and various meanings can be found alongside each other.
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Stanford University
Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.
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Stephanie Merritt
Stephanie Jane Merritt (born 1974 in Surrey) is an English literary critic and writer who has contributed to publications including The Times, The Daily Telegraph, the New Statesman, New Humanist and Die Welt.
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Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy)
The distinction between subjectivity and objectivity is a basic idea of philosophy, particularly epistemology and metaphysics.
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Superintelligence
A superintelligence is a hypothetical agent that possesses intelligence far surpassing that of the brightest and most gifted human minds.
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Susan Harris
Susan Harris (née Spivak; born October 28, 1940) is an American former television writer and producer who created the Emmy Award-winning sitcoms Soap (1977–1981) and The Golden Girls (1985–1992).
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Tablet (magazine)
Tablet is a conservative-leaning online magazine focused on Jewish news and culture.
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TED (conference)
TED Conferences, LLC (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an American-Canadian non-profit media organization that posts international talks online for free distribution under the slogan "ideas worth spreading".
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Terrorism
Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims.
The Atlantic
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.
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The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. Sam Harris and the Buddha are philosophers of love.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education is an American newspaper and website that presents news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty and student affairs professionals, including staff members and administrators.
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The Daily Beast
The Daily Beast is an American news website focused on politics, media, and pop culture.
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The Economist
The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.
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The End of Faith
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason is a 2004 book by Sam Harris, concerning organized religion, the clash between religious faith and rational thought, and the problem of intolerance that correlates with religious fundamentalism. Sam Harris and the End of Faith are new Atheism.
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The Golden Girls
The Golden Girls is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris that aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes, spanning seven seasons.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The Moral Landscape
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values is a 2010 book by Sam Harris, in which he promotes a science of morality and argues that many thinkers have long confused the relationship between morality, facts, and science.
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The New Republic
The New Republic is an American publisher focused on domestic politics, news, culture, and the arts, with ten magazines a year and a daily online platform.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The New York Times Best Seller list
The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States.
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The Spectator
The Spectator is a weekly British news magazine focusing on politics, culture, and current affairs.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.
The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Tibetan Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism is a form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet, Bhutan and Mongolia.
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Tom Flynn (author)
Thomas W. Flynn (August 18, 1955 – August 23, 2021) was an American author, journalist, novelist, executive director of the Council for Secular Humanism, and editor of its journal Free Inquiry. Sam Harris and Tom Flynn (author) are American atheists, American skeptics, atheist philosophers and Freethought writers.
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Union Theological Seminary
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York (shortened to UTS or Union) is a private ecumenical liberal Christian seminary in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, affiliated with Columbia University.
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University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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University of Central Florida College of Sciences
The University of Central Florida College of Sciences is the largest academic college of the University of Central Florida located in Orlando, Florida, United States.
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UpFront
UpFront is a current affairs discussion, debate and analysis programme on Al Jazeera English.
Vox (website)
Vox is an American news and opinion website owned by Vox Media.
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Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion is a 2014 book by Sam Harris that discusses a wide range of topics including secular spirituality (essentially within the context of spiritual naturalism), the illusion of the self, psychedelics, and meditation.
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War on terror
The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is a global counterterrorist military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks and is the most recent global conflict spanning multiple wars.
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Warren Buffett
Warren Edward Buffett (born August 30, 1930) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist who currently serves as the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.
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Washington Independent Review of Books
The Washington Independent Review of Books is a volunteer organization that operates a website for book reviews.
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Watkins Books
Watkins Books is London's oldest esoteric bookshop.
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Wayback Machine
The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by the Internet Archive, an American nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California.
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Webby Awards
The Webby Awards (colloquially referred to as the Webbys) are awards for excellence on the Internet presented annually by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a judging body composed of over three thousand industry experts and technology innovators.
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Well-being
Well-being, or wellbeing, also known as wellness, prudential value, prosperity or quality of life, is what is intrinsically valuable relative to someone.
Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.
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Western philosophy
Western philosophy, the part of philosophical thought and work of the Western world.
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William Lane Craig
William Lane Craig (born August 23, 1949) is an American analytic philosopher, Christian apologist, author, and Wesleyan theologian who upholds the view of Molinism and neo-Apollinarianism. Sam Harris and William Lane Craig are 21st-century American philosophers, American critics of postmodernism and analytic philosophers.
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Wired (magazine)
Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
14th Dalai Lama
The 14th Dalai Lama (spiritual name: Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, also known as Tenzin Gyatso;; born 6 July 1935) is, as the incumbent Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader and head of Tibetan Buddhism.
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2008 United States presidential election
The 2008 United States presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 4, 2008.
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2016 United States presidential election
The 2016 United States presidential election was the 58th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016.
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2020 United States presidential election
The 2020 United States presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020.
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2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel
On 7 October 2023, Hamas and several other Palestinian militant groups launched coordinated armed incursions from the Gaza Strip into the Gaza Envelope of southern Israel, the first invasion of Israeli territory since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
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See also
Action theorists
- Alvin Goldman
- Arif Ahmed (philosopher)
- B. F. Skinner
- Bill Brewer
- Bruce Aune
- C. D. Broad
- Carolina Sartorio
- Charles Taylor (philosopher)
- Constantine Sandis
- David Hume
- Diana Tietjens Meyers
- Donald Davidson (philosopher)
- Félix Ravaisson-Mollien
- Fred Dretske
- Friedrich Paulsen
- G. E. M. Anscombe
- Georg Henrik von Wright
- Harry Binswanger
- Harry Frankfurt
- J. L. Austin
- Jacques Rousseau (secular activist)
- Jaegwon Kim
- Jennifer Hornsby
- John L. Pollock
- Kenneth Burke
- Kirk Ludwig
- Mario Bunge
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Michael Bratman
- Nick Zangwill
- Patricia Greenspan
- Patrick Suppes
- Paul Boghossian
- Peter van Inwagen
- Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer
- Quentin Meillassoux
- Richard Boyd
- Robert Audi
- Sam Harris
- Samuel Alexander
- Scott MacDonald (philosopher)
- Scott Sehon
- Sydney Shoemaker
- Tyler Burge
- Wilhelm Dilthey
- William Whewell
American consciousness researchers and theorists
- Allen Newell
- Barry Kerzin
- Benjamin Libet
- Bernard Baars
- Catherine Havasi
- Christof Koch
- Daniel Dennett
- David Chalmers
- Edward Francis Kelly
- Elkhonon Goldberg
- George Armitage Miller
- George Lakoff
- Gerald Edelman
- Giulio Tononi
- Henry Stapp
- Hubert Dreyfus
- Jerry Fodor
- John C. Lilly
- John L. Pollock
- John Perry (philosopher)
- John Searle
- Joseph Bogen
- Joseph Levine (philosopher)
- Julian Jaynes
- Karl H. Pribram
- Marcus Raichle
- Mark Johnson (philosopher)
- Marvin Minsky
- Ned Block
- Owen Flanagan
- Roger Wolcott Sperry
- Ron McClamrock
- Ron Sun
- Sam Harris
- Shaun Gallagher
- Stuart Hameroff
- Sydney Shoemaker
- Thomas Nagel
- Tyler Burge
- Wendell Garner
- William James
American critics of postmodernism
- Adolph L. Reed Jr.
- Alan Sokal
- Alice Crary
- Alix Dobkin
- Barbara Ehrenreich
- Camille Paglia
- Catharine A. MacKinnon
- Christina Hoff Sommers
- Christopher Ferrara
- Daniel Dennett
- Denis Dutton
- Ellen Meiksins Wood
- Felix Bernstein (artist)
- Francis Fukuyama
- Frank Turek
- Frederick Crews
- Fredric Jameson
- George Will
- Gloria Steinem
- Hilton Kramer
- James A. Lindsay
- John Zerzan
- Marshall Berman
- Martha Nussbaum
- Melford Spiro
- Michiko Kakutani
- Noël Carroll
- Noam Chomsky
- Norah Vincent
- Noretta Koertge
- Norman Levitt
- Ophelia Benson
- Paul Boghossian
- Paul R. Gross
- Peter Boghossian
- R. C. Sproul
- Roger Kimball
- Roy D'Andrade
- Sam Harris
- Stephen Hicks
- Susan Faludi
- Thomas Nagel
- Victor Davis Hanson
- Vivek Chibber
- William H. Poteat
- William Irwin Thompson
- William Lane Craig
Critics of conspiracy theories
- Alan Moore
- Ben Goertzel
- Bill Maher
- Cass Sunstein
- Chip Berlet
- David Aaronovitch
- David Marr (journalist)
- Deborah Haarsma
- George Johnson (writer)
- Gerald Posner
- Hasan Piker
- Hugh Aynesworth
- Joe Nickell
- John C. McAdams
- Michael Barkun
- Michael Shermer
- Mick West
- Nick Mullen
- Nidhal Guessoum
- Noam Chomsky
- Phil Plait
- Rebecca Watson
- Richard Dawkins
- Richard Roeper
- Sam Harris
- Vincent Bugliosi
- Will Sommer
Jewish American atheism activists
- Bill Maher
- Eddie Tabash
- Ernestine Rose
- Jerry Coyne
- Leonard Peikoff
- Michael Newdow
- Phil Zuckerman
- Robyn Blumner
- Sam Harris
Moral realists
- C. Stephen Evans
- Charles Larmore
- Daniel N. Robinson
- David Enoch (philosopher)
- David O. Brink
- Derek Parfit
- Erik Wielenberg
- G. E. Moore
- Geoffrey Sayre-McCord
- Henry Sidgwick
- James Robert Brown
- John E. Hare
- John McDowell
- Matthew Kramer
- Michael A. Smith (philosopher)
- Mozi
- Peter Railton
- Philippa Foot
- Plato
- Richard Boyd
- Robert Audi
- Russ Shafer-Landau
- Sam Harris
- W. D. Ross
New Atheism
- Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Blasphemy Day
- Breaking the Spell (Dennett book)
- Christopher Hitchens
- Criticism of New Atheism
- Dan Barker
- Daniel Dennett
- Flying Spaghetti Monster
- God Is Not Great
- God: The Failed Hypothesis
- Godless (Barker book)
- Greta Christina
- James A. Lindsay
- Jerry Coyne
- Letter to a Christian Nation
- Manifesto of Evolutionary Humanism
- Michel Onfray
- New Atheism
- Out Campaign
- PZ Myers
- Peter Boghossian
- Pitchstone Publishing
- RationalWiki
- Reason Rally
- Rebecca Goldstein
- Regressive left
- Richard Dawkins
- Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
- Sam Harris
- TJ Kirk
- The Clergy Project
- The End of Faith
- The God Delusion
- The Portable Atheist
- The Root of All Evil?
- Victor J. Stenger
People associated with effective altruism
- Émile P. Torres
- Anders Sandberg
- Ben Delo
- Bruce Friedrich
- Cari Tuna
- Caroline Ellison
- David Pearce (philosopher)
- Derek Parfit
- Dustin Moskovitz
- Dylan Matthews
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Geoffrey Miller (psychologist)
- Hilary Greaves
- Holden Karnofsky
- Jacy Reese Anthis
- Jeff Sebo
- Julia Galef
- Kelsey Piper
- Liv Boeree
- Marcus Daniell
- Max Tegmark
- Michael Kremer
- Nick Bostrom
- Oscar Horta
- Peter Eckersley (computer scientist)
- Peter Singer
- Robin Hanson
- Sam Bankman-Fried
- Sam Harris
- Sergio Bergman
- Toby Ord
- William MacAskill
- Yew-Kwang Ng
Philosophers of love
- Alan H. Goldman
- Aristotle
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Bertrand Russell
- C. S. Lewis
- Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins
- Charles Fourier
- Denis Diderot
- Diotima of Mantinea
- Elizabeth Brake
- Emanuel Swedenborg
- Empedocles
- Erich Fromm
- Gilles Deleuze
- Graham M. Smith
- Harry Frankfurt
- Henry David Thoreau
- James Giles (philosopher)
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- John Shelby Spong
- Judah Leon Abravanel
- Karl Christian Friedrich Krause
- Karl Jaspers
- Kathleen Higgins
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Lorraine Smith Pangle
- Ludwig Klages
- Martin D'Arcy
- Max Scheler
- Max Stirner
- Michel Onfray
- Mozi
- Naftali Rothenberg
- Philip K. Dick
- Philippa Foot
- Plato
- Rudolf Otto
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Sam Harris
- Socrates
- Suzanne Lilar
- The Buddha
- Thiruvalluvar
- Troy Jollimore
- Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher)
- Vātsyāyana
- Yajnavalkya
Students of U Pandita
- Bhaddanta Āciṇṇa
- Joseph Goldstein (writer)
- Sam Harris
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