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Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores important and controversial questions about the human mind, society, and current events. Sam Harris is the author of five New York Times bestsellers. His books include The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, Waking Up, and Islam and the Future of Tolerance (with Maajid Nawaz). The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. His writing and public lectures cover a wide range of topics—neuroscience, moral philosophy, religion, meditation practice, human violence, rationality—but generally focus on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live. Harris's work has been published in more than 20 languages and has been discussed in The New York Times, Time, Scientific American, Nature, Newsweek, Rolling 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, and elsewhere. Sam Harris received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.

Episodes

This podcast episode explores the career of Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX, and the impact of FTX's collapse on the effective altruism movement. It delves into the motivations behind Bankman-Fried's actions, the factors that contributed to FTX's downfall, and the consequences for the EA community. The episode di...

#360 - We Really Don’t Have Free Will?

27 Mar 2024

2h 0m

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This podcast episode explores the topic of free will and its implications on various aspects of life, such as ethics, criminal justice, and societal norms. The guest speaker, Robert Sapolsky, provides a scientific perspective on free will, arguing against the existence of libertarian free will and discussing the concep...

#359 - Getting Used to It

19 Mar 2024

1h 5m

#358 - The War in Ukraine

11 Mar 2024

1h 6m

#357 - America & World Order

04 Mar 2024

1h 28m

#356 - Islam & Freedom

28 Feb 2024

1h 34m

#355 - A Falling World

21 Feb 2024

1h 38m

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This podcast episode explores the alarming behavior of the Republican Party, the end of the Bretton Woods system, the changing posture of the U.S. military, the potential responses to Iran's aggression, Israel's security strategy, Europe's demographic crisis, the impact of the demographic pyramid on the economy, Russia...