Dennett is referred to as one of the " Four Horsemen of New Atheism ", along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens.

Author Sam Harris has argued that we overestimate the relevance of many arguments against the science of morality, arguments he believes scientists happily and rightly disregard in other domains of science like physics.

Sam Harris argues that there are societally optimal " moral peaks " to discover. In modern times, many thinkers discussing the fact-value distinction and the Is-ought problem have settled on the idea that one cannot derive ought from is.

Although the Washington team endured long bouts of mediocrity ( immortalized in the 1955 Broadway musical Damn Yankees ), they had a period of prolonged success in the 1920s and 1930s, led by Hall-of-Famers Bucky Harris, Goose Goslin, Sam Rice, Heinie Manush, Joe Cronin, and above all Walter Johnson.

Proponents of this view, such as the author and neuroscientist Sam Harris, see morality as a budding science.

Among the musicians with whom he has played are Eddie Harris, Lee Konitz, Dave Liebman, Sam Rivers, Bob Mintzer, Terry Gibbs, Buddy DeFranco, Roscoe Mitchell, Evan Parker, Jay McShann, Herbie Mann, Randy Brecker, Jerry Goodman and Ramsey Lewis and many others.

Jonathan Macey, Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance and Securities Law, Yale Law School, Ph. D. honoris causa, 1996.

* August 21 – August 22 – Events at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, are sparked by a Federal Marshal surveillance team, resulting in the death of a Marshal, Sam Weaver and his dog and the next day the wounding of Randy Weaver, the death of his wife Vicki and the wounding of Kevin Harris.

In his book, The Moral Landscape, author and neuroscientist Sam Harris mentions some ways that determinism and modern scientific understanding might challenge the idea of a contra-causal free will.

It premiered on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on November 2, 1937, produced by Sam H. Harris, and transferred to the Music Box Theatre, and ran for 290 performances.

However, she refused to accept this and with the help of vocal and dance lessons ( most notably with Sam Harris, Angela Bacari ), which she still takes daily, managed to recover and returned to the stage in 2001 when asked by long-time friend Michael Jackson to perform at Madison Square Garden in New York City where she sang " Never Never Land " and the televised " You Are Not Alone " at the Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Special concert produced by soon to be husband David Gest.

Marker on the Harris County Annex 2 Building in Downtown Houston, indicating the site where Sam Houston lived from 1837 to 1838

Yurica has been followed in this usage by authors including journalist Chris Hedges, Marion Maddox, James Rudin, Sam Harris, and the group TheocracyWatch.

Sam Peckinpah's first two choices for the role of Deke Thornton were Richard Harris ( who had co-starred in Major Dundee ) and Brian Keith ( who had worked with Peckinpah on The Westerner ( 1960 ) and The Deadly Companions ( 1961 )).

In partnership with another struggling writer, Sam Harris, he finally interests a producer and they are on the road to success.

* Richard Whorf as Sam Harris

Tarkington Bayou begins in the Sam Houston National Forest in San Jacinto County, working its way south through Northeast and east Liberty County and joining other feeders, before traveling into Harris County and emptying into Galveston Bay.

Writer Sam Harris has also argued that ethics could be objectively grounded in an understanding of neuroscience.

* Sam Harris

Harris followed this with a leading role in the Italian film, Michelangelo Antonioni's Il deserto rosso ( 1964 ), and he also won notice for his role in Sam Peckinpah's Major Dundee ( 1965 ), as an Irish immigrant who became a Confederate cavalryman during the Civil War.

* In Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films, Aunt May was played by Rosemary Harris as a housewife who is widowed by the events of the first film.

* Sam Harris, ( b. 1961 )-actor and singer

Neuroscientist and best-selling author Sam Harris, noted mainly for his contribution to the New Atheism movement, criticized CAIR by doubting their legitimacy saying CAIR is " an Islamist public relations firm posing as a civil-rights lobby ".

* Sam Cooke replaces R. H. Harris as lead singer of The Soul Stirrers.

He also wrote the comic strips Abbie an ' Slats and Long Sam.

Historian Scott Eyman wrote, " As the film ended and applause grew with the houselights, Sam Goldwyn's wife Frances looked around at the celebrities in the crowd.

Sam Hui wrote Cantopop songs using mahjong as their themes, and Hong Kong movies have often included scenes of mahjong games.

Guralnick wrote the script for A & E's documentary, Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ' n ' Roll, narrated by Billy Bob Thornton, and he also scripted Sam Cooke-Legend, narrated by Jeffrey Wright.

Sam Phillips remembered being much more impressed with Orbison's mastery of the guitar than his voice ; a ballad Orbison wrote called " The Clown " was met with lukewarm appreciation at best.

With his brother Ivan Raimi ( and crediting himself as Celia Abrams ), Sam Raimi also wrote Easy Wheels ( 1989 ), a parody of the Outlaw biker film genre.

The convention is named for Sam Stayman, who wrote the first published description in 1945, but its inventors were two other players: the British expert Jack Marx in 1939, who published it only in 1946, and Stayman's regular partner George Rapée in 1945.

In 1956, Sam Wells wrote that " Unitarians and Universalists are considering merger which would have total U. S. membership of 160, 000 ( 500, 000 in world )".

* Sam Llewellyn wrote two children's books set in the sinking Lyonesse, with original Celtic names for the cast of Arthurian legend: Lyonesse: The Well Between The Worlds ( 2009 ) and Lyonesse: Dark Solstice ( 2010 ).

Sousa wrote 136 marches, published by the Sam Fox Publishing Company beginning in 1917 and continuing until his death.

In Slate, Sam Anderson wrote in the article " And Now for Something Completely Deficient " that though Idle " has earned a spot in Comedy Heaven for his Python days ... his jokey ' exposure ' of his own exploitation ( he has called tours ' Eric Idle Exploits Monty Python ' and ' The Greedy Bastard Tour ') is more irritating than funny.

Sam Varshavchik, the author of the Courier Mail Server and other software, wrote an extension to the Maildir format called Maildir ++ to support subfolders and mail quotas.

Although it was acknowledged as a continuation of their old work, albeit with an increased use of synthesisers, Sam Spies of the Richmond Times-Dispatch noted that " the experiments in style that made Cake fun to listen to have all but disappeared from ' Pressure Chief ' ... What's left is mostly uninspired, so-called alternative rock ", and Graeme Hammond of the Sunday Herald Sun wrote that " the melodies are listless, the album bereft of anything with the verve of Short Skirt / Long Jacket or Comfort Eagle ".

He wrote " If you wanted to sum up the relative position of Britain and America in this century – the ebbing away of the pink areas of the map, the fading of national self-confidence as Uncle Sam proceeded to colonise the globe with fizzy drinks and Hollywood – you could do it like this: they had Star Trek, we had Blake's 7 ... No ' boldly going ' here: instead, we got the boot stamping on a human face which George Orwell offered as a vision of humanity's future in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Sam Adams, critic for the Philadelphia City Paper, wrote, " The codes of the time prevented Lewis from being explicit about the extent to which their fast-blooming romance is fueled by their mutual love of weaponry ( Arthur Penn would rip off the covers in Bonnie and Clyde, which owes Gun Crazy a substantial debt ), but when Cummins ' six-gun dangles provocatively as she gasses up their jalopy, it's clear what really fills their collective tank.

At age fourteen years, using the I IV V chord progression common to country songs of the day, he wrote what came to be known around Jackson as " Let Me Take You To the Movie, Magg " ( the song would convince Sam Phillips to sign Perkins to his Sun Records label ).

A former Pastor Mark R. Watkinson felt that the civil war was going to leave the country with a bad name, " brother fighting brother in a civil war ", and wrote a letter to then Sam Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, suggesting " God, Liberty, Law ," be put on the coins.

He wrote music for theater, such as plays written by Sam Shepard, presented at La Mama E. T. C.

In its obituary of Holloway, The Times wrote that Sam and Albert " became part of English folklore during the 1930s, and they remained so during the Second World War.

Dan Curtis directed it, and Sam Hall and Gordon Russell wrote the screenplay.

When Sam & Dave arrived at Stax, they worked with producer & engineer Jim Stewart and songwriters including the MGs ' guitarist Steve Cropper, who wrote or co-wrote four of their first eight recordings.

The New York Times wrote that " I Am Sam is a good movie, and its intentions are unimpeachable.

" Variety wrote: " Undone by its best intentions, I Am Sam is an especially insipid example of the Hollywood message movie.