The Reason Project
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The Reason Project is a U.S. charitable (501(c)3) foundation devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society.
The project will draw on the talents of prominent and creative thinkers from a wide range of disciplines — science, law, literature, entertainment, information technology, etc. — to encourage critical thinking and wise public policy. It will convene conferences, produce films, sponsor scientific research and opinion polls, award grants to other non-profit organizations, and offer material support to religious dissidents and public intellectuals — with the purpose of eroding the influence of dogmatism, superstition and bigotry in the world.[1]
[edit] Advisory Board
The project has been spearheaded by philosopher, neuroscientist, and author Sam Harris, and has so far succeeded in attracting the following to its advisory board:
- Clifford S. Asness - Managing and Founding Principal of AQR Capital Management
- Peter Atkins - Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford
- Jerry Coyne - Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago
- Richard Dawkins - Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford
- Daniel C. Dennett - Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University
- Brent Forrester - Emmy Award-winning television writer
- Rebecca Goldstein - philosopher and novelist
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali - author of The Caged Virgin and the New York Times best selling memoir Infidel
- Christopher Hitchens - author, journalist, and literary critic
- Harold Kroto - Chairman of the Board of the Vega Science Trust
- Bill Maher- Comedian, Actor, Host of "Real Time With Bill Maher"
- Ian McEwan - award-winning novelist
- Steven Pinker - Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University
- Salman Rushdie - Booker Prize-winning author
- Lee M. Silver Professor at Princeton University in the Department of Molecular Biology
- Ibn Warraq - senior research fellow at the Center for Inquiry specializing in Koranic criticism
- Steven Weinberg - Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin[2]
