Project Reason

The Reason Project was a U.S. charitable (501(c)3) foundation that was officially devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society. When it closed Sam Harris sent an e-mail out explaining that the remaining funds would go to The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, The AHA Foundation, and The Quilliam Foundation.

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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 - Former 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 - Former member of the Dutch parliament; author of The Caged Virgin and the New York Times best selling memoir Infidel
 * Christopher Hitchens - author, journalist, and literary critic; author of God Is Not Great
 * 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 ; Nobel laureate in Physics 1979