Confronting Mortality:
Faith and Meaning across Cultures

Heather Berlin is a cognitive neuroscientist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. She received her PhD from the University of Oxford and MPH from Harvard University. She explores the complex interactions of the human brain and mind with the goal of contributing to improved treatment and prevention of impulsive and compulsive... Read More

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, where she is director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory. Barrett received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada, and completed a Clinical Internship at the University of Manitoba Medical School. Dr. Barrett's research focuses on the nature of emotion from... Read More

Valerie Tiberius is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, an institution she has been affiliated with since 1998. Tiberius received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Toronto, before going on to receive a master's and doctorate in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her doctoral thesis was titled Deliberation About the Good.... Read More

Christian Miller is Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. He holds a B.A. in philosophy from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. His main areas of research are meta-ethics, moral psychology, moral character, action theory, and philosophy of religion. He is the president of the North Carolina Philosophical Society, and Director of The Character... Read More

Philip Kitcher is John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. He specializes in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of literature, and, more recently, pragmatism. Prior to teaching at Columbia, Kitcher taught at the University of Vermont, Vassar College, the University of Minnesota, the University of Michigan... Read More

Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University. He has been a college professor since 1979, also teaching at Occidental College, Glendale College, and Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Shermer received his B.A. in psychology from Pepperdine University, his M.A. in experimental psychology... Read More

Barry Schwartz is the Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action at Swarthmore College, where he has been teaching for over 40 years. He received his B.A. from New York University and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include decision making, the creation of values, the interaction of morality and self-interest, work satisfaction, the role of... Read More

Darrin M. McMahon is a historian, author, and Professor of History at Dartmouth College. He was formerly the Ben Weider Professor and Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University. McMahon was educated at the University of California, Berkeley and Yale, where he received his PhD. Before his current professorship, McMahon held post-doctoral fellowships at the Society... Read More

Kim K. Azzarelli is a business, philanthropic, and legal advisor focused on advancing women and girls. Together with Ambassador Melanne Verveer, Ms. Azzarelli is a co-founder of Seneca Women. She is Chair and Co-founder of Cornell Law School’s Avon Global Center for Women and Justice, and a Partner at Seneca Point Global. Prior to her work with Seneca, Ms. Azzarelli served as Senior Vice President... Read More