Suzanne O’Sullivan Suzanne O’Sullivan has been a consultant in neurology since 2004, first working at The Royal London Hospital and now as a consultant in clinical neurophysiology and neurology at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, and for a specialist unit based at the Epilepsy Society. She studied medicine at Trinity College...

Donald D. Hoffman Massimo Pigliucci is a Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York-Lehman College. His research is concerned with philosophy of science, the relationship between science and philosophy, and the relationship between science and religion. He received a Doctorate in Genetics from the University of Ferrara in Italy, a PhD in...

Barbara J. Grosz Barbara J. Grosz is the Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences at Harvard University. From 2007-2011 Grosz served as interim dean and then dean of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and from 2001-2007 she was the Institute’s first dean of science, designing and building its science program. She currently serves on the...

Roger Antonsen Roger Antonsen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics in the research group Logic and Intelligent Data (LogID) at the University of Oslo, and is also currently a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley, California. He is a logician, mathematician, computer scientist, researcher, author, lecturer, and public speaker who specializes in logical...

Margaret Wertheim Margaret Wertheim is a science writer, curator, and artist whose work focuses on relations between science and the wider cultural landscape. She is the author of six books including Pythagoras’ Trousers, a history of physics and religion; The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace, a history of scientific concepts of space; and Physics on the Fringe, a ground-breaking...

S. James Gates Jr., PhD S. James Gates Jr. is the Ford Foundation Professor of Physics at Brown University. He was previously at the University of Maryland for several decades, where he was named a Distinguished University Professor, University System of Maryland Regents Professor, and John S. Toll Professor of Physics. Professor Gates is known...

Massimo Pigliucci, PhD Massimo Pigliucci is a Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York-Lehman College. His research is concerned with philosophy of science, the relationship between science and philosophy, and the relationship between science and religion. He received a Doctorate in Genetics from the University of Ferrara in Italy, a PhD in...

Lucianne Walkowicz is an Astronomer at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. She studies stellar magnetic activity and how stars influence a planet’s suitability as a host for alien life. Walkowicz holds a B.S. in Physics from Johns Hopkins University, a M.S. and Ph.D. from University of Washington. She was the Kepler Fellow at UC Berkeley,...

Ard Louis is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford, where he leads an interdisciplinary research group studying problems on the border between chemistry, physics and biology, and is also director of graduate studies in theoretical physics. From 2002 to 2010 he was a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University...

Paul Davies is an internationally acclaimed physicist, cosmologist, and astrobiologist at Arizona State University, where he runs the pioneering Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. He also chairs the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Post-Detection Taskgroup, so that if SETI succeeds in finding intelligent life, he will be among the first to know. The asteroid...

Simon Conway Morris is professor of evolutionary palaeobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Dr. Morris received his PhD in 1976 from the University of Cambridge. In 1979 he was appointed lecturer in the Department of Earth Sciences at Open University. Four years later Dr Morris was appointed lecturer in...

Ian Tattersall is Curator Emeritus of Human Origins, Division of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History, and Professor Emeritus, Richard Gilder Graduate School. Dr. Tattersall has concentrated his research over the past quarter-century on the analysis of the human fossil record and the study of the ecology and systematics of the lemurs of...

Melanie Chang is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Portland State University. Dr. Chang completed a dual PhD in physical anthropology and ecology/evolutionary biology at the University of Pennsylvania in 2005, and a postdoctoral fellowship in behavioral genetics at UCSF in 2008. Her primary interests include the systematics and phylogeny of Middle Pleistocene Homo, particularly the…. Read...

Michael Ruse is the Lucyle T. Wekmeister Professor and Director of the History and Philosophy of Science Program at Florida State University. Before coming to Florida State in 2000, Michael taught at the University of Guelph for 35 years. He received his B.A. from the University of Bristol in 1962, his M.A. from McMaster University...

Emily Esfahani Smith is an instructor in positive psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a columnist for The New Criterion, as well as an editor at the Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, where she manages the Ben Franklin Circles project: a collaboration with the 92nd Street Y and Citizen University to build meaning...

Jay Lombard is currently the Chief Scientific Officer at Genomind, and is in private practice as the Clinical Director of Neuroscience at LifeSpan Medicine. Previously, Dr. Lombard was Chief of Neurology at both Westchester Square Medical Center and Bronx Lebanon Hospital, and was a clinical assistant professor at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Albert Einstein...

Efrat Ginot, PhD is a graduate of the NYU Postdoctoral Program for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Dr. Ginot is currently an instructor at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and a supervisor at the Fifth Avenue Center For Counseling and Psychotherapy. She also has a private practice in New York City. Dr. Ginot’s work focuses on enhancing...

Mark Solms, PhD is a psychoanalyst and a professor in neuropsychology. He holds the Chair of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital (Departments of Psychology and Neurology) and is the President of the South African Psychoanalytical Association. He is also Research Chair of the International Psychoanalytical…. Read More

Sonu Shamdasani, PhD is a London-based author, editor, and professor at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London WIHM/UCL, and is Director of the UCL Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines. Shamdasani holds a BA from Bristol University, followed by MSc, History of Science and Medicine, University College...

Siri Hustvedt, PhD is Lecturer in Psychiatry at the Dewitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry, Weill Medical School of Cornell University. She has a PhD in English literature from Columbia University, and is a novelist and essayist whose works repeatedly pose questions about the nature of identity, selfhood and perception. She has also...

Rubin Naiman, PhD is a clinical psychologist specializing in integrative sleep and dream medicine. He is the sleep and dream specialist and clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of Arizona’s world-renowned Center for Integrative Medicine, directed by Dr. Andrew Weil. Dr. Naiman is the founder and director of Circadian Health Associates, an organization...

Kelly Bulkeley, PhD is a Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He is also director of the Sleep and Dream Database (SDDb), a digital archive and search engine designed to promote scientific dream research He earned a doctorate in Religion and Psychological Studies from the University of Chicago Divinity School, an...

Deirdre Leigh Barrett, PhD is a psychologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School’s Behavioral Medicine Program. She is a Past President of both the International Association for the Study of Dreams and the American Psychological Association’s Div. 30, The Society for Psychological Hypnosis. Dr. Barrett has written four books: Supernormal Stimuli, Waistland, The Committee...

George Makari, MD is Director of the DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry, a Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and an Adjunct Professor at both Rockefeller University and the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He attended Brown University and received his BA in 1982; then received his...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Priyamvada Natarajan, PhD is Professor in the Departments of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University. She is a theoretical astrophysicist whose research involves mapping the detailed distribution of dark matter in the universe exploiting the bending of light en-route to us from distant galaxies. In addition to her academic position at Yale, she also currently...

Katherine Freese, PhD is the George E. Uhlenbeck Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan. Starting in September 2014 she is Director of Nordita, the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics located in Stockholm. She works on a wide range of topics in theoretical cosmology and astroparticle physics. She has been working to identify the...

David Z. Albert, PhD is Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy and Director of the M.A. Program in The Philosophical Foundations of Physics at Columbia University. He received his B.S. in physics from Columbia College and his doctorate in theoretical physics from The Rockefeller University. Professor Albert is the author of Time and Chance and...

Tim Maudlin, PhD is Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He received his BA in Physics and Philosophy from Yale and his PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Pittsburgh. His work centers on the interpretation of physical theory: how the mathematical structures used in physics may be understood as...

David Kaiser, PhD is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and Department Head of MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and also a member of MIT’s Department of Physics. His books include Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics, and How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the...

Adam Frank, PhD is a physicist, astronomer and writer, and is currently a professor of Astrophysics at the University of Rochester. His research focuses on computational astrophysics with an emphasis on star formation and late stages of stellar evolution. His popular writing has focused on issues of science it its cultural context including issues of...

Max Tegmark, PhD is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is the scientific director of the Foundational Questions Institute. He graduated from the Stockholm School of Economics and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and later received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Known as “Mad Max” for his...

Marcelo Gleiser, PhD is a world-renowned theoretical physicist and award-winning author, and is currently the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and a professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College. He obtained his PhD from King’s College London in 1986 and received the 1994 Presidential Faculty Fellows Award from the White House. He is a...

Neil Turok, PhD is one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists. Formerly Professor of Physics at Princeton and Chair of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge, he is currently Director and Niels Bohr Chair at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. Neil’s research focuses on developing fundamental theories of cosmology and new observational tests… Read...

Mavrothi Kontanis is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer and teacher born and raised in the US, but with roots in Halkidiki, Greece. Mavrothi’s main instrument is the oud, and he has studied and performed with many of the world’s top players. His passion for performing is matched by his love of teaching and composing music.

Amir ElSaffar is an Iraqi-American trumpeter, santur player, vocalist, and composer who has mastered disparate musical styles, combining aspects of Middle Eastern music with American jazz. ElSaffar has created new techniques to play microtones and ornaments that are idiomatic to Arabic music but not typically heard on the trumpet.

Emmanuel H. During has developed more than just an individual style or touch over the past 15 years; he sees music as a language that transcends passing cultures and trends. An exceptionally rich upbringing exposed him to the musical greats while also introducing him to the violin, guitar, lute and various percussion instruments.

Keyvan Chemirani thinks of Iranian percussion as a syntax which allows him to invest in the music of the whole world, and to realize masterpieces. This is the difficult yet fascinating road that he follows in order to transform, bit by bit, the Persian musical inheritance received through his father, Djamchid Chemirani.

Sylvain Barou is considered as one of the best flute players of his generation. Playing mainly Irish and Breton traditional music, Sylvain has been part of some of the most exciting projects of the genre. He has been seen playing at many of the major festivals and venues, and travels the world with the Irish group Guidewires.

Lani Leary, PhD, specializes in work with chronically ill, dying, and bereaved clients. She has worked for more than 25 years as a psychotherapist in private practice, as a chaplain in the intensive care unit of a hospital, and as a counselor in 8 hospices across the country. She served as the director of mental...

Allan Kellehear, PhD, is Professor of Community Health, School of Health and Education, Middlesex University. He was formerly Professor of Palliative Care at LaTrobe University in Australia (1998 – 2006), Professor of Sociology at the University of Bath in England (2006 – 2011), and Professor in the Department of Community … Read More

Kevin Nelson, MD is Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Kentucky. He directs the Neuromuscular clinical neurophysiology laboratory and cares for patients with Neuromuscular disease. As Director of Medical Affairs within the Chief Medical Office, Dr. Nelson is responsible for the credentialing and … Read More

Mary C. Neal, MD, is a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon, former Director of Spine Surgery at the University of Southern California, and a founding partner of Orthopaedic Associates of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. She received her medical degree from the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine … Read More

Peter Fenwick is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London, and associated with the Mental Health Group at the University of Southampton. He is also Consultant Neuropsychiatrist to the Epilepsy Unit at the Maudsley Hospital and at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, and holds a visiting professorship … Read More

Mildred Z. Solomon, EdD, is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Hastings Center. She is also Clinical Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School, where she directs the school’s Fellowship in Medical Ethics. Before taking the helm of The Hastings Center, Dr. Solomon was Senior Director of Implementation … Read More

Dr. Sam Shemie is a physician in the Division of Pediatric Critical Care, and Medical Director, Extracorporeal Life Support Program at Montreal Children’s Hospital, McGill University Health Centre. He is also Professor of Pediatrics, McGill University and holds the Bertram Loeb Chair in Organ and Tissue Donation … Read More

Barbara Coombs Lee is President of Compassion & Choices, a nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding and protecting the rights of the terminally ill. She practiced as a nurse and physician assistant for 25 years before beginning a career in law and health policy. Since then she has devoted her professional life to … Read More

Stephan A. Mayer, MD, is Professor of Neurology and Neurological Surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in New York City, and is Director of the Neurological Intensive Care Unit at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Mayer is considered a world leader in the field of neurological … Read More

Christopher P. Comfort, MD, as Medical Director of Calvary Hospital, develops, coordinates, and facilitates clinical services for palliative and end-of-life care. Dr. Comfort is Board-certified in internal medicine and geriatrics and practiced in the New York area for 15 years, prior to joining the Calvary staff in 1999. Read More

Lance B. Becker, MD, is Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He was the founder and Director of the Emergency Resuscitation Center at the University of Chicago in Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, an interdisciplinary team of investigators focused on understanding … Read More

Nicholas D. Schiff, MD Nicholas D. Schiff, MD, is Director of the Laboratory of Cognitive Neuromodulation at Weill Cornell Medical College where he conducts research examining neurophysiological mechanisms of arousal and forebrain integration as well as clinical studies of the pathophysiology of impaired consciousness. His research bridges basic neuroscience and clinical investigative studies of the...

André Aciman, PhD André Aciman was born in Alexandria, Egypt and is an American memoirist, essayist, novelist, and scholar of seventeenth-century literature. is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. He is currently chair of the PhD Program in Comparative Literature and founder and director of...

Joseph LeDoux, PhD Joseph LeDoux is a University Professor at NYU in the Center for Neural Science, and he directs the Emotional Brain Institute of the Nathan Kline Institute. His work has focused on the study of the neural basis of emotions, especially fear and anxiety. His work has elaborated in detail how the brain...

Daniel Schacter, PhD Daniel L. Schacter is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. Schacter’s research explores the relation between conscious and unconscious forms of memory, the nature of memory distortions, how individuals use memory to imagine possible future events, as well as the effects of aging on memory. Professor Schacter has...

Alison Winter, PhD Alison Winter is a historian specializing in the history of the human sciences. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, and was on the faculty at California Institute of Technology before moving to the University of Chicago. Professor Winter’s first book, Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain on the...

Jamshed Bharucha, PhD Jamshed Bharucha is the twelfth President of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Prior to this position, he served in academic leadership positions at Dartmouth College and Tufts University. A 1978 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Vassar College, where he majored in biopsychology, President Bharucha received an M.A....

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Charles Limb, MD Charles Limb is an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, where he specializes in neurotology and skull base surgery. He is also a faculty member at the Peabody Conservatory of Music. He received his undergraduate degree at Harvard University, medical degree...

Concetta Tomaino, DA Concetta Tomaino is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function and Senior Vice President for Music Therapy at Beth Abraham Family of Health Services. She received the Masters and Doctor of Arts in Music Therapy from New York University. Dr. Tomaino is on the faculty of...

Richard Davidson, PhD Richard Davidson is William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There, he is the Director of the Waisman Brain Imaging Lab and the Lab for Affective Neuroscience, and the Founder and Chair and the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds. He has published more than 290...

Amishi Jha, PhD Amishi Jha is associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Miami, prior to which she was an Assistant Professor at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania. She received her Ph.D. from University of California-Davis in 1998, and received her post-doctoral training in the Brain Imaging and Analysis Center at...

Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD Jon Kabat-Zinn is founding Executive Director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is also the founding director of its renowned Stress Reduction Clinic and Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He teaches mindfulness and...

Jeffrey J. Kripal, PhD, is the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University, where he chaired the Department of Religious Studies for nine years and helped create the GEM Program, a doctoral concentration in the study of Gnosticism, Esotericism, and Mysticism that is the largest program of its kind… Read...

Jim Holt is an American philosopher, author and essayist. He has contributed to The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The American Scholar, and Slate. Holt received his B.A. and M.A. in mathematics from the University of Virginia,...

Laurie Santos, PhD Laurie Santos is Associate Professor of Psychology at Yale University and the director of The Comparative Cognition Laboratory. She received her BA in Psychology and Biology and her PhD in Psychology from Harvard University. Her research explores the evolutionary origins of human cognition by studying the cognitive capacities of non-human primates. She...

Daniel Kahneman, PhD, Prof. Em. Daniel Kahneman is a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is also Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs Emeritus at the Woodrow Wilson School, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Princeton University, and a fellow of the Center for Rationality at...

Alex Doman Alex Doman is an author and producer whose work is based on music effects research and principles of human development and neuroplasticity focusing on improving academic, cognitive, and communication abilities. He is founder and CEO of Advanced Brain Technologies, a leading provider of products that improve brain function with solutions for consumers, schools,...

Don Campbell, Ph.D. Don Campbell is a leading lecturer and consultant to healthcare organizations as well as corporations and parenting groups. He works with audiences of symphony orchestras on how music can affect learning, health, and other aspects of our lives. He is Acoustic and Musical Director of Aesthetic Audio Systems, an innovative company that...

Timothy Wilson, PhD Timothy D. Wilson is the Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia and a researcher of positive psychology and affective forecasting. His research has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation. In 2001 he received an All-University...

Roy Baumeister, PhD Roy Baumeister is Francis Eppes Professor of Psychology and head of the social psychology graduate program at Florida State University. He earned his A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton University and his M.A. from Duke University. He returned to Princeton University with his mentor Edward E. Jones and earned his Ph.D. from...

Jerrold Seigel, PhD Jerrold Seigel is William R. Kenan Professor of History emeritus at NYU, where he has taught since 1988, and served as chair of the History Department from 1996-1999. Before arriving at NYU he taught for twenty-five years at Princeton. His research concerns the themes of social and cultural theory, the history of...

Frances Kamm, PhD Frances M. Kamm is Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and Professor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences at Harvard. She is the author of Morality, Mortality: Volume I: Death and Whom to Save from It ;...

David A. Jopling, DPhil David A. Jopling is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at York University, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His research interests include the philosophy of psychology and psychiatry, early modern philosophy, and cognitive science. He has published articles on the concept of self, self-knowledge, phenomenology, and cognitive science. His books include:...

Alex Voorhoeve, PhD Alex Voorhoeve is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the London School of Economics. In 2008-09 he was a Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Ethics. He is currently pursuing two research projects. The first, Liberal Egalitarianism, offers an interpretation and defense of three liberal egalitarian ideals: distributional equality, responsibility, and neutrality....

V. V. Raman, PhD V. V. Raman is Emeritus Professor of Physics and Humanities at the Rochester Institute of Technology; Senior Fellow, Metanexus Institute. Professor Raman received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Calcutta before doing his doctoral work on the foundations of quantum mechanics at the University...

Shaun Gallagher, PhD Shaun Gallagher is Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences at The University of Central Florida, where he is also a member of the Senior Research Faculty at IST, a research institute focused on simulation and modeling. He serves on the graduate faculty of UCF’s Text and Technology Program, and on the Humanities...

Simon Critchley, PhD Simon Critchley is Chair and Professor of philosophy at The New School for Social Research. Critchley studied philosophy at the University of Essex (BA 1985, PhD 1988,) and at the University of Nice (M.Phil. 1987). Critchley was appointed a lecturer in philosophy at Essex in 1989, becoming reader in philosophy in 1995,...

Nancey Murphy Nancey Murphy is Professor of Christian Philosophy at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA. She received her B.A. from Creighton University (philosophy and psychology) in 1973, a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley (philosophy of science) in 1980, and in 1987 received a Th.D. from the Graduate Theological Union (theology). Her research interests focus on the...

Kenneth R. Miller Kenneth R. Miller is Professor of Biology at Brown University. He earned his Ph.D. in biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1974. From 1974 to 1980, he taught at Harvard University. His research work on cell membrane structure and function has produced more than 50 scientific papers and reviews...

John F. Haught John F. Haught is Senior Fellow, Science & Religion, Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University. He was formerly Professor in the Department of Theology at Georgetown University (1970-2005) and Chair (1990-95). His area of specialization is systematic theology, with a particular interest in issues pertaining to science, cosmology, evolution, ecology, and religion. Haught...

Lisa Miller Lisa Miller is a senior editor at Newsweek. She oversees all of the magazine’s religion coverage and writes the weekly “Belief Watch column. She also helped launch the Washington Post’s “OnFaith,” an online global conversation about religion and faith moderated by Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham and Washington Post writer Sally Quinn. She edited...

Norbert Wiley , PhD Norbert Wiley is professor emeritus of Sociology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, and was Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkley. He is a prize-winning sociologist who has published on both the history and systematics of theory. In his book The Semiotic Self (University of Chicago, 1994) Wiley offered...