Raymond Martin, PhD Raymond Martin, Philosophy Department chair at Union College, holds a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and was a professor and director of graduate studies in the Philosophy Department at the University of Maryland for many years before joining Union in 2002. The author and editor of several books, including Self-Concern: An...

Gerald Izenberg, PhD Gerald N. Izenberg is a professor of history at Washington University. Izenberg joined Washington University in 1976, and became a professor in 1991. He also helped create the Program in Literature and History and co-directed it from 1977 to 2004. He received a bachelor’s degree from University College, University of Toronto in...

Robert Hanna, PhD Robert Hanna is a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale in 1989, and his honours B.A. in philosophy from the University of Toronto. His areas of research and specialization include Kant, History of Analytic Philosophy, Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Mind, Cognition...

Owen Flanagan, PhD Owen Flanagan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. He also holds appointments in Psychology and Neurobiology and is a Faculty Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience. In 1998, he was recipient of the Romanell National Phi Beta Kappa award, given annually to one American philosopher for distinguished contributions to philosophy...

Paul Bloom, PhD Paul Bloom is a professor of psychology at Yale University. His research explores how children and adults understand the physical and social world, with special focus on morality, religion, fiction, and art. He has won numerous awards for his research and teaching. He is past-president of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology,...

Steve Paulson Steven Paulson is the executive producer and an interviewer for To the Best of Our Knowledge, a radio program produced at Wisconsin Public Radio and syndicated nationally by Public Radio International and Sirius Satellite Radio. The program won the George Foster Peabody Award in 2005. He has also received awards from the Northwest...

Krista Tippett Krista Tippett is a journalist, former diplomat, and Peabody-award-winning broadcaster. As the creator and host of public radio’s Being (formerly Speaking of Faith ), she has innovated a new model of intelligent, in-depth conversation about religion, ethics and large questions of meaning in every aspect of life. The program is heard on over...

Evan Thompson, PhD Evan Thompson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His areas of research are cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and phenomenology. He is the author of Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind (Harvard University Press, 2007); co-author of The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience...

Thomas Metzinger, PhD Thomas Metzinger is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and an Adjunct Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Study. He recently finished a prestigious Fellowship at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study, is past president of the German Cognitive Science Society and currently is president of the Association...

Pim van Lommel, MD Pim van Lommel, MD was born in 1943, graduated in 1971 at the University of Utrecht, and finished his specialization in cardiology in 1976. He worked from 1977-2003 as a cardiologist in Hospital Rijnstate, an 800 bed Teaching Hospital in Arnhem, the Netherlands, and is now conducting full-time research on the...

David Chalmers, PhD David Chalmers is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University and also Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He is best known for his work on consciousness, especially for his formulation of the “hard problem” of consciousness and his arguments against materialism....

William D. Casebeer, Ph.D. Dr. Casebeer is a career intelligence analyst and Lieutenant Colonel in the US Air Force. He holds degrees in political science from the US Air Force Academy (BS), philosophy from the University of Arizona (MA), national security studies from the Naval Postgraduate School (MA), and a joint PhD in cognitive science...

Donald W. Pfaff, Ph.D. As head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior at Rockefeller University, Dr. Pfaff uses neuroanatomical, neurochemical and neurophysiological methods to study the cellular mechanisms by which the brain controls behavior. His research has focused on steroid hormone effects on nerve cells as they direct natural, instinctive behaviors, as well as...

Farhad Mechkat Farhad Mechkat is a critically acclaimed composer, conductor, and musical virtuoso who began his musical studies at the Geneva Conservatory of Music. After graduating from the Mannes College of Music in New York, he spent 3 years studying with Toscanini’s disciple, Franco Ferrara in Rome and Sienna. He then returned to New York...

Bernard Gert, Ph.D. Dr. Bernard Gert is currently the Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at Dartmouth College, and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School. In addition to being awarded numerous fellowships, he has been the recipient of two Fulbright Awards, and in 2006 received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society...

Martha J. Farah, Ph.D. Dr. Martha Farah is currently Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences and Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, where she has been teaching since 1992. Farah has undergraduate degrees in Metallurgy and Philosophy from MIT, and a doctorate in Psychology from Harvard University. She...

Maxwell R. Bennett, Ph.D. Dr. Bennett is Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Sydney, and Scientific Director of the Brain & Mind Research Institute and holds a University Chair awarded for research ‘recognized internationally as of exceptional distinction’. He graduated in Electrical Engineering and did his doctoral research in Zoology at Melbourne University before...

Leili Anvar, Ph.D. Dr. Leili Anvar is Professor in Persian Language and Literature at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris, where she is also the Head of the Iranian Languages Department. She holds a chronicle dedicated to literature and spirituality in the magazine Le monde des religions and co-hosts a weekly...

Parashkev Nachev, Ph.D. Dr. Parashkev Nachev is an Honorary Lecturer at the Institute of Neurology at University College London, and an Honorary Clinical Lecturer in the Division of Neurosciences and Mental Health at Imperial College London. He is also a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Academic Clinical Fellow. Professor Nachev was educated at the...

Hanna Pickard, Ph.D. Hanna Pickard is a philosopher of mind and psychiatry at All Souls College, Oxford; and a therapist at the Complex Needs Service, a NHS Therapeutic Community for people with Personality Disorder in Oxford. She has published articles on the emotions and other minds, body awareness and action, and the nature of mental...

Ian Phillips, Ph.D. Ian Phillips is a Philosopher and Prize Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University. He works mainly in Philosophy of Mind. From 2005-2008, he was a doctoral student at the Department of Philosophy, UCL, before which he read for the B.Phil. at Magdalen College, Oxford. This summer he leads a research seminar...

John Hyman, Ph.D. John Hyman, Ph.D., is currently a Professor of Aesthetics and Senior Tutor at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford. Between 1984 and 1988 Dr. Hyman held a North Senior Scholarship at St. John’s College, Oxford, a Post-doctoral Research Fellowship at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem and a Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity College,...

Peter Hacker, Ph.D. Professor P.M.S. Hacker is currently Emeritus Research Fellow at Oxford University’s St. John’s College, where he had been a fellow from 1966-2006. His visiting positions at other universities include: Visiting Professor at Swarthmore College in 1973 and 1986, Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan in 1974, Milton C. Scott Visiting Professor,...

Richard Finn, OP Fr Richard Finn OP is a Dominican friar, and Regent (Head of House) at Blackfriars Hall since 2004. He read English at Cambridge and Classics in Oxford before studying Church History in both universities at postgraduate level. He worked for four years as a University chaplain before serving as a teacher and...

Martin Davies, Ph.D. Dr. Martin Davies is Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. He was Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy at Oxford from 1993 to 2000 and then moved to the Australian National University as Professor of Philosophy in the Research School of Social...

Dennis McBride, Ph.D., MPA Dr. McBride is an affiliated professor at the Georgetown University Public Policy Institute and the Georgetown University Medical Center. Since 2001 he has been the President of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, a not-for-profit, non-partisan, academically oriented think tank, specializing in science and technology policy. He is Co-Editor of the...

Susan Schneider, Ph.D. Dr. Susan Schneider is assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN) and the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS). She is also a fellow with the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET). Her...

Erik Parens, Ph.D. Dr. Erik Parens is a Senior Research Scholar at The Hastings Center, a nonpartisan research institution dedicated to bioethics and the public interest. He is also a visiting professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Sarah Lawrence College. He current research projects include “Interpreting Neuroimages: Interdisciplinary Engagement with the...

Jeffrey L. Krichmar, Ph.D. Jeffrey L. Krichmar is an assistant professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests include neurorobotics, embodied cognition, biologically plausible models of learning and memory, and the effect of neural architecture on neural function. Dr. Krichmar received his Ph.D. in Computational Sciences and...

Layne Kalbfleisch, Ph.D. Layne Kalbfleisch, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in Educational Psychology at the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University. She is also the Pomata Term Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in George Mason’s Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study. Dr. Kalbfleisch serves as the principal investigator and lab chief of Krasnow...

James Giordano, Ph.D. Dr. James Giordano is Samueli-Rockefeller Professor of Medicine and Neurosciences, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC. and is a Senior Fellow of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies (VA), where he serves as Director for the Center for Neurotechnology Studies; he is a Fellow in Philosophical Psychology at Blackfriar’s Hall, University of...

Kevin FitzGerald, S.J., Ph.D. Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald is a Research Associate Professor in the Division of Biochemistry and Pharmacology of the Department of Oncology and the David Lauler Chair for Catholic Health Care Ethics at the Georgetown University Medical Center. He is a member of the Center for Clinical Bioethics, the Advisory Board for the...

Sheri Alpert, M.A., M.P.A., Ph.D. Dr. Sheri Alpert is a Lecturer and Associate Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Bioethics. Immediately prior to her arrival at Penn, Dr. Alpert was at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia) working on issues in neuroethics. Before that, she was the Director of the Undergraduate Program in Science,...

Roger Scruton, Ph. D. Roger Scruton, Ph. D. is currently Research Professor for the Institute for the Psychological Sciences where he teaches philosophy at their graduate school in both Washington and Oxford. He is also Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. Dr. Scruton is a writer, philosopher and public commentator. He has specialized in...

Esther M. Sternberg, M.D. Dr. Esther M. Sternberg received her M.D. and Rheumatology training at McGill University in Montreal, Canada and was on the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, before joining the National Institutes of Health in 1986. Currently Chief of the Section on Neuroendocrine Immunology and Behavior at the National Institute...

Henry P. Stapp, Ph.D. Dr. Henry Stapp is a theoretical physicist at the University of California’s Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, specializing in the mathematical and logical foundations of quantum mechanics. His doctoral thesis under Nobel Laureates Segré and Chamberlain created the relativistic theory for the analysis of the proton-proton polarization and spin-correlation experiments. On the basis...

Jeffrey M. Schwartz, M.D. Jeffrey M. Schwartz, M.D. is Research Psychiatrist at UCLA School of Medicine and a seminal thinker and researcher in the field of self-directed neuroplasticity. He is the author of over 100 scientific publications in the fields of neuroscience and psychiatry, and several popular books with HarperCollins, including The Mind and the...

Christina M. Puchalski, M.D. Dr. Puchalski is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Health Care Sciences at The George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of The George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish), a center that develops educational, clinical, and...

Sam Parnia, MD, PhD, is one of the world’s leading experts on the scientific study of death, the state of the human mind-brain, and near-death experiences. He is director of Resuscitation Research at the State University of New York in Stony Brook, USA and an honorary fellow at Southampton University Hospital, UK. Read More

Andrew B. Newberg, M.D. Dr. Andrew B. Newberg is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology and Psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and a staff physician in Nuclear Medicine. Upon completing a Fellowship in Nuclear Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, he has actively pursued a number of neuroimaging...

Hanifa D. Mezoui, Ph.D. A native of Algeria who has worked with the United Nations for the past 25 years, Dr. Mezoui holds a Doctorate in French Linguistics, an MA in French Literature, and a diploma in Business Administration from the University of Aix-en-Provence in Southern France. She is currently Chief of the NGO Section...

Bruce Greyson, M.D., Ph.D. Bruce Greyson is the Chester F. Carlson Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences and Director of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia Medical School. He graduated from Cornell University with a major in psychology in 1968, received his medical degree from the State University of New York...

Ebrahim Elahi, M.D., FACS Dr. Ebrahim Elahi is an Associate Clinical Professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York specializing in Ophthalmic and Oculofacial surgery. He is presently the Director of Fifth Avenue Eye Associates, and past Director of the Mount Sinai Hospital Eye Care Services. An experienced surgeon who has pioneered...

Elie During, Ph.D. Dr. Elie During is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris 10, Nanterre, and a seminar lecturer at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris (School of Fine Arts). He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris from 1993 to 1998, and at Princeton University...

Mario Beauregard, Ph.D. Dr. Mario Beauregard is currently an Associate Researcher at the University of Montreal in the Departments of Psychology and Radiology, as well as the Neuroscience Research Center. Upon completing his B.Sc. in psychology and his Ph.D. in neuroscience from University of Montreal, Dr. Beauregard earned two postdoctoral fellowships in experimental neuropsychology, the...