David Eagleman is a neuroscientist and writer at Stanford University. He is best known for his published work on time perception, synesthesia, and neurolaw. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a council member in the World Economic Forum, and a New York Times bestselling author published in 27 languages. As an undergraduate at Rice University, he…
David Elieser Deutsch, FRS is a British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation (CQC) in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford. Deutsch pioneered the field of quantum computation by formulating a description for a…
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is an American philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual. She is the author of 10 books of acclaimed fiction and non-fiction, including The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us (2026), 36 Arguments for the Existence of God, Betraying Spinoza, and Plato at the Googleplex. She holds a PhD…
George Francis Rayner Ellis is the Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Complex Systems in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He co-authored The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time with University of Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking, published in 1973, and is considered one of the world’s leading…
Paul Stuart Fiddes is a British Baptist theologian. He is Professor of Systematic Theology in the University of Oxford and was formerly Principal of Regent’s Park College and Chairman of the Theology Faculty. He has been described as “one of the leading contemporary Baptist theologians”, “one of the leading scholars of theology and literature writing…
John Behr is a British Eastern Orthodox priest and theologian, and Regius Professor of Humanity at the University of Aberdeen, a chair he has held since 2020. He was ordained to the diaconate on September 8, 2001 (the feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos) and the priesthood on September 14, 2001 (the feast of…
Sarah Anne Coakley FBA is an English Anglican priest, systematic theologian, and philosopher of religion with interdisciplinary interests. Since 2018 she has been an Honorary Professor at St Andrews University, and from 2019 a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Australian Catholic University (Melbourne and Rome). As an Anglican priest, systematic theologian, and philosopher of religion,…