Alex O’Connor, also known as CosmicSkeptic, is an English podcaster and YouTuber. He hosts the Within Reason podcast, on which he has interviewed figures including Richard Dawkins, David Deutsch, Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, and Slavoj Žižek. O’Connor began posting videos to YouTube as a teenager and studied philosophy and theology at St John’s College, Oxford,…
Michael James is a leading scholar and translator of the teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi (1879–1950), whose method of self-investigation (ātma-vicāra) has profoundly influenced the modern understanding of non-dual philosophy. James first encountered Ramana’s teachings in 1976 while travelling through India. He soon settled in Tiruvannamalai, where he spent twenty years studying under Sri…
Dr. Joseph A. Corabi is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. He earned his Ph.D. from Rutgers University and specializes in metaphysics and epistemology. His scholarly work delves into topics such as consciousness, personal identity, and the philosophical implications of artificial intelligence.
Mohammed Saleh Zarepour is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester. He is on the editorial boards of Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, Religious Studies, and AGATHEOS. He was an associate member and earlier a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Global Philosophy of Religion Project at the Department of Philosophy of the…
Carol Zaleski is a Professor of World Religions at Smith College. She is a scholar and writer about religion. She is a columnist and editor-at-large for Christian Century, and has contributed articles and reviews to The New York Times, First Things, America, Second Spring, Nova et Vetera, Communio, Parabola, The Journal of Religion and The Journal of the History of Ideas. Zaleski previously…
David Cheetham is a philosophical theologian researching a range of topics including the relations between religions, contemporary philosophical theology, and theology and the arts. He is currently a Professor of Philosophical Theology at the University of Birmingham and Co-Director of the Birmingham Centre for the Philosophy of Religion. Following doctoral studies on the work of…
Imran Aijaz is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. His research focuses primarily on analytic philosophy of religion and Islamic philosophy. Across these two areas, he is especially interested in the topics of faith and reason, religious epistemology, religious diversity, and religious pluralism. He also has an interest in ancient philosophy…
Swami Medhananda is a monk of the Ramakrishna Order and an academic philosopher, currently serving as Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Vedanta Society of Southern California in Hollywood. He is also the Hindu Chaplain at both UCLA and the University of Southern California. He is Section Editor for the International Journal of Hindu…
Tao Jiang’s primary research interest is classical Chinese philosophy, Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophy (Madhyamaka and Yogācāra), and cross-cultural philosophy. He is currently the director of the Rutgers Center for Chinese Studies. He is the author of Contexts and Dialogue: Yogācāra Buddhism and Modern Psychology on the Subliminal Mind (Hawaii), the translator of A Guided Tour of the Collected Works…
Jay Lazar Garfield is a professor of philosophy who specializes in Tibetan Buddhism. He is currently Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities at Smith College, professor of philosophy at the University of Melbourne, visiting professor of philosophy and Buddhist studies at Harvard Divinity School, and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the Central University of Tibetan…
Helen De Cruz (1978–2025) was a Belgian philosopher and Danforth Chair in the Humanities at Saint Louis University who specialised in philosophy of religion, experimental philosophy, and philosophy of cognitive science. De Cruz obtained their PhD in philosophy at the University of Groningen in 2011, and a PhD in archaeology and art sciences at the…