The Revd Dr. Rodney Holder was Course Director of the Faraday Institute from its inception in 2006 until 2013, and remains a Bye Fellow of St. Edmund’s College and a Faraday Associate. Holder read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and researched for a DPhil in astrophysics at Christ Church, Oxford. He remained at Oxford for…
Daniel Clement Dennett III was an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist. He was most recently Professor Emeritus at Tufts University. Dennett was a firm atheist and secularist, a member of the Secular Coalition for America advisory board, as well as an outspoken supporter of the Brights movement. Dennett was referred to as one of…
Justin L. Barrett is President of nonprofit Blueprint 1543, developing initiatives and scholarship at the intersection of religion and the sciences. He previously held positions at Fuller Graduate School of Psychology as Professor of Psychology and leading the Office for Science, Theology, and Religion, as well as the Thrive Center for Human Development prior to…
Warren S. Brown is founder and previous director of the Lee Edward Travis Research Institute at the Fuller Theological Seminary and Professor of Psychology in the Graduate School of Psychology. He is also a previous member of the UCLA Brain Research Institute. Brown received his doctorate in Experimental Physiological Psychology from the University of Southern…
Sean Carroll is a physicist and Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. His research focuses on fundamental physics and cosmology. He has been awarded prizes and fellowships by the National Science Foundation, NASA, the American Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of London, and…
John Bishop is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He hodls a BA from the Australian National Unviersity and a PhD from Cambridge. Bishop’s primary areas of research interest are the philosophy of religion and philosophy of action. HIs recent research resulted in the book Believing by Faith. Since…
John Cottingham is an English philosopher, educated at Merchant Taylors’ School near London, and St John’s College, Oxford. He is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Reading, Professorial Research Fellow, Heythrop College, University of London, and an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford. He was from 1993 to 2012 editor of Ratio: the…
Julian Baggini is the founding editor of The Philosophers’ Magazine. He has a PhD on the philosophy of personal identity and is the author, co-author or editor of over 20 books including Freedom Regained, The Virtues of the Table, The Ego Trick and, most recently, The Edge of Reason. He has written for numerous newspapers…
William Lane Craig is an American analytic philosopher and Christian theologian. He is known for his work in the philosophy of religion, philosophy of time, and the defense of Christian theism. He is notable for reviving interest in the Kalām cosmological argument with his 1979 publication of The Kalām Cosmological Argument, an argument for the…
Francis Sellers Collins is an American physician-geneticist noted for his discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the Human Genome Project (HGP). He currently serves as Director of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Prior to being appointed Director, he was the founder and president of the BioLogos Foundation, an organization that…
Andrei A. Buckareff is a Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. His research focuses on metaphysical and epistemological issues in Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion. Before Marist, he spent two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department…
Stephen E. Braude is an American philosopher and parapsychologist. He is a past president of the Parapsychological Association, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Scientific Exploration, and a professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Braude received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1971. After working as a…