Michael J. Murray oversees the program departments of the John Templeton Foundation. Before joining the Foundation, he was the Arthur and Katherine Shadek Humanities Professor of Philosophy at Franklin and Marshall College. He received his BA from Franklin and Marshall and his MA and Ph.D from the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on…
Menachem Fisch is Joseph and Ceil Mazer Professor of History and Philosophy of Science emeritus, and Director of the Center for Religious and Interreligious Studies at Tel Aviv University. He is former President of the Israel Society for History and Philosophy of Science, and former Chair of the National Committee for History and Philosophy of…
Tom McLeish was Emeritus Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of York. Elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2011, he chaired its Education Committee. He was also a Senior Associate of Pembroke College, Oxford, and a former fellow of Emmanuel College Cambridge. After a first degree in physics and PhD in polymer physics…
Michael Escott Ruse FRSC (1940–2024) was a British-born Canadian philosopher of science who specialized in the philosophy of biology and worked on the relationship between science and religion, the creation–evolution controversy, and the demarcation problem within science. Before coming to Florida State in 2000, Michael taught at the University of Guelph for 35 years. He…
John Lewis Heilbron was an American historian of science best known for his work in the history of physics and the history of astronomy. He was Professor of History and Vice-Chancellor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, senior research fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, and visiting professor at Yale University and the California Institute…
Stephen M. Barr is an American author and professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, and a member of its Bartol Research Institute. He is also President of the Society of Catholic Scientists. Barr does research in theoretical particle physics and cosmology. In 2011, he was elected Fellow of…
Louis Caruana SJ is a Jesuit priest ordained in 1991 and holds degrees in science, philosophy, and theology. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge, and is now Dean of Philosophy at the Gregorian University, Rome, and Research Associate of Heythrop College, University of London. His research publications focus on the interaction between…
Dr. Giddings is a researcher and professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, specializing in theoretical physics. His current research includes investigating the quantum nature of spacetime, and what happens to information that is sent into black holes. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Utah, and then went to Princeton…
Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist at Centre de Physique Theorique de Luminy. His work is mainly in the field of quantum gravity, where he is among the founders of the loop quantum gravity theory. He has also worked in the history and philosophy of science. He collaborates regularly with several Italian newspapers, in…
David Wallace is a Mellon Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Wallace’s original training was in theoretical physics: he took a Physics PhD at Oxford before his interests took him towards more conceptual and foundational questions in physics, and from there into philosophy. Wallace’s research interests are mostly in…
Alexander Vilenkin is the Leonard and Jane Bernstein Professor and Director of the Institute of Cosmology at Tufts University. A theoretical physicist who has been working in the field of cosmology for 35 years, Vilenkin has written over 150 papers and is responsible for introducing the ideas of eternal inflation and quantum creation of the…
Kip Thorne is a theoretical physicist, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. He was the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology until 2009. Thorne received his BS degree from Caltech in 1962 and his PhD from Princeton University in 1965. After two years of postdoctoral study, Thorne…