Nick Bostrom is a Swedish-born philosopher with a background in theoretical physics, computational neuroscience, logic, and artificial intelligence, as well as philosophy. He is the most-cited professional philosopher in the world under the age of 50. He is a Professor at Oxford University where he heads the Future of Humanity Institute as its founding director.…
Mark Balaguer is Professor of Philosophy, California State University, Los Angeles. His research interests are in philosophy of mathematics and language. Mark’s major book is Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics. He received his PhD Philosophy from City University of New York Graduate Center. Balaguer describes mathematics as follows: “Mathematics is very different from what you…
Jesse Couenhoven is a Professor of Theology at Villanova University. He earned his Bachelor’s in psychology at Oberlin College, a Master’s degree in historical theology from Yale Divinity School, and a PhD from Yale’s Religion Department. Couenhoven has published articles on Barthian, Augustinian, and feminist theologies of sin and grace, freedom, natural law, virtue ethics,…
David Z Albert, PhD, is Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy and Director of the MA Program in The Philosophical Foundations of Physics at Columbia University in New York. He received his BS in physics from Columbia College (1976) and his doctorate in theoretical physics from The Rockefeller University (1981) under Professor Nicola Khuri. Afterwards…
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…
David Chalmers is a philosopher at New York University and the Australian National University. He is Professor of Philosophy and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at NYU, and also Professor of Philosophy at ANU. Chalmers works in the philosophy of mind and in related areas of philosophy and cognitive science. He…
Ned Block is an American philosopher working in the field of the philosophy of mind who has made important contributions to matters of consciousness and cognitive science. Ned Block, Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science, came to NYU in 1996 from MIT where he was Chair of the Philosophy Program. He works in…
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…
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…