Bas C. van Fraassen is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University and the McCosh Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton University. He teaches courses in the philosophy of science, philosophical logic and the role of models in scientific practice. Van Fraassen earned his BA from the University of Alberta and his…
Mark Vernon is a writer, broadcaster and journalist who began his professional life as a priest in the Church of England. He has a PhD from Warwick University in philosophy, degrees in theology from Oxford University and Durham University, and a physics degree from Durham University. He went freelance 10 years ago following the publication…
Kevin Timpe is Professor of Philosophy at Northwest Nazarene University. He received his PhD in philosophy from Saint Louis University in 2004. He has published written or edited books including his works on free will Free Will: Sourcehood and Its Alternatives, Free Will in Philosophical Theology, and Free Will and Theism: Connections, Contingencies, and Concerns.…
Michael Tooley is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he has been on faculty since 1992. He received his BA from the University of Toronto and his PhD from Princeton University in 1968. Before coming to Colorado, Tooley spent many years in Australia, holding two research appointments at the…
Richard Granville Swinburne FBA is an English philosopher. He is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Over the last 50 years, Swinburne has been a proponent of philosophical arguments for the existence of God. His philosophical contributions are primarily in the philosophy of religion and philosophy of science. He has been…
Raymond C. Tallis is a a retired physician and neuroscientist from Great Britain. His resume boasts titles like philosopher, poet and novelist. He is also a member of the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Royal College of Physicians and Royal Society of Arts. Upon graduating from Liverpool College, Tallis gained an Open Scholarship to Keble…
Katherin Rogers is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Delaware. She holds a BA in Philosophy and History, Summa Cuma Laude, and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Delaware. Her thesis was entitled “A Comparison Between St. Augustine of Hippo and St. Anselm of Canterbury on Certain Problems Concerning the Freedom…
Alva Noë is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. The main focus of his work is the theory of perception and consciousness. In addition to these problems in cognitive science and the philosophy of mind, he is interested in phenomenology, the theory of art, Wittgenstein, and the origins of analytic philosophy. He…
Barry C Smith is a professor of philosophy and Director of the Institute of Philosophy at University of London. He has held visiting professorships at the University of Califonia at Berkeley and the Ecole Normale Superiéure in Paris. Smith is a philosopher of language and mind who has published on self-knowledge, linguistic knoweldge, consciousness, the…
Eric Steinhart is a Professor of Philosophy at William Paterson University. He received his BS in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State University before earning an MA in Philosophy from Boston College, focusing on the history of philosophy. He was awarded the PhD in Philosophy from SUNY at Stony Brook, winning the first “Distinguished Dissertation”…
John Rogers Searle (1932–2025) was an American philosopher and the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. John Searle began his college education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and in his junior year became a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he obtained all of his university degrees, BA, MA and DPhil.…
Seyyed Hossein Nasr is an Iranian University Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University, and a prominent Islamic philosopher. Nasr is a Muslim Persian philosopher and renowned scholar of comparative religion, a lifelong student and follower of Frithjof Schuon, and writes in the fields of Islamic esoterism, Sufism, philosophy of science, and metaphysics. Professor…