Swami Sarvapriyananda (Pre-Monastic name Biswarup Mitra) is a Hindu monk belonging to the Ramakrishna Order. He is the current resident Swami and head of the Vedanta Society of New York, a position he has been serving since 2017. Sarvapriyananda joined the Ramakrishna Math in 1994 and received sannyasa in 2004. He served as an acharya…
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…
Kelly James Clark has held postdoctoral fellowships at Oxford University, the University of St. Andrews, and the University of Notre Dame. Clark has lectured around the world and has served as director for international conferences on science and religion, interfaith cooperation, & Chinese philosophy. He has worked extensively with the John Templeton Foundation, organizing many…
Eduard Volodymyrovych Shyfrin is a Ukrainian entrepreneur who is a co-owner of the Midland Group. From 1977–1983, he attended the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, earning a PhD in metallurgy. Shifrin spent many years studying the Torah and Kabbalah with a particular interest in the intersection of science and religion. He also published a…
Toji Kamata is Professor Emeritus at Kyoto University and Specially Appointed Professor at the Institute of Grief Care at Sophia University in Japan. He is ordained as a Shinto priest. He has authored numerous books addressing Japanese spirituality from historical, cultural and philosophical perspectives. An English translation of his book Myth and Deity in Japan…
James E. Faulconer is an American philosopher, a former Richard L. Evans Professor of Philosophy at Brigham Young University, the former director of BYU’s London Centre, a Fellow at the Wheatley Institution (and its former associate director), and a Senior Research Fellow at the Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. He previously served as the dean…
Ravi Gomatam is the Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute and the Institute of Semantic Information Sciences and Technology. After obtaining his master’s degree in electronics engineering, Ravi Gomatam worked for a few years with Air India in Mumbai, on software development projects, including online crew scheduling. He then went to the USA, where he worked for…
Ted Good currently works at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto. HIs primary research areas are in History of Religion, Social and Political Philosophy and Metaphysics.