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Scott Aaronson Professor of Computer Science; Director, Quantum Information Center, University of Texas at Austin
David Albert Professor of Philosophy and Director of the M.A. Program in The Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Columbia University
David Chalmers Professor of Philosophy and Co-director, Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, New York University
William Craig Philosopher and Philosophical Theologian; Visiting Scholar in Philosophy, Biola University
Daniel Dennett University Professor, Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University
Arthur Hyman Professor of Philosophy, former Dean of the Bernard Revel Graduate School, and Rabbi, Yeshiva University
Carlo Rovelli Theoretical Physicist, Centre de Physique Theorique de Luminy; Distinguished Visiting Research Chair, Perimeter Institute
John Searle Former Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Language, University of California, Berkeley
Bas van Fraassen Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, San Francisco State University; McCosh Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Princeton University
Frank Wilczek Nobel Laureate in Physics; Templeton Prize recipient; Emeritus Professor of Physics, MIT; Distinguished Professor in Physics, Arizona State University
Dean Zimmerman Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Rutgers Center for the Philosophy of Religion, Rutgers University