James Hartle

Former Emeritus Professor of Physics, UC Santa Barbara

John Hawthorne

Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern California

John Heilbron

Former Professor Emeritus of History and History of Science, UC Berkeley

David Herrelko

Retired Brigadier General, Vice Commander, Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

John Hick

Professsor Emeritus of Theology, Philosopher and Theologian, University of Birmingham

Donald Hoffman

Cognitive Scientist, UC Irvine

Rodney Holder

Former Course Director, Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, Cambridge University

Jim Holt

Philosopher of Science; Science writer

Bruce Hood

Professor of Developmental Psychology in Society, University of Bristol

Michael Hopkins

Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University

John Horgan

Director, Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology

Sabine Hossenfelder

Physicist and Science Writer, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy

Alice Huang

Senior Faculty Associate in Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech; former Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard; Dean of Science, NYU; President, AAAS

Nicholas Humphrey

Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Cambridge

David Hunt

Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Whittier College

Russ Hurlburt

Professor of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Arthur Hyman

Professor of Philosophy, former Dean of the Bernard Revel Graduate School, and Rabbi, Yeshiva University

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Muzaffar Iqbal

President, Center for Islamic Sciences, Canada; General Editor, Integrated Encyclopedia of the Qur’an

Christopher Isham

Physicist (Dirac Medal), Imperial College London

Jenann Ismael

Professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University

John Iversen

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Canada

Portia Iversen

Autism Research & Advocacy; Co-founder of Cure Autism Now Foundation

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Nathan Jacobs

Scholar in Residence of Philosophy and Religion, Vanderbilt University

Rhoda Janzen

Writer; Professor of English, Hope College

William Jarvis

Professor of Preventive Medicine, Loma Linda University; Skeptic

Saru Jayaraman

Attorney, Author, Activist

Robin Jensen

The Patrick O'Brien Professor of Theology, the University of Notre Dame

Tao Jiang

Director of the Center for Chinese Studies, Rutgers University

Brian Josephson

Nobel Laureate in Physics; Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Cambridge

Jean-Luc Jucker

Anthropologist and Data Analyst Consultant

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Menas Kafatos

Professor of Computational Physics, Chapman University

Subhash Kak

Regents Professor of Computer Science, Oklahoma State

Michio Kaku

Professor of Physics, City College of New York; Futurist; Author

Renata Kallosh

Professor of Physics, Stanford University

Toji Kamata

Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University; Shinto priest

John Kao

Chairman, Institute for Large Scale Innovation

Stuart Kauffman

Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Univesity of Pennsylvania; Santa Fe Institute

Brian Keating

Professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego; Fellow, American Physical Society

Philip Kitcher

John Dewey Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Columbia University

Christopher Knight

Orthodox priest, former Executive Secretary of the International Society for Science and Religion

Joshua Knobe

Professor of Philosophy, Psychology, and Linguistics, Yale University

Christof Koch

President and Chief Scientist, Allen Institute for Brain Science

Steve Koonin

Former Provost, Caltech; Former Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy

Bart Kosko

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Law, USC

George Kozmetsky

Founder, IC² Institute; former Dean, School of Business, University of Texas at Austin; National Medal of Technology

Lawrence Krauss

President, Origins Project Foundation; Theoretical Physicist

Shri Kulkarni

Hale Professorship of Astronomy; former Executive Officer for Astronomy, Director of Caltech Optical Observatories

Raymond Kurzweil

Inventor, Computer Scientist, Futurist

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Daniel Labriola

Founder & Director, Northwest Natural Health (Naturopathic)

George Lakoff

Professor of Linguistics, UC Berkeley

Stephen Lambden

Academic Researcher, UC Merced

Jaron Lanier

Computer Scientist, Seer, Artist

Robert Laughlin

Nobel Laureate in Physics; Professor of Physics, Stanford University

Stephen Law

Director of Philosophy, Continuing Education, Oxford; Editor, Think

E. Thomas Lawson

Honorary Professor and Research Scientist, Queen's University Belfast

Hilary Lawson

Philosopher, founder of Institute of Art and Ideas

Robin Le Poidevin

Professor of Metaphysics, University of Leeds

Samuel Lebens

Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Haifa; Orthodox Rabbi

Leon Lederman

Nobel Prize in Physics; Director Emeritus, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)

Joseph LeDoux

Henry And Lucy Moses Professor of Science; Professor of Neural Science, Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University

Brian Leftow

William P. Alston Professor for the Philosophy of Religion, Rutgers University

Nathan Lents

Professor of Biology, John Jay College

Alan Leshner

Former CEO, American Association for the Advancement of Science

John Leslie

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Guelph

Michael Levine

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Western Australia

Geraint Lewis

Professor of Astrophysics, Sydney Institute for Astronomy

Andrei Linde

Harald Trap Friis Professor of Physics, Stanford University

Antony Lisi

Theoretical Physicist

Mario Livio

Astrophysicist, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Visiting Professor of Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science

Rodolfo Llinas

Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Seth Lloyd

Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Physics, MIT

Lisa Lloyd

Distinguished Professor of History & Philosophy of Science & Medicine; Adjunct Professor of Biology, Indiana University (Bloomington)

Abraham “Avi” Loeb

Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, Harvard University

Peter Loewenberg

Professor Emeritus of History and Political Psychology, UCLA; former Chair, International Psychoanalytic Association

Barry Loewer

Professor and Chairperson, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University

Elizabeth Loftus

Cognitive Psychologist, UC Irvine

Andrew Loke

Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy, Hong Kong Baptist University; Elected Fellow, International Society for Science and Religion

Alan Love

Director, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science; Professor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota

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James MacMillan

Conductor; Artistic Director, The Cumnock Tryst; Professor of Theology, Imagination, and the Arts, St. Mary's College

Juan Maldacena

Professor of Theoretical Physics, Institute for Advanced Study

Bertram Malle

Professor of Psychology, Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University

Uri Maoz

Assistant Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Psychology, Chapman University

Elizabeth Margulis

Professor of Music; Director, Music Cognition Lab, Princeton University

Fotini Markopoulou

Theoretical Physicist, Perimeter Institute

Kelsey Martin

Director, Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative; former Dean, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

Jeffery Martin

Researcher in Consciousness and Transformative Studies

Barbara Marx Hubbard

Co-founder & President, Foundation for Conscious Evolution; Author; Speaker

Jennifer Mather

Professor of Psychology, University of Lethbridge

Tim Maudlin

Professor of Philosophy, New York University

John Mazziotta

Vice Chancellor, UCLA Health Sciences; CEO, UCLA Health

Hugh McCann

Porfessor Emeritus of Philosophy, Texas A&M University

Ian McFarland

Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge

Colin McGinn

Philosopher, University College London, Oxford, Rutgers, and University of Miami

Alister McGrath

Andreas Idreos Professorship in Science and Religion, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford

Tom McLeish

Professor (Emeritus) of Natural Philosophy, Department of Physics, University of York, UK

Ernan McMullin

Meritus Professor of Philosophy, Notre Dame

Patrick McNamara

Associate Professor of Neurology, Boston University

John McWhorter

Aassociate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Swami Medhananda

Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Vedanta Society of Southern California

Chad Meister

Affiliate Scholar, Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion, University of Notre Dame

Alfred Mele

Professor of Philosophy, Florida State University

Laura Mersini-Houghton

Professor of Theoretical Physics & Cosmology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Michael Merzenich

Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Francisco; Kavli Laureate in Neuroscience

Donald E. Miller

Firestone Professor of Religion; Co-founder, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, USC

Matthew Milliner

Associate Professor of Art History, Wheaton College

Marvin Minsky

Professor and Co-founder, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT

Leonard Mlodinow

Physicist and author

Ken Mogi

Senior Researcher, Sony Computer Science Labs (Japan)

Motsamai Molefe

Senior Researcher, Centre for Leadership Ethics, University of Fort Hare

Graham Molitor

Former Vice President, World Future Society

Max More

Founder, Extropy Institute

J.P. Moreland

Professor of Philosophy, Biola University

Julia Mossbridge

Julia Mossbridge, CEO and Research Director, Mossbridge Institute

Richard Mouw

President Emeritus and Senior Professor of Faith & Public Life, Fuller Seminary

Soma Mukhopādhyāy

Creator of Rapid Prompting Method for Autism (unproven/controversial)

Tito Mukhopādhyāy

Autistic Non-Speaker; author/poet (controversial)

Nancey Murphy

Senor Professor of Christian Philosophy, Fuller Theological Seminary

Bruce Murray

Professor Emeritus of Planetary Science and Geology, Caltech; former Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Michael Murray

Senior Scholar of Philosophy, Franklin & Marshall Collge; President, Arthur Vining Davis Foundation

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Yujin Nagasawa

Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics; Professor of the Philosophy, University of Oklahoma

Eddy Nahmias

Professor of Philosophy, Georgia State University

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Professor of Islamic Studies, George Washington University

Denis Noble

Professor Emeritus and co-Director of Computational Physiology, Oxford University

Alva Noë

Professor of Philosophy, UC Berkeley

Martin Nowak

Professor of Mathematics and Biology, Harvard University

Sherwin Nuland

Former Clinical Professor of Surgery, Yale University; Author

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Timothy O’Connor

Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University

Oludamini Ogunnaike

Artist

Samir Okasha

Professor of Philosophy, University of Bristol

Ken Olum

Professor, Institute of Cosmology, Tufts University

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Don Page

Professor of Physics, University of Alberta

Tim Palmer

Royal Society Research Professor in the department of physics at the University of Oxford; Author

Robert Park

Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Maryland

Sam Parnia

Associate Professor, Medicine; Director, Critical Care and Resuscitation Research, NYU Langone

Timothy Pawl

Professor of Philosophy, University of St. Thomas

John Peacock

Professor of Cosmology, University of Edinburgh

Cliff & Joyce Penner

Sexual Therapists & Educators

Roger Penrose

Nobel Prize in Physics; Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of Oxford

Franklin Perkins

Visiting Professor of the Philosophy of Religions, University of Chicago

Saul Perlmutter

Nobel Laureate in Physics; Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley

Peitro Perona

Professor of Electrical Engineering, Caltech

Massimo Pigliucci

K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy, City College of New York

Andrew Pinsent

Research Director, Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, University of Oxford

Alvin Plantinga

John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, University of Notre Dame

Carl Plantinga

Arthur H. DeKruyter Chair of Communication, Calvin College

Anya Plutynski

Professor of Philosophy, Washington University

John Polkinghorne

Professor of Mathematical Physics, President, Queens' College, Cambridge; Anglican priest; Templeton Prize recipient

Rachell Powell

Professor of Philosophy, Boston University; Director, Center for Philosophy and History of Science

Huw Price

Emeritus Fellow, former Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge

Zorana Ivcevic Pringle

A Senior Research Scientist and Director of the Creativity and Emotions lab at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence

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Dean Radin

Chief Scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences

Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad

Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy, Lancaster University

V.S. Ramachandran

Distinguished Professor; Director, Center for Brain and Cognition, UC San Diego

Varadaraja Raman

Professor Emeritus of Physics and Humanities, Rochester Institute of Technology; former President, Institute on Religion in an Age of Science

Lisa Randall

Theoretical Physicist; Professor of Science, Harvard University

Michael Rea

Professor of Philosophy, Notre Dame

Martin Rees

Astronomer Royal, Cosmologist, University of Cambridge

Dean Rickles

Professor of History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, University of Sydney

Antonius Roberts

Painter and Sculptor

Katherin Rogers

Professor of Philosophy, University of Delaware

Holmes Rolston III

University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Colorado State University

Aaron Rosen

Director, Henry Luce III Center for the Arts & Religion, Wesley Theological Seminary

Alex Rosenberg

Professor of Philosophy and Center for the Philosophy of Biology Director, Duke University

Adina Roskies

Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Dartmouth College

Carlo Rovelli

Theoretical Physicist, Centre de Physique Theorique de Luminy; Distinguished Visiting Research Chair, Perimeter Institute

Bede Rundle

Lecturer Emeritus in Philosophy, University of Oxford

Michael Ruse

Former Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Florida State University

Robert John Russell

Director Emeritus, Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences

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Wallace Sampson

Professor Emeritus of Clinical Medicine, Stanford University

Marcel Sarot

Professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy, former Dean, Tilburg School of Catholic Theology

Swami Sarvapriyananda

Minister and spiritual leader, head of the Vedanta Society of New York

Dimitar Sasselov

Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Origins of Life Initiative, Harvard University

Robert Saucy

Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology, Biola University

Lothar Schafer

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physical Chemistry, University of Arkansas

Arnold Scheibel

Professor of Neurobiology and Psychiatry, and former Director of the Brain Research Institute, UCLA

Elisabeth Schellekens

Chair Professor of Aesthetics, University of Uppsala

J.L. Schellenberg

Philosopher of Religion, Mount Saint Vincent University

John Schlag

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Neurobiology, UCLA

Marilyn Schlitz

Professor, Transpersonal Psychology, Sofia University; President Emeritus, Institute of Noetic Sciences

Jeff Schloss

Distinguished Professor of Biology, Westmont College

Simone Schnall

Professor of Experimental Social Psychology, University of Cambridge

Jonathan Schooler

American psychologist and Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, the University of California, Santa Barbara

Erin Schuman

Director, Department of Synaptic Plasticity, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research

Eric Schwitzgebel

Professor of Philosophy, University of California at Riverside

John Searle

Former Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Language, University of California, Berkeley

Aaron Segal

Senior Lecturer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Terrance Sejnowski

Professor and Laboratory Head, Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute

Lucy Shapiro

Professor. Developmental Biology, Stanford Medicine

David Shatz

Professor of Philosophy, Yeshiva University

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