Rupert Sheldrake

Biologist and Author; former Director, Perrott-Warrick Project, Cambridge

Michael Shermer

Founder and Publisher, Skeptic Magazine; Philosopher of Science; Author

Eduard Shyfrin

PhD, author of Kabbalah of Information

Todd Siler

Multimedia Artist and Author

Joseph Silk

Homewood Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University

Keshav Singh

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Alabama

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

Professor of Practical Ethics, Department of Philosophy, Duke University

Brian Skyrms

Distinguished Professor, Department of Logic and Philosophy Science, UC Irvine

Barry Smith

Director, Institute of Philosophy, University of London

Quentin Smith

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Western Michigan University

Huston Smith

Religious Scholar, Author; Visiting Professor of Religious Studies, UC Berkeley

Murray Smith

Professor of Film, Divisional Deputy Director of Research & Innovation (Interdisciplinary), and Director of the Aesthetics Research Centre, University of Kent

Lee Smolin

Senior Research Faculty, Theoretical Physics, Perimeter Institute

George Smoot III

Nobel Laureate in Physics; Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley

Elliott Sober

Hans Reichenbach Professor and William F. Vilas Research Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Christopher Southgate

Professor of Christian Theodicy, University of Exeter

Quayshawn Spencer

Robert S. Blank Presidential Associate Professor of Philosophy and Undergraduate Chair, University of Pennsylvania

Robert Spitzer

President, The Magis Center; Jesuit Priest & Philosopher

Russell Stannard

Professor Emeritus of Physics, Open University, U.K.

Henry Stapp

Physicist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Paul Steinhardt

Professor of Physics, Princeton University

Eric Steinhart

Professor of Philosophy, William Paterson University

Victor Stenger

Professpr Emeritus of Philosophy and Astronomy, University of Hawaii

W. Christopher Stewart

Vice President of Grant Programs, Templeton Religion Trust

Robert Stickgold

Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Center for Sleep and Cognition, Harvard University

Gregory Stock

Former Director of the Program on Medicine, Technology & Society, UCLA School of Medicine

Galen Strawson

President's Chair in Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin

Eleonore Stump

Professor of Philosophy, Saint Louis University

Meghan Sullivan

Professor of Philosophy, Director of Institute of Advanced Study, Notre Dame

Leonard Susskind

Professor of Theoretical Physics, Stanford University

Joshua Swamidass

Professor of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine, Washington University

Richard Swinburne

Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion Emeritus, Oxford

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James Tabor

Professor and former Chair, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Raymond Tallis

Philosopher, Essayist, Medical Doctor

Rudolph Tanzi

Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Charles Tart

Associated Distinguished Professor, Integral and Transpersonal Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies

Jill Tarter

Chair Emeritus for SETI Research, SETI Institute

Max Tegmark

Professor of Physics, MIT

Robert Temple

Deputy Center Director for Clinical Science and Senior Advisor, Office of New Drugs, FDA

Neil Theise

Professor of Pathology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Kip Thorne

Nobel Laureate in Physics; Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus, Caltech

Kevin Timpe

Professor of Philosophy, Calvin College

Frank Tipler

Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Tulane University

Allan Tobin

Chair in Neuroscience, Emeritus; Director Emeritus, UCLA Brain Research Institute

Jeff Tollaksen

Professor, Co-director, Institute of Quantum Studies, Chapman University

Giulio Tononi

Professor and Director, Wisconsin Institute for Sleep and Conssciousness, University of Wisconsin

Michael Tooley

Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado

Alan Torrance

Professor of Systematic Theology, University of St. Andrews

Andrew Torrance

Lecturer in Theology, University of St. Andrews

Mark Tramo

Director, The Institute for Music & Brain Science; Neurologist, Good Samaritan Hospital

James Trefil

Robinson Professor of Physics, George Mason University; Author

Robert Trivers

Evolutionary Biologist and Sociobiologist

Peter Tse

Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth

Derek Turner

Professor of Philosophy; Karla Heurich Harrison '28 Director of the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment; Connecticut College

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Karen Uhlenbeck

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin

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Douglas Vakoch

President, METI International (interstellar communications)

Stephan van Erp

Schillebeeckx Chair, Faculty of Philosophy, Theology, and Religious Studies, Radboud University

Bas van Fraassen

Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, San Francisco State University; McCosh Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Princeton University

J. van Huyssteen

Professor Emeritus of Theology and Science, Princeton Theological Seminary

Peter van Inwagen

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Notre Dame

Licia Verde

Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Barcelona

Mark Vernon

Pscyhotherapist, Writer, Journalist, Broadcaster

Victoria Vesna

Artist and Professor, Department of Design Media Arts, UCLA

Alexander Vilenkin

Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute of Cosmology, Tufts University

Natasha Vita-More

Humanist and Transhumanist

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Roy Walford

Professor Emeritus of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA

David Wallace

Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh

Roger Walsh

Professor, Psychiatry & Human Behavior, UC Irvine

Keith Ward

Philospher and Theologian; former Regius Professor of Divinity; former Canon, Christ Church, Oxford

Murray Watts

Playwright; Screenwriter

Steven Weinberg

Nobel Laureate in Physics; Professor Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin

Xiao-Gang Wen

Professor of Physics, MIT

Geoffrey West

Distinguished Professor and former President, Santa Fe Institute

Birgitta Whaley

Professor of Chemical Physics; Director, Berkeley Quantum Information and Computation Center, University of California, Berkeley

Thalia Wheatley

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College

Edward Wierenga

Emeritus Philosopher of Religion, University of Rochester

Frank Wilczek

Nobel Laureate in Physics; Templeton Prize recipient; Emeritus Professor of Physics, MIT; Distinguished Professor in Physics, Arizona State University

Joshua Wilt

Senior Research Associate, Case Western Reserve University

Edward Witten

Charles Simonyi Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study

John Witvliet

Director, Calvin Institute of Christian Worship

Fred Alan Wolf

Theoretical Physicist, Writer, Lecturer

Judith Wolfe

Professor of Philosophical Theology, University of St. Andrews

Stephen Wolfram

Founder and CEO, Wolfram Research

Nicholas Wolterstorff

Philosopher Emeritus of Philosophical Theolgy, Yale University

Taylor Worley

Visiting Associate Professor of Art History, Wheaton College

N.T. Wright

Research Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Early Christianity, University of St. Andrews; former Bishop of Durham

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Yang Xiao

Professor of Philosophy, Kenyon College

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Venerable Dr. Yifa

Buddhist Nun, Scholar; Founder, Woodenfish Foundation

Gino Yu

Associate Professor and Director of Digital Entertainment, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Venerable Master Hsing Yun

Abbot and Founder, Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Order

Hamza Yusuf

President, Zaytuna College

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Eran Zaidel

Emeritus Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience and Cognition, UCLA

Carol Zaleski

Professor of World Religions, Smith College

Mohammed Saleh Zarepour

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, University of Manchester

Semir Zeki

Professor of Neuroaesthetics, University College London

Dean Zimmerman

Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Rutgers Center for the Philosophy of Religion, Rutgers University

Wojciech Zurek

Laboratory Fellow and Theoretical Physicist, Los Alamos National Laboratory

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