Richard Dawkins is one of the world’s most eminent writers and thinkers, and a major contributor to the public understanding of the science of evolution. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Royal Society of Literature. Dawkins was Professor for Public Understanding of…
Jay Lazar Garfield is a professor of philosophy who specializes in Tibetan Buddhism. He also specializes on the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, ethics, and hermeneutics. He is currently Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities at Smith College, professor of philosophy at the University of Melbourne, visiting professor of philosophy…
Helen De Cruz is a Belgian philosopher and Danforth Chair in the Humanities at Saint Louis University who specializes in philosophy of religion, experimental philosophy, and philosophy of cognitive science. She is also currently editor-in-chief for Res Philosophica, associate editor for Ergo, editorial board member of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and editorial board member…
Elisabeth Schellekens is the Chair Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. Aside from running the department’s aesthetics section, with its popular BA and MA programs and busy research culture, she is also the Director of Studies for doctoral studies at the department. Her research interests include the aesthetics of non-perceptual objects,…
Taylor Worley is the Visiting Associate Professor of Art History at Wheaton College in Illinois. In 2021, he awarded a grant from the Templeton Religion Trust for a project titled “Thinking About Thinking: Conceptual Art in the Contemplative Tradition.” Dr. Worley served as the Visiting Associate Professor of Faith and Culture and the Managing Director…
Joshua Wilt is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. One line of his research explores the structure of personality traits, personality processes that manifest in daily life, and the ways in which personality structure and process may be integrated. Much of his work in this area…
Marlene Altenmüller is a postdoctoral researcher with the Social Psychology group at The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Altenmüller’s research focuses on trust in and within science. Her research in this area shows, the ideas of Open Science are important for (re)building trust in science—both the public’s trust in science as well as trust among…
Mario Gollwitzer’s research program is located at the crossroads of justice, morality, and aggression. He is interested in what people hope to gain when they take revenge, when they opt for a particular kind of penalty for criminal offenses, and what they regard a “fair” retribution. He is trying to find evidence for the notion…
James MacMillan read music at Edinburgh University and took Doctoral studies in composition at Durham University with John Casken. After working as a lecturer at Manchester University, he returned to Scotland and settled in Glasgow. The successful premiere of Tryst at the 1990 St Magnus Festival led to his appointment as Affiliate Composer of the…
Prof. Corbett directs CEPHAS, a Thomistic Centre for Philosophy and Scholastic Theology; TheoArtistry, a project bringing together theologians and artists for creative collaborations; and he co-directs the MLitt in Sacred Music (a collaboration between ITIA and the Music Centre). Prior to joining the University of St Andrew’s School of Divinity in 2015, Corbett held positions as Junior…
Jonathan Schooler’s research takes a “big picture” perspective in attempting to understand the nature of mental life, and in particular consciousness. Combining empirical, philosophical, and contemplative traditions, Jonathan Schooler addresses broad questions that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. Some of the topics and associated questions include: Meta-awareness: When do we notice our thoughts and how does explicitly…
Dr. Ivcevic’s research interests center around the role of emotion and emotions and self-regulation in creativity across domains, as well as self-expression in different contexts of everyday life. She collaborated with colleagues from China, Denmark, Spain, China, and Croatia and published her research in journals such as Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Personality,…