Samir Okasha FBA, is a Professor of Philosophy of Science at University of Bristol. He was appointed a Fellow of the British Academy in 2018. Okasha is a winner of Lakatos Award for his book Evolution and the Levels of Selection. From 2008 to 2011, he was Principal Investigator on a major AHRC-funded research project,…
Swami Medhananda is a monk of the Ramakrishna Order and an academic philosopher, currently serving as Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Vedanta Society of Southern California in Hollywood. He is also the Hindu Chaplain at both UCLA and the University of Southern California. He is Section Editor for the International Journal of Hindu…
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…
Frank Perkins’ work addresses common philosophical issues by drawing resources across different cultural traditions. Many of his research interests center around globalizing philosophy of religion. He is the author of Heaven and Earth are not Humane: The Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy, which gives a history of early Chinese philosophy in terms of…
Tao Jiang’s primary research interest is classical Chinese philosophy, Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophy (Madhyamaka and Yogācāra), and cross-cultural philosophy. He is currently the director of the Rutgers Center for Chinese Studies. He is the author of Contexts and Dialogue: Yogācāra Buddhism and Modern Psychology on the Subliminal Mind (Hawaii), the translator of A Guided Tour of the Collected Works…
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 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 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…