Freeman John Dyson was a British-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum electrodynamics, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering. Dyson was a member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and lived in Princeton, New Jersey, for over fifty years. Dyson was also a member…
William John Grassie is an American interdisciplinary scholar, social activist, and organizational consultant. He received his doctorate in comparative religion from Temple University and his BA in political science from Middlebury College. Grassie has taught in a variety of positions at Temple University, Swarthmore College, and the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to graduate school, Grassie…
David Hunt was a Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Whittier College in Whittier, CA. He earned a BA from Pomona College and a PhD from Vanderbilt University. His academic interests included Ancient and Early Medieval Philosophy (especially Plato, Plotinus, and Augustine), Metaphysics, Action Theory, and the Philosophy of Religion. Hunt…
Susan Adele Greenfield is a British scientist, writer, broadcaster, and member of the House of Lords. Greenfield, whose specialty is the physiology of the brain, has worked to research and bring attention to Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease. Greenfield is Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at Lincoln College, Oxford. On 1 February 2006, she was installed…
Jared Mason Diamond is an American scientist, historian, and author. He is a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, and he has written hundreds of scientific articles and books. In 1999, he received the National Medal of Science, an honor bestowed by the President of the United States and the National Science Foundation. He is currently a…
Murali Doraiswamy is a leading physician scientist in the areas of brain health and personalized medicine at Duke Medicine where he is a Professor in the Division of Translational Neuroscience and Director of the Neurocognitive Disorders Program in Psychiatry. He also serves as a member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and the Duke…
Sarah Anne Coakley FBA is an English Anglican priest, systematic theologian, and philosopher of religion with interdisciplinary interests. Since 2018 she has been an Honorary Professor at St Andrews University, and from 2019 a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Australian Catholic University (Melbourne and Rome). Coakley received her PhD on Ernst Troeltsch from the University…
Glen David Brin, PhD is an American scientist and award-winning author of science fiction. He has received the Hugo, Locus, Campbell and Nebula Awards. Brin graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in astrophysics. He followed this with a Master of Science in Applied Physics and a Doctor of Philosophy…
Susan Jane Blackmore is an English freelance writer, lecturer, and broadcaster on psychology and the paranormal, perhaps best known for her books Consciousness: An Introduction and The Meme Machine. Susan Blackmore graduated from St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, with a degree in psychology and physiology. She went on to do postgraduate study in environmental psychology at…
Stephen L. Chorover is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. His graduate training was in the field of neuropsychology, and his current research interests focus on the problem of understanding relations between the organization and development of the central nervous system (and especially the brain), on the one…
Julian Baggini is the founding editor of The Philosophers’ Magazine. He has a PhD on the philosophy of personal identity and is the author, co-author or editor of over 20 books including Freedom Regained, The Virtues of the Table, The Ego Trick and, most recently, The Edge of Reason. He has written for numerous newspapers…
Stephen E. Braude is an American philosopher and parapsychologist. He is a past president of the Parapsychological Association, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Scientific Exploration, and a professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Braude received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1971. After working as a…