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Nicholas Wolterstorff

Nicholas Wolterstorff is an American philosopher and a liturgical theologian. He is currently Noah Porter Professor Emeritus Philosophical Theology at Yale University.  A prolific writer with wide-ranging philosophical and theological interests, he has written books on aesthetics, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and philosophy of education. In Faith and Rationality, Wolterstorff, Alvin Plantinga,…

Barry Loewer

Barry Loewer is a distinguished professor of philosophy at Rutgers University and director of the Rutgers Center for Philosophy and the Sciences. His specialities include philosophy of science, metaphysics, philosophical logic, and philosophy of mind. He received his BA in Philosophy, Mathematics, and Greek from Amherst College. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stanford…

Michael Rea

Michael Rea is Rev. John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame. He has taught at the University of Notre Dame since 2001. His research focuses primarily on  topics in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and analytic theology. He has has written or…

Michael Murray

Michael J. Murray oversees the program departments of the John Templeton Foundation. Before joining the Foundation, he was the Arthur and Katherine Shadek Humanities Professor of Philosophy at Franklin and Marshall College. He received his BA from Franklin and Marshall and his MA and Ph.D from the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on…

Menachem Fisch

Menachem Fisch is Joseph and Ceil Mazer Professor of History and Philosophy of Science emeritus, and Director of the Center for Religious and Interreligious Studies at Tel Aviv University.  He is former President of the Israel Society for History and Philosophy of Science, and former Chair of the National Committee for History and Philosophy of…

Robert Audi

Robert Audi is the John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.  His major work has focused on epistemology, ethics – especially on ethical intuitionism – and the theory of action. Audi previously held a Chair in the Business School at Notre Dame. His 2005 book, The Good in the Right, updates and…

Meghan Sullivan

Meghan Sullivan is the Wilsey Family College Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. She serves as Director of the University-wide Ethics Initiative and is the founding director of Notre Dame’s Institute for Ethics and the Common Good, which launched in the summer of 2024.  Sullivan has degrees from UVa (BA with highest…

Carlo Rovelli

Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist at Centre de Physique Theorique de Luminy. His work is mainly in the field of quantum gravity, where he is among the founders of the loop quantum gravity theory. He has also worked in the history and philosophy of science. He collaborates regularly with several Italian newspapers, in…

David Wallace

David Wallace is a Mellon Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Wallace’s original training was in theoretical physics: he took a Physics PhD at Oxford before his interests took him towards more conceptual and foundational questions in physics, and from there into philosophy. Wallace’s research interests are mostly in…

Eric Schwitzgebel

Eric Schwitzgebel is Professor of Philosophy at University of California at Riverside.  He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Stanford in 1990 and his PhD in Philosophy from U.C. Berkeley in 1997, under the supervision of Elisabeth A. Lloyd, Alison Gopnik, and John Searle. He has published two books and over twenty articles on the…

Michael Tooley

Michael Tooley is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he has been on faculty since 1992. He received his BA from the University of Toronto and his PhD from Princeton University in 1968. Before coming to Colorado, Tooley spent many years in Australia, holding two research appointments at the…

Richard Swinburne

Richard Granville Swinburne FBA is an English philosopher. He is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Over the last 50 years, Swinburne has been a proponent of philosophical arguments for the existence of God. His philosophical contributions are primarily in the philosophy of religion and philosophy of science. He has been…