Dean Rickles is Professor of History and Philosophy of Modern Physics at the University of Sydney and a Director of the Sydney Centre for Time. Rickles received his PhD from the University of Leeds, under the supervision of Steven French, with a thesis on conceptual issues in quantum gravity. He took up a postdoctoral fellowship…
Seyyed Hossein Nasr is an Iranian University Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University, and a prominent Islamic philosopher. Nasr is a Muslim Persian philosopher and renowned scholar of comparative religion, a lifelong student and follower of Frithjof Schuon, and writes in the fields of Islamic esoterism, Sufism, philosophy of science, and metaphysics. Professor…
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is an American philosopher. He specializes in ethics, moral psychology, neuro-ethics, the philosophy of law, epistemology, the philosophy of religion, and informal logic. He is Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He earned his PhD from Yale University under…
Timothy O’Connor is a Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University Bloomington. At Indiana, O’Connor is a member of its large and distinguished cognitive sciences program, recently served as chair of its department of philosophy, and has won several awards for both teaching and research excellence. He is an honors graduate of the University of Illinois…
Bede Rundle was New Zealand-born philosopher and emeritus lecturer of philosophy at the University of Oxford, specializing in philosophy of language and metaphysics. He is the author of Why There is Something Rather Than Nothing, which argues for a distinctively philosophical explanation of existence, as opposed to a physical or theological kind. Bede’s claim is…
Robin Le Poidevin is Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Leeds whose interests include the nature and experience of time, agnosticism, and philosophy of religion. He joined the Department of Philosophy at Leeds after a year as Gifford Research Fellow at St Andrews and having completed postgraduate studies at both Oxford and Cambridge, obtaining…
John Andrew Leslie is a Canadian philosopher who focuses on explaining the world’s existence. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, he earned a BA in Psychology and Philosophy, then an MLitt in Philosophy. He is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Leslie is the author…
Stuart Alan Kauffman is an American theoretical biologist and complex systems researcher who studies the origin of life on Earth. Kauffman graduated from Dartmouth in 1960, was awarded the BA (Hons) by Oxford University (where he was a Marshall Scholar) in 1963, and completed a medical degree (MD) at the University of California, San Francisco…
Nancey Murphy is an American philosopher and theologian who is Professor of Christian Philosophy at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA. She received the BA from Creighton University in philosophy and psychology, a PhD from University of California, Berkeley in philosophy of science, and a ThD from the Graduate Theological Union. Murphy’s research interests focus on…
Stephen Law is an English philosopher who is the Director of the Certificate in Higher and Education and Director of Philosophy at The Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford. He also edits the philosophical journal Think, which is published by the Royal Institute of Philosophy and aimed at the general public. He is also…
Colin McGinn is a British philosopher who has held teaching posts and professorships at University College London, the University of Oxford, Rutgers University, and the University of Miami. McGinn is best known for his work in the philosophy of mind, and is the author of over 20 books on this and other areas of philosophy,…
Ernan McMullin was a philosopher who last served as the O’Hara Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. He was an internationally-respected philosopher of science who has written and lectured extensively on subjects ranging from the relationship between cosmology and theology, to the role of values in understanding science, to the impact…