Daniel Clement Dennett III was an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist. He was most recently Professor Emeritus at Tufts University. Dennett was a firm atheist and secularist, a member of the Secular Coalition for America advisory board, as well as an outspoken supporter of the Brights movement. Dennett was referred to as one of…
Willem Bernard Drees is professor of philosophy of the humanities at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. From 2008 until 2018 he was the editor-in-chief of Zygon, Journal of Religion & Science and professor of philosophy of religion at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Drees has been the editor or co-editor of twenty books, published more than…
Victoria Harrison is Associate Dean of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Macau, China. Harrison moved to Macau in 2016 from the University of Glasgow, where she had been Reader in Philosophy and Director of the Forum for Philosophy and Religion. Her research interests focus on analytic philosophy of religion…
Paul Davies is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and astrobiologist. He is Regents’ Professor of Physics and Director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University, where he also runs a cancer research project and co-directs a cosmology program. His research ranges from the origin of the universe to the origin…
Anthony Clifford Grayling is an English philosopher who founded and became the first Master of New College of the Humanities, an independent undergraduate college in London. Grayling is a former Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he taught from 1991. He is also a supernumerary fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford. Grayling…
William Albert Dembski is an American philosopher and theologian. He is currently the Philip E. Johnson Research Professor in Culture & Science at the Southern Evangelical Seminary at Matthews, North Carolina, and a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. Dembski is the author of a number of books about intelligent…
Peter Forrest teaches the areas of Epistemology and Metaphysics at the University of New England. He works in the area of the philosophy of physics, epistemology, the philosophy of religion, and other issues in metaphysics and epistemology. He is an editor of The Australasian Journal of Philosophy. His first academic appointment was a Senior Tutor…
John Hawthorne is the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the Magdalen College of Oxford University. He is primarily known for his work in metaphysics and epistemology; his 2006 collection Metaphysical Essays offers original treatments of fundamental topics in philosophy, including identity, ontology, vagueness, and causation. Hawthorne has also written on philosophy of language and…
Warren S. Brown is founder and previous director of the Lee Edward Travis Research Institute at the Fuller Theological Seminary and Professor of Psychology in the Graduate School of Psychology. He is also a previous member of the UCLA Brain Research Institute. Brown received his doctorate in Experimental Physiological Psychology from the University of Southern…
David Chalmers is a philosopher at New York University and the Australian National University. He is Professor of Philosophy and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at NYU, and also Professor of Philosophy at ANU. Chalmers works in the philosophy of mind and in related areas of philosophy and cognitive science. He…
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…
Ned Block is an American philosopher working in the field of the philosophy of mind who has made important contributions to matters of consciousness and cognitive science. Ned Block, Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science, came to NYU in 1996 from MIT where he was Chair of the Philosophy Program. He works in…