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…
Raymond C. Tallis is a a retired physician and neuroscientist from Great Britain. His resume boasts titles like philosopher, poet and novelist. He is also a member of the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Royal College of Physicians and Royal Society of Arts. Upon graduating from Liverpool College, Tallis gained an Open Scholarship to Keble…
Victor J. Stenger (1935–2014) was a retired elementary particle physicist. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Newark College of Engineering and later a Master of Science degree and PhD in physics from UCLA. He then took a position on the faculty of the University of Hawaii, retiring to Colorado in…
David Shatz is the Ronald P. Stanton University Professor of Philosophy, Ethics, and Religious Thought at Yeshiva University and editor of The Torah u-Madda Journal, a journal devoted to the interaction between Judaism and general culture. Shatz has edited, co-edited, or authored fifteen books and has published over eighty articles and reviews, dealing with both…
Galen Strawson is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin’s College of Liberal Arts. He studied at the University of Cambridge before receiving his BPhil and DPhil in philosophy from the University of Oxford. Professor Strawson taught at the University of Oxford from 1979–2000, where he was a Fellow of Jesus…
Alva Noë is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. The main focus of his work is the theory of perception and consciousness. In addition to these problems in cognitive science and the philosophy of mind, he is interested in phenomenology, the theory of art, Wittgenstein, and the origins of analytic philosophy. He…
Barry C Smith is a professor of philosophy and Director of the Institute of Philosophy at University of London. He has held visiting professorships at the University of Califonia at Berkeley and the Ecole Normale Superiéure in Paris. Smith is a philosopher of language and mind who has published on self-knowledge, linguistic knoweldge, consciousness, the…
Robert John Russell is founder and Director of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS). He is also the Ian G. Barbour Professor of Theology and Science in Residence at the Graduate Theological Union (GTU). He has written and edited a great deal on possible scientific mechanisms for the beliefs of Christianity. Russell…
Quentin Persifor Smith was an American philosopher. He was professor emeritus of philosophy at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He worked in the philosophy of time, philosophy of language, philosophy of physics and philosophy of religion. He worked on the philosophy of time, philosophy of religion, naturalism and atheism, philosophy of Big Bang cosmology,…
Schäfer was a quantum chemist in the University of Arkansas’ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and was the first researcher to use analytical derivatives in systematic geometry optimizations to augment electron diffraction results. Schäfer was born in Dusseldorf, Germany to Ernst and Sybille Schäfer, well-known butchers in the area. Despite their encouragement to pursue the…
The Rev. John Charlton Polkinghorne was an English theoretical physicist, theologian, writer, and Anglican priest. He was professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Cambridge for 11 years, after which he resigned his chair to study for the priesthood, becoming an ordained Anglican priest. He served as the president of Queens’ College, Cambridge for…
Henry Stapp is an American physicist, known for his work in quantum mechanics, particularly the development of axiomatic S-matrix theory, the proofs of strong nonlocality properties, and the place of free will in the “orthodox” quantum mechanics of John von Neumann. Stapp earned a BS in Physics from the University of Michigan, and an MA…