Alister Edgar McGrath FRSA is an Irish theologian, Anglican priest, intellectual historian, scientist, and Christian apologist. He is Professor Emeritus of Science and Religion and Emeritus Fellow of Harris Manchester College at the University of Oxford. He holds three doctorates from the University of Oxford: a DPhil in Molecular Biophysics, a Doctor of Divinity in…
Christof Koch is an American neuroscientist best known for his work on the neural bases of consciousness. He is the President and Chief Scientific Officer of the Allen Institute of Brain Science in Seattle. From 1986 until 2013, he was the Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Biology at The California Institute…
Christopher Isham is a theoretical physicist at Imperial College London. where he is a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, in the Department of Physics His main research interests are quantum gravity and foundational studies in quantum theory. He was the inventor of an approach to temporal quantum logic called the HPO…
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…
Brian Leftow is the William P. Alston Professor for the Philosophy of Religion at Rutgers University. He was formerly the Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at Oriel College, Oxford, succeeding Richard Swinburne, who retired in 2002. Leftow’s scholarship focuses on philosophical theology and metaphysics, such as the relationship between God and…
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,…
The Revd Dr. Rodney Holder was Course Director of the Faraday Institute from its inception in 2006 until 2013, and remains a Bye Fellow of St. Edmund’s College and a Faraday Associate. Holder read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and researched for a DPhil in astrophysics at Christ Church, Oxford. He remained at Oxford for…
Paul Davies is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and astrobiologist. He is currently 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. Davies’ 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…
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…
Charles L. Harper Jr. is former Executive Director and Senior Vice President of the John Templeton Foundation. Harper was originally trained in engineering at Princeton University, where he earned his BSE, and went on to obtain his DPhil in planetary science from the University of Oxford for a thesis on the nature of time in…
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…