George Francis Rayner Ellis is the Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Complex Systems in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He co-authored The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time with University of Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking, published in 1973, and is considered one of the world’s leading…
Oliver D. Crisp holds the Chair of Analytic Theology in the Logos Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology in the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Previously, he taught at Fuller Theological Seminary (2011-2019) in Los Angeles, and the University of Bristol (2006-2011) in England. He specializes in philosophical, systematic, and historical theology. He received a…
David Hunt was a Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Whittier College in Whittier, CA. He earned a BA from Pomona College and a PhD from Vanderbilt University. His academic interests included Ancient and Early Medieval Philosophy (especially Plato, Plotinus, and Augustine), Metaphysics, Action Theory, and the Philosophy of Religion. Hunt…
Dirk Evers is Professor for Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. He is President of The European Society for the Study of Science and Theology. He is also an ordained minister of the German Lutheran Church. Evers studied Protestant theology at the universities of Münster and Tübingen and at the Tamilnadu…
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…
Thomas Flint is a retired Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, where he focuses on issues in philosophical theology and metaphysics. His book, Divine Providence, makes the case for a Molinist account of God’s knowledge—i.e., God has so-called “middle knowledge” of what free agents would do in any circumstance—thereby reconciling divine foreknowledge…
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…
William Lane Craig is an American analytic philosopher and Christian theologian. He is known for his work in the philosophy of religion, philosophy of time, and the defense of Christian theism. He is notable for reviving interest in the Kalām cosmological argument with his 1979 publication of The Kalām Cosmological Argument, an argument for the…
Andrei A. Buckareff is a Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. His research focuses on metaphysical and epistemological issues in Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion. Before Marist, he spent two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department…
Mike Almeida is Professor of Philosophy and chair of the Department of Philosophy and Classics at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He works primarily in metaphysics, philosophy of religion and ethical theory. He is the author of The Metaphysics of Perfect Beings and many articles in philosophy of religion, ethics, and metaphysics. Before…
Simon Walter Blackburn is an English academic philosopher known for his work in metaethics, where he defends quasi-realism, and in the philosophy of language; more recently, he has gained a large general audience from his efforts to popularise philosophy. He retired as professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge in 2011, but remains a distinguished research professor…
Philip Clayton is Ingraham Professor at Claremont School of Theology. His previous teaching posts include Williams College and the California State University. Clayton received a joint doctorate in philosophy and religious studies from Yale University. Since that time he has written or edited some 24 books and close to two hundred articles. He has also…