Elliott R. Sober is Hans Reichenbach Professor and William F. Vilas Research Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has served as the president of both the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association and the Philosophy of Science Association. He was president of the International Union of History and…
Mohammed Saleh Zarepour is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Manchester. He is on the editorial boards of Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, Religious Studies, and AGATHEOS. He was an associate member and earlier a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Global Philosophy of Religion Project at the…
Alexander Rosenberg (who generally publishes as “Alex”) is an American philosopher and novelist. He is the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy at Duke University with secondary appointments in the biology and political science departments. He is also co-director of Duke’s Center for the Philosophy of Biology. Rosenberg is well known for contributions to philosophy…
Carol Edith Cleland is an American philosopher of science and a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder. She holds affiliations with the NASA Astrobiology Institute, the SETI Institute, and the CU Boulder Center for Astrobiology. Cleland is known for her work on the definition of life and the shadow biosphere, on the…
Massimo Pigliucci is an Italian-American philosopher and biologist who is professor of philosophy at the City College of New York. He is a critic of pseudoscience and creationism, and an advocate for secularism and science education. Prof. Pigliucci has a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Connecticut and a PhD in Philosophy from…
Yang Xiao 蕭陽 has been teaching in the Department of Philosophy at Kenyon College since 2003. Xiao received a master’s degree in philosophy at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, and a Ph.D. at the New School for Social Research in New York. He was a visiting student at Wolfson College at Oxford University…
Rachell Powell is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Boston University and Director of the Center for Philosophy and History of Science. Prior to her appointment at BU, Dr. Powell was an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellow in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University, and a James Martin Research Fellow at…
Samir Okasha FBA, is a Professor of Philosophy of Science at University of Bristol. He was appointed a Fellow of the British Academy in 2018. Okasha is a winner of Lakatos Award for his book Evolution and the Levels of Selection. From 2008 to 2011, he was Principal Investigator on a major AHRC-funded research project,…
Frank Perkins’ work addresses common philosophical issues by drawing resources across different cultural traditions. Many of his research interests center around globalizing philosophy of religion. He is the author of Heaven and Earth are not Humane: The Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy, which gives a history of early Chinese philosophy in terms of…
Tao Jiang’s primary research interest is classical Chinese philosophy, Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophy (Madhyamaka and Yogācāra), and cross-cultural philosophy. He is currently the director of the Rutgers Center for Chinese Studies. He is the author of Contexts and Dialogue: Yogācāra Buddhism and Modern Psychology on the Subliminal Mind (Hawaii), the translator of A Guided Tour of the Collected Works…
Jay Lazar Garfield is a professor of philosophy who specializes in Tibetan Buddhism. He is currently Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities at Smith College, professor of philosophy at the University of Melbourne, visiting professor of philosophy and Buddhist studies at Harvard Divinity School, and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the Central University of Tibetan…
Elisabeth Schellekens is the Chair Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. Aside from running the department’s aesthetics section, with its popular BA and MA programs and busy research culture, she is also the Director of Studies for doctoral studies at the department. Her research interests include the aesthetics of non-perceptual objects,…