Galen Strawson holds the President’s Chair in 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. Strawson taught at the University of Oxford from 1979 to 2000, first as a Stipendiary Lecturer…
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…
Adina Roskies is a Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College. Her areas of specialization include philosophy of science, philosophy of cognitive science, and philosophy of mind. At the University of California, San Diego Roskies concurrently earned an MA in Philosophy and an MS in Neuroscience, and received a PhD in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science in…
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…
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,…
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…
Dean Radin is a researcher and author in the field of parapsychology. He is currently Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), in Novato, California, USA, having joined the IONS research staff in 2001. Since 2016, Radin has also been Associated Distinguished Professor of Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at the California Institute of…
Marilyn Schlitz, Ph.D., is a research scientist, medical anthropologist, and writer on the subjects of consciousness, healing, and consciousness-based healthcare. She is professor and chair of transpersonal psychology at Sofia University. She is also the former President and CEO of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Senior Scientist at the Research Institute of California Pacific Medical…
John Rogers Searle is an American philosopher and currently the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. John Searle began his college education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and in his junior year became a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he obtained all of his university degrees, BA, MA and DPhil.…
Robert Stickgold is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He graduated from Harvard University before attending the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he received his doctorate in biochemistry. A preeminent sleep researcher, Stickgold has dedicated his life to understanding the relationship between sleep and learning.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr is an Iranian University Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University, and a prominent Islamic philosopher. Nasr is a Muslim Persian philosopher and renowned scholar of comparative religion, a lifelong student and follower of Frithjof Schuon, and writes in the fields of Islamic esoterism, Sufism, philosophy of science, and metaphysics. Professor…
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is an American philosopher. He specializes in ethics, moral psychology, neuro-ethics, the philosophy of law, epistemology, the philosophy of religion, and informal logic. He is Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He earned his PhD from Yale University under…