Chiara Marletto is a Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, working at the foundations of physics. Her research spans quantum information theory, quantum biology, condensed-matter physics, and thermodynamics. Together with David Deutsch, she has developed constructor theory — a proposed reformulation of the laws of physics in terms of counterfactuals: what can and…
Zoltan is a philosophy and religious studies graduate of Columbia University. In 2013, Zoltan published The Transhumanist Wager, an award-winning fictional thriller describing philosopher Jethro Knights and his unwavering quest for immortality via science and technology. Zoltan writes futurist and transhumanist-themed Op-Eds for various media, including The New York Times, Newsweek, and Wired. Zoltan is…
Silvia Jonas is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bamberg, an external member of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP), and an associated member of the Konstanz Center for Philosophy of Mathematics. She also serves on the board of trustees of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows and is a trusted advisor…
Michel Bitbol is a researcher in the philosophy of physics, the philosophy of knowledge, and the philosophy of mind. He is Director of Research at the CNRS, based at the Husserl Archives, ENS, Paris. Together with Bernard d’Espagnat, Jean Petitot, and Hervé Zwirn, he is a founding member of the Collège de Physique et de…
John A. Dupré is a British philosopher of science. He is the director of Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, and professor of philosophy at the University of Exeter. Dupré’s chief work area lies in philosophy of biology, philosophy of the social sciences, and general philosophy of science. Dupré, together with Nancy…
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…
Philip Kitcher is a British philosopher who is John Dewey Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University. Kitcher is the author of twelve books, including Living with Darwin: Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith; In Mendel’s Mirror: Philosophical Reflections on Biology; and The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities. He was…
Quayshawn Spencer is the Robert S. Blank Presidential Associate Professor of Philosophy and Undergraduate Chair at the University of Pennsylvania. Spencer received his Ph.D. in philosophy and his M.S. in biology at Stanford, and he completed his B.A. in chemistry and philosophy at Cornell. He specializes in philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, and philosophy…
Alan C. Love, Ph.D., is a professor in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. He also serves as director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science. Love’s research focuses on conceptual issues in biology and has concentrated on evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), developmental biology, molecular biology, and paleontology. He uses…
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…
Derek Turner teaches philosophy at Connecticut College where he is also the Karla Heurich Harrison ’28 Director of the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment. A past winner of the John S. King Award for Excellence in Teaching, Turner is Associate Director of the College’s Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment. He was awarded the 2017 Nancy…