Alex O’Connor, also known as CosmicSkeptic, is an English podcaster and YouTuber. He hosts the Within Reason podcast, on which he has interviewed figures including Richard Dawkins, David Deutsch, Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, and Slavoj Žižek. O’Connor began posting videos to YouTube as a teenager and studied philosophy and theology at St John’s College, Oxford,…
Michael James is a leading scholar and translator of the teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi (1879–1950), whose method of self-investigation (ātma-vicāra) has profoundly influenced the modern understanding of non-dual philosophy. James first encountered Ramana’s teachings in 1976 while travelling through India. He soon settled in Tiruvannamalai, where he spent twenty years studying under Sri…
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…
James J. Hughes is a sociologist, bioethicist and futurist. He is the executive director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and is the Associate Provost for Institutional Research, Assessment, and Planning, at University of Massachusetts Boston. Hughes holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Chicago, where he served as the assistant…
Dr. Clément Vidal is a philosopher with a background in logic and cognitive sciences. He is co-director of the ‘Evo Devo Universe’ community and founder of the ‘High Energy Astrobiology’ prize. To satisfy his intellectual curiosity when facing the big questions, he brings together many areas of knowledge such as cosmology, physics, astrobiology, complexity science,…
Dr. Joseph A. Corabi is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. He earned his Ph.D. from Rutgers University and specializes in metaphysics and epistemology. His scholarly work delves into topics such as consciousness, personal identity, and the philosophical implications of artificial intelligence.
Lucia Melloni leads the Neural Circuits, Consciousness, and Cognition Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt, and holds a position as Research Professor in the Department of Neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Melloni’s research is pioneering in the field of consciousness, seeking to unravel the complexities of human…
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…
Jean-Pierre Changeux is a French neurobiologist known for his research in several areas of biology, from the structure and function of proteins (particularly allosteric proteins), to the early development of the nervous system, and up to cognitive functions. Famous in the biological sciences for the Monod-Wyman-Changeux model, he is also recognised for the identification and…
Markus Gabriel is a German philosopher. After dedicating his doctoral thesis to the German idealist Schelling, he went on to teach at the New School for Social Research in New York, at the University of Bonn, and at Berkeley, California. A specialist in the theory of knowledge and contemporary philosophy, he advocates the idea of…
Fr. Philip Larrey, Ph.D., is a Catholic priest and professor of philosophy at Boston College. He previously held the Chair of Logic and Epistemology at the Pontifical Lateran University in the Vatican, where he also served as Dean of the Philosophy Department. Larrey’s scholarly work focuses on the philosophy of knowledge, critical thinking, and the…