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…
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…
Nick Bostrom is a Swedish-born philosopher with a background in theoretical physics, computational neuroscience, logic, and artificial intelligence, as well as philosophy. He is the most-cited professional philosopher in the world under the age of 50. He is a Professor at Oxford University where he heads the Future of Humanity Institute as its founding director.…
Mark Balaguer is Professor of Philosophy, California State University, Los Angeles. His research interests are in philosophy of mathematics and language. Mark’s major book is Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics. He received his PhD Philosophy from City University of New York Graduate Center. Balaguer describes mathematics as follows: “Mathematics is very different from what you…
Jesse Couenhoven is a Professor of Theology at Villanova University. He earned his Bachelor’s in psychology at Oberlin College, a Master’s degree in historical theology from Yale Divinity School, and a PhD from Yale’s Religion Department. Couenhoven has published articles on Barthian, Augustinian, and feminist theologies of sin and grace, freedom, natural law, virtue ethics,…
David Z Albert, PhD, is Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy and Director of the MA Program in The Philosophical Foundations of Physics at Columbia University in New York. He received his BS in physics from Columbia College (1976) and his doctorate in theoretical physics from The Rockefeller University (1981) under Professor Nicola Khuri. Afterwards…