Robin Le Poidevin is Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Leeds whose interests include the nature and experience of time, agnosticism, and philosophy of religion. He joined the Department of Philosophy at Leeds after a year as Gifford Research Fellow at St Andrews and having completed postgraduate studies at both Oxford and Cambridge, obtaining…
Michio Kaku is an American theoretical physicist, the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics in the City College of New York of City University of New York, a futurist, and a communicator and popularizer of science. He has written several books about physics and related topics; he has made frequent appearances on radio, television, and…
Stuart Alan Kauffman is an American theoretical biologist and complex systems researcher who studies the origin of life on Earth. Kauffman graduated from Dartmouth in 1960, was awarded the BA (Hons) by Oxford University (where he was a Marshall Scholar) in 1963, and completed a medical degree (MD) at the University of California, San Francisco…
Alister Edgar McGrath FRSA is an Irish theologian, Anglican priest, intellectual historian, scientist, and Christian apologist. He is Professor Emeritus of Science and Religion and Emeritus Fellow of Harris Manchester College at the University of Oxford. He holds three doctorates from the University of Oxford: a DPhil in Molecular Biophysics, a Doctor of Divinity in…
Rodolfo R. Llinás is a Colombian neuroscientist and currently the Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Chairman of the Department of Physiology & Neuroscience at the NYU School of Medicine. He attended the Gimnasio Moderno school and received his MD from the Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá and his PhD from the Australian National University…
Christof Koch is an American neuroscientist best known for his work on the neural bases of consciousness. He is the President and Chief Scientific Officer of the Allen Institute of Brain Science in Seattle. From 1986 until 2013, he was the Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Biology at The California Institute…
Abraham (Avi) Loeb is an American/Israeli theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics and cosmology. Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. He serves as Chair of the Harvard Astronomy department and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Loeb was born…
Hubert Lederer Dreyfus is an American philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley researching phenomenology, existentialism and the philosophy of psychology and literature. Dreyfus is known for his exegesis of Martin Heidegger, which critics labeled “Dreydegger”. Many of his students have gone to do work on themes related to…
John Harwood Hick was a philosopher of religion and theologian. In philosophical theology, he made contributions in the areas of theodicy, eschatology, and Christology, and in the philosophy of religion he contributed to the areas of epistemology of religion and religious pluralism. Hick initially pursued a law degree at the University of Hull, but converted…
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is an American philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual. She is the author of 10 books of acclaimed fiction and non-fiction, including The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us (2026), 36 Arguments for the Existence of God, Betraying Spinoza, and Plato at the Googleplex. She holds a PhD…
Freeman John Dyson was a British-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum electrodynamics, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering. Dyson was a member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and lived in Princeton, New Jersey, for over fifty years. Dyson was also a member…
John Richard Gott III is a Professor of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University who is noted for his contributions to cosmology and general relativity. During his high school years, he won several science fair awards, including the prestigious Westinghouse Talent Search. Twenty years later, he became the chairman of the Judges of this same competition.…