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…
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…
Fr. Michael Baggot is an Associate Professor of Bioethics at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum and an Invited Professor of Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) and the Catholic Institute of Technology. He is also a professor for the Joint Diploma in Leadership: Service through Virtues and the Catholic Worldview…
George Corbett is Professor of Theology in the School of Divinity at University of St Andrews. Prior to joining the School of Divinity in 2015, he held positions as Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy, Trinity College, and Affiliated Lecturer, University of Cambridge, where he taught English literature, Italian literature, and theology. He received his BA…
Carol Zaleski is a Professor of World Religions at Smith College. She is a scholar and writer about religion. She is a columnist and editor-at-large for Christian Century, and has contributed articles and reviews to The New York Times, First Things, America, Second Spring, Nova et Vetera, Communio, Parabola, The Journal of Religion and The Journal of the History of Ideas. Zaleski previously…
Dr. Andrew Ter Ern Loke is a Singaporean Christian theologian and philosopher. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University and an elected Fellow of the prestigious International Society for Science and Religion He has made contributions to the fields of Systematic Theology, Science and Religion,…
David Cheetham is a philosophical theologian researching a range of topics including the relations between religions, contemporary philosophical theology, and theology and the arts. He is currently a Professor of Philosophical Theology at the University of Birmingham and Co-Director of the Birmingham Centre for the Philosophy of Religion. Following doctoral studies on the work of…
Imran Aijaz is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. His research focuses primarily on analytic philosophy of religion and Islamic philosophy. Across these two areas, he is especially interested in the topics of faith and reason, religious epistemology, religious diversity, and religious pluralism. He also has an interest in ancient philosophy…
Swami Medhananda is a monk of the Ramakrishna Order and an academic philosopher, currently serving as Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Vedanta Society of Southern California in Hollywood. He is also the Hindu Chaplain at both UCLA and the University of Southern California. He is Section Editor for the International Journal of Hindu…
Swami Sarvapriyananda (Pre-Monastic name Biswarup Mitra) is a Hindu monk belonging to the Ramakrishna Order. He is the current resident Swami and head of the Vedanta Society of New York, a position he has been serving since 2017. Sarvapriyananda joined the Ramakrishna Math in 1994 and received sannyasa in 2004. He served as an acharya…