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Pascal Boyer Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis
Daniel Dennett Former University Professor, Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University
Jay Garfield Professor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne; Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities, Smith College
Bertram Malle Professor of Psychology, Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University