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Stephen Braude Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Maryland, Baltimore; former President, Parapscyhological Association
Daniel Dennett Former University Professor, Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University
Joseph LeDoux Henry And Lucy Moses Professor of Science; Professor of Neural Science, Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University
Peter Loewenberg Professor Emeritus of History and Political Psychology, UCLA; former Chair, International Psychoanalytic Association
Michael Merzenich Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Francisco; Kavli Laureate in Neuroscience
John Polkinghorne Professor of Mathematical Physics, President, Queens' College, Cambridge; Anglican priest; Templeton Prize recipient
John Searle Former Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Language, University of California, Berkeley
Bas van Fraassen Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, San Francisco State University; McCosh Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Princeton University
Dean Zimmerman Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Rutgers Center for the Philosophy of Religion, Rutgers University
