| Simon Blackburn Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge; Research Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina; President, Aristotelian Society. Publications include: Essay in Quasi-Realism (1993), Think (1999), Being Good (2001), Lust (2004), Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed (2005), Plato’s Republic: A Biography (2006), and How to Read Hume (2008). |
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Patricia Smith Churchland Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego; Adjunct Professor, Salk Institute; Past President, American Philosophical Association, Past President, Society for Philosophy and Psychology; MacArthur Prize (1991), Rossi Prize (2008). Publications include: Neurophilosophy (1986), The Computational Brain (1992, with T.J. Senjnowski), On The Contrary (1998, with Paul Churchland), Brain-Wise (2002), and Braintrust (forthcoming). |
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| Sam Harris Co-founder and CEO of Project Reason; Author of The New York Times bestsellers The End of Faith (2004) and Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), and The Moral Landscape (2010); 2005 PEN Award Winner for Nonfiction; co-founder and CEO of Project Reason. Publications also include work in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Times (London), The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Annals of Neurology. |
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| Lawrence Krauss Foundation Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration; Professor of Physics; Director, ASU Origins Project; Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative; Associate Director, Beyond Center, Arizona State University. Publications include: The Physics of Star Trek (1996), Quintessence (2001), Atom (2002), Hiding in the Mirror (2005), and Quantum Man: Richard Feynman’s Life in Science (forthcoming 2011). |
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| Steven Pinker Harvard College Professor, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University; Two-time Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Publications include: The Language Instinct (1994), How the Mind Works (1997), The Blank Slate (2002), The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (2007). (photo: Rebecca Goldstein) |
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| Peter Singer Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University; Laureate Professor, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne. Publications include: Animal Liberation (1975), The Expanding Circle (1981), Practical Ethics (1993), How Are We to Live? (1995), Rethinking Life and Death (1995), The Ethics of What We Eat (2006, with Jim Mason), The Life You Can Save (2009). (photo:Denise Applewhite/Princeton University) |
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