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Andrea Hiott

Andrea Hiott is a philosopher and the founder of Making Ways, a private educational consulting platform that works with individuals, businesses and organizations like EMI towards looking into the guiding philosophies at the heart of our lives and actions. Andrea is also an author and educator with advanced degrees in philosophy of mind and neuroscience, technology and heritage. She is the author of various books, including Thinking Small.

https://www.andreahiott.net/

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Barry O'Reilly

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Eric Schwitzgebel

Eric Schwitzgebel is an American professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. His main interests include connections between empirical psychology, philosophy of mind, and the nature of belief, as well as Classical Chinese philosophy. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Elisabeth A. Lloyd, Alison Gopnik, and John Searle. He has run the online blog The Splintered Mind since 2006

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Harry Heft

Prof. Heft has been on the Denison faculty since 1976. His graduate training was in an interdisciplinary program concerning the relationship between psychological processes and the environment. At Denison, he has been a recipient of the Charles A. Brickman Award for Teaching Excellence. He has also been elected as a Fellow in both the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. Dr. Heft serves on the Editorial Boards of the journals “Environment & Behavior” and “William James Studies,” and he is the Book Review Editor for the “Journal of Environmental Psychology.” He teaches courses in environmental psychology, history and systems of psychology, and cultural psychology.
https://denison.edu/people/harry-heft

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Manda Scott

Manda Scott (born 1962)[1] is a former Scottish veterinary surgeon who is now a novelist, blogger, podcaster, columnist and occasional broadcaster. Born and educated in Glasgow, Scotland,[2] she trained at the University of Glasgow School of Veterinary Medicine and now lives and works in Shropshire

https://accidentalgods.life/
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Mark Solms

Mark Solms is a South African neuropsychologist and psychoanalyst known for coining the term "neuropsychoanalysis" and for his research into the brain mechanisms of dreams and consciousness. He holds the Chair of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and has edited the complete psychological and neuroscientific works of Sigmund Freud. Solms' work focuses on bridging the gap between neuroscience and psychoanalysis, arguing that Freud anticipated the eventual reunion of their disciplines and that this union is now possible.

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Michael Levin

Michael Levin is an American developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University, where he is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor.[3] Levin is a director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University and Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology.[3] He is also co-director of the Institute for Computationally Designed Organisms[4] with Josh Bongard.

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Mike Brock

"Ex-tech exec, now a reluctant Cassandra. Penning dispatches from democracy's peril at notesfromthecircus.com. Unmasking the unholy alliance of Silicon Valley and aspiring despots. 2+2=4, even when power insists otherwise."

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Minna Salami

Minna Salami is the author of Sensuous Knowledge. She is a Finnish Nigerian journalist and owner/editor of the website MsAfropolitan.com, which she created in 2010 to write on themes "ranging from polygamy to feminism to relationships".[1] She was also a regular contributor to The Guardian[2] and contributed two articles to Aljazeera.com.[3] She is a member of the Global Educator Network of Duke University, the Africa Network and The Guardian Books Network

https://msafropolitan.com/bio

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Rebecca Todd

Rebecca Todd is an Associate Professor in UBC’s Department of Psychology and a member of the Centre for Brain Health working in the area of Cognitive Neuroscience. She is currently a CIHR New Investigator (2016) and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar (2017). Before beginning her PhD in Developmental Science and Neuroscience at University of Toronto, Dr. Todd was a contemporary dance choreographer and journalist. As both a choreographer and a cognitive neuroscientist, she has been interested in how emotion influences attention, learning and memory.

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Sabina Leonelli

Sabina Leonelli is a philosopher of science and technology renowned for pioneering work in the philosophy of data and open science. As a professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), she directs the Ethical Data Initiative and leads the PHIL_OS project, which develops empirically grounded frameworks for open science in under-resourced research environments. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges high theory with participatory, on-the-ground research—exemplified by her ethnographic collaborations with biologists and data scientists.

https://www.turing.ac.uk/people/researchers/sabina-leonelli

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