B. Scot Rousse (“B”)'s substack, "Without Why," focuses on what it means to be alive in an age of intelligent machines. He is philosopher in residence at Topos Institute and visiting scholar in Philosophy at Berkeley. He also drums in 3 punk bands.

Elena Clare Cuffari is Professor of Psychology and Scientific and Philosophical Studies of Mind at Franklin and Marshall College.

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

Professor of Philosophy emerita at Geneva College, in Western Pennsylvania.

A professional philosopher, author and speaker, Esther offers her own distinctive, down-to-earth, approach to the philosophical matters that ground and permeate our lives: humanness, meaning, reality, knowing.
The book Andrea and Esther discuss here is Loving to Know.
Link here to Esther’s work and books: https://www.estherlightcapmeek.com

Evan Thompson is a philosopher and professor at the University of British Columbia.

Hanne De Jaegher is a philosopher of mind and cognitive science. She investigates theoretical, methodological, epistemic, and phenomenological issues.

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

Iain McGilchrist is a British psychiatrist, philosopher, and literary scholar known for his influential work on the divided brain, particularly his books The Master and His Emissary. And The Matter with Things.

Janet Levin is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Southern California, where she was a longtime faculty member in the School of Philosophy. Her research focuses on epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of psychology. She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from MIT and her B.A. from the University of Chicago. Levin holds that our feelings and experiences are nothing over and above physical processes in the body, primarily the brain

and central nervous system

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Much of her work engages with one of the hardest problems in philosophy: how to account for the subjective, felt quality of conscious experience within a broadly physicalist framework. She has also written the entry on functionalism for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — the view that what makes something a mental state depends not on its physical makeup, but on the functional role it plays in a larger system.

Julian Kiverstein is Assistant Professor of Neurophilosophy at the University of Amsterdam. He is currently writing a monograph for Palgrave Macmillan entitled The Significance of Phenomenology, and editing a comprehensive handbook for Routledge Taylor Francis on the philosophy of the social mind.

Karl Friston is a theoretical neuroscientist and authority on brain imaging. He invented statistical parametric mapping (SPM), voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and dynamic causal modelling (DCM). This work was motivated by schizophrenia research – formulated as the dysconnection hypothesis.

Kevin Kelly is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine and a former editor and publisher of the Whole Earth Review. He has also been a writer, photographer, conservationist, and student of Asian and digital culture.

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

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.

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.

"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."

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

Philip Ball is a British science writer based in London. Born in 1962, he trained as a chemist at the University of Oxford and earned his PhD in physics from the University of Bristol. He spent more than twenty years as an editor at Nature, and now writes as a freelance author and broadcaster, contributing regularly to publications like Nature, New Scientist, Prospect, The Guardian, and Chemistry World, and presenting Science Stories on BBC Radio 4. Ball has written more than two dozen books spanning chemistry, physics, biology, music, art, and the history and philosophy of science. He has received the Institute of Physics' Kelvin Medal (2019), the American Chemical Society's Grady–Stack Award (2006), and the Royal Society's Wilkins–Bernal–Medawar Medal (2022) for contributions to the history, philosophy, and social roles of science.

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.

Rupert Read is an environmental philosopher, public intellectual, and the founder and current director of the Climate Majority Project.

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.

Triple nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for her work with Oxford Research

Group to develop effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policy-makers

worldwide and their critics from 1983-2003. Founded Peace Direct in 2002,

awarded the Niwano Peace Prize in 2003, the Luxembourg Peace Prize in 2020, the GOI Peace Award in 2023. Founded The Business Plan for Peace  based on her latest books - The Business Plan for Peace: Building a World Without War (2017), The Mighty Heart: how to transform conflict (2020), and The Mighty Heart in Action (2022).

Shay Welch is a professor at Spelman College in Atlanta.

Thomas Metzinger ia a Professor Emeritus at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and a member of the German National Academy Leopoldina. He has worked mainly in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and applied ethics, particularly focusing on neurotechnology, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence.