Dr. Serene Khader is Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center and holds the Jay Newman Chair in Philosophy of Culture at Brooklyn College. She is a moral and political philosopher working primarily on feminist issues in global justice. She is the author of Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop. More»
Dr. Jessica Flanigan is the Richard L. Morrill Chair in Ethics and Democratic Values at the University of Richmond, where she teaches Leadership Ethics, Ethical Decision Making in Healthcare, and Critical Thinking. Her research addresses the ethics of public policy, medicine, and business. She is the author of several books, including Debating Sex Work (together with Lori Watson), where she defends the decriminalization of sex work. More»
Dr. Roy Richard Grinker is Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at the George Washington University. Dr. Grinker is a cultural anthropologist specializing in ethnicity, nationalism, and psychological anthropology, with topical expertise in autism, Korea, and sub-Saharan Africa. He is also the director of GW's Institute for Ethnographic Research. He is the author of Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness. More»
Dr. Sophie Scott-Brown is a Research Fellow at the University of St. Andrews. She is also Founder of the Everyday Democracy project with Open Society Foundation. She is well-known for her historical work on left-wing politics, especially the post-war British left. She is the author of The Radical Fifties: Activist Politics in Cold War Britain. More»
Dr. Chris Ranalli is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at VU Amsterdam. His research is primarily in epistemology. He is the author of The Philosophy of Indoctrination: Epistemology, Ethics, and Politics. More»
Dr. Timothy Winegard is Associate Professor of History at Colorado Mesa University. Dr. Winegard teaches classes in the fields of Military History, Indigenous Studies, Global Civilizations, and North American History. Dr. Winegard is a New York Times bestselling author of six books, including The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator. More»
Dr. Paul Thagard is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Cognitive Science Society, and the Association for Psychological Science. The Canada Council awarded him a Molson Prize (2007) and a Killam Prize (2013). He is a philosopher, cognitive scientist, and author of many interdisciplinary books, the latest one being Dreams, Jokes, and Songs: How Brains Build Consciousness. More»
Dr. Nicole Rust is Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. What in the brain drives answers to the question, “Have you seen this before?” or “How happy are you right now?”. While different in many ways, memory and mood are both forms of learning that happen continuously throughout our lives. To understand how the brain supports these mysterious functions, her lab combines investigations of human behavior, measurements and manipulations of neural activity, and computational modeling. She is the author of Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders―and How We Can Change That. More»
Dr. Uljana Feest is a Professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Hannover. She is a philosopher of science who specializes in the philosophy and history of the behavioral sciences (psychology, social science, cognitive science). She is particularly interested in the epistemological challenges that arise in those fields, and she addresses these challenges by analyzing observational and experimental practices and scientific methodologies. She is the author of Operationism in Psychology: An Epistemology of Exploration. More»
Dr. Steven Hollon is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University. His primary interest lies in the etiology and treatment of depression in adults. His work extends from basic psychopathology to prevention and treatment. He is particularly interested in the relative contribution of cognitive and biological processes to depression, and how the relative efficacies of psychosocial versus pharmacological interventions compare. More»
