ED BOYDEN is a professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at the MIT Media Lab and the MIT McGovern Institute. He leads the Synthetic Neurobiology Group. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/ed_boyden-how-the-brain-is-computing-the-mind
DAVID REICH is a geneticist and professor in the Department of Genetics at the Harvard Medical School. He is the author of Who We Are and How We Got Here . The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/david_reich-the-genomic-ancient-dna-revolution
RICHARD NISBETT is a professor of psychology and co-director of the Culture and Cognition Program at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking ; and The Geography of Thought . The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/richard_nisbett-the-crusade-against-multiple-regression-analysis...
GLORIA ORIGGI is a researcher at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and a journalist. She is a best-selling novelist in the Italian language, a respected philosopher in French, a cognitive scientist in English, and the person you want to sit next to at a dinner party. Her latest book, La Reputation , was recently published in France. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/gloria_origgi-what-is-reputation...
JAMIL ZAKI is an assistant professor of psychology at Stanford University and the director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/jamil_zaki-choosing-empathy
PHILIP E. TETLOCK , Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of Expert Political Judgment and (with Aaron Belkin) Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics , and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of Superforecasting: The Art & Science of Prediction . Class V Part I: https:...
PHILIP E. TETLOCK , Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of Expert Political Judgment and (with Aaron Belkin) Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics , and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of Superforecasting: The Art & Science of Prediction . Class V Part II: https...
PHILIP E. TETLOCK , Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of Expert Political Judgment and (with Aaron Belkin) Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics , and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of Superforecasting: The Art & Science of Prediction . Class IV Part II: http...
PHILIP E. TETLOCK , Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of Expert Political Judgment and (with Aaron Belkin) Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics , and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of Superforecasting: The Art & Science of Prediction . Class III Part II: htt...
PHILIP E. TETLOCK , Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of Expert Political Judgment and (with Aaron Belkin) Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics , and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of Superforecasting: The Art & Science of Prediction . Class III Part I: http...
PHILIP E. TETLOCK , Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of Expert Political Judgment and (with Aaron Belkin) Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics , and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of Superforecasting: The Art & Science of Prediction . Class II Part II: http...
PHILIP E. TETLOCK , Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of Expert Political Judgment and (with Aaron Belkin) Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics , and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of Superforecasting: The Art & Science of Prediction . Class II Part I: https...
PHILIP E. TETLOCK , Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of Expert Political Judgment and (with Aaron Belkin) Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics , and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of Superforecasting: The Art & Science of Prediction . Class I Part I: https:...
PHILIP E. TETLOCK , Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of Expert Political Judgment and (with Aaron Belkin) Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics , and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of Superforecasting: The Art & Science of Prediction . Class I Part II: https...
JOHN MARKOFF is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who covers science and technology for The New York Times . His most recent book is the forthcoming Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/john_markoff-the-next-wave
PRIYAMVADA NATARAJAN is a professor in the Departments of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University, whose research is focused on exotica in the universe—dark matter, dark energy, and black holes. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/priyamvada_natarajan-the-exquisite-role-of-dark-matter
SEAN CARROLL is a research professor at Caltech and the author of The Particle at the End of the Universe , which won the 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize, and_ From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time_. He has recently been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Gemant Award from the American Institute of Physics, and the Emperor Has No Clothes Award from the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/sean_carroll-layers-of-reality...
DAVID CHRISTIAN is Professor of History, Macquarie University, Sydney; Author, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History . The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/david_christian-we-need-a-modern-origin-story-a-big-history
PETER COVENEY holds a chair in Physical Chemistry, and is director of the Centre for Computational Science at University College London and co-author, with Roger Highfield, of The Arrow of Time _and _Frontiers of Complexity . The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/peter_coveney-popper-versus-bacon
RICHARD DAWKINS is an evolutionary biologist; Emeritus Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science, Oxford; Author, The Selfish Gene ; The Extended Phenotype ; Climbing Mount Improbable ; The God Delusion ; An Appetite For Wonder ; and (forthcoming) A Brief Candle In The Dark . The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/richard_dawkins-this-is-my-vision-of-life...
JAAN TALLINN is a co-founder of The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at University of Cambridge, UK as well as The Future of Life Institute in Cambridge, MA. He is also a founding engineer of Kazaa and Skype. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/jaan_tallinn-existential-risk
YUVAL NOAH HARARI , Lecturer, Department of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind . DANIEL KAHNEMAN is the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 2002 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2013. He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Princeton, and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow . The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/yuval_noah_harari-daniel_kahneman-death-is-optional...
NEIL GERSHENFELD is a Physicist and the Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms. He is the author of FAB . The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/neil_gershenfeld-digital-reality
CHIARA MARLETTO is a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College and Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Materials Department, University of Oxford; Currently working with David Deutsch. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/chiara_marletto-formulating-science-in-terms-of-possible-and-impossible-tasks...
MARGARET LEVI is the Director of the Center For Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is the Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies at the University of Washington. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/margaret_levi-entwined-fates
NAOMI EISENBERGER is a professor in the Social Psychology Program at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is director of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory as well as co-director of the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/naomi_eisenberger-social-pain
RICHARD PRUM is an evolutionary ornithologist at Yale University, where he is the Curator of Ornithology and Head Curator of Vertebrate Zoology in the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/richard_prum-duck-sex-aesthetic-evolution-and-the-origin-of-beauty
MATTHEW D. LIEBERMAN is a professor of psychology at UCLA. He is the author of Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect . The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/matthew_d_lieberman-latitudes-of-acceptance
JONATHAN GOTTSCHALL is a Distinguished Research Fellow in the English Department at Washington & Jefferson College. He is the author or editor of six books, including The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human (a _New York Times _Editor’s Choice Selection and a finalist for the _LA Times _Book Prize). The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/jonathan_gottschall-the-way-we-live-our-lives-in-stories...
STEVEN PINKER is the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He is the author of ten books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Better Angels of Our Nature , and_ The Sense of Style_ (September). The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/steven_pinker-writing-in-the-21st-century...
