Science, Philosophy, and Belief

Katherine Blundell

Katherine Blundell is a Professor of Astrophysics at Oxford University, a University Research Fellow of the Royal Society and a Science Research Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford. Before this she was a Research Fellow of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 and before that she was a Research Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. She is co-author of Concepts in Thermal Physics (Oxford University Press) which covers kinetic theory, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and applications in astrophysics, atmospheric physics, information theory and many other areas.

Susan P. Bratton

Susan P. Bratton is Chair of Environmental Studies at Baylor University. She earned her Ph. D. in Plant Ecology from Cornell University. Bratton specializes in environmental ethics, forest ecology, and management of parks and natural areas. She is the author of Six Billion and More: Human Population Regulation and Christian Ethics, and Christianity Wilderness and Wildlife: The  Original Desert Solitaire.

Gerald Gabrielse

Gerald Gabrielse is George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics, Harvard University. Prof. Gabrielse leads the international ATRAP Collaboration whose goal is accurate laser spectroscopy with trapped antihydrogen atoms. He was awarded the 2002 Davisson-Germer Prize by the American Physical Society for his pioneering work on matter and antimatter.  In 2004, he received Harvard’s George Ledlie Prize for his scientific accomplishment of creating and observing antimatter atoms — a prize awarded every two years to someone affiliated with the University who “has by research, discovery or otherwise made the most valuable contribution to science, or in any way for the benefit of mankind.”

William Phillips

William Phillips is a leading researcher in ultra-low temperature atomic physics at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Atomic Physics Division. He also serves as a University Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland. Phillips was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997 for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light. His research on manipulating atoms with laser light has led to more accurate atomic clocks and a more fundamental understanding of light-matter interactions.

Alvin Plantinga

Alvin Plantinga is the John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Warranted Christian Belief; Warrant and Proper Function; God, Freedom & Evil; and The Nature of Necessity.  In 1980, Plantinga was described by Time magazine as “America’s leading philosopher of God.”

Eleonore Stump

Eleonore Stump is The Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. Prof. Stump’s many publications include The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas, The Cambridge Companion to Augustine, and Aquinas in the series “Arguments of the Philosophers.”  Among other honors, she is past president of the Society of Christian Philosophers, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and the American Philosophical Association, Central Division.