Evan Balkcom

Evan Balkcom is originally from the US and currently a PhD candidate in psychology and science communication at the University of Otago. His main area of focus is the cognitive science of religion. Specifically, researching the differences between religious and non-religious people and the way that unbelief develops and is maintained in light of religious intuitions and unexplainable experiences. Evan is also interested in irrational decision making, especially the sort that is driven by essentialist beliefs and moral contagion.

 

Jamin Halberstadt

Jamin Halberstadt received his B.A. in philosophy from Swarthmore College, and his Ph.D. in social cognition at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is currently a full professor and incoming Head of Department at the University of Otago, in Dunedin, New Zealand. His eclectic research interests include emotion and decision making, social categorization and aesthetics, religious cognition, and “in vivo behavioral tracking,” a methodology he pioneered to permit the experimental study of large groups in unfettered contexts (e.g., a sports stadium). He has authored and co-authored over 100 articles and book chapters and is currently a Senior Editor at Psychological Science, the field’s premier outlet for empirical research.

 

Hany Moubarez

 

Yagoubi Mahmmoud

Mahmmoud Yagoubi is a professor of philosophy and logic at the university of Algeria.

 

Moussa Fatahine

Moussa Fatahine is a professor of philosophy and logic at the university of Khemis-Miliana in Algeria.

 

Hamdi Mlika

 

Regula Forster

Regula Forster studied German, Arabic, and philosophy. She earned her PhD from the University of Zurich with a thesis on the pseudo-Aristotelian Secretum secretorum. After having served as junior and associate professor of Arabic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, she joined the University of Tübingen as full professor of Islamic history and culture in 2020.

 

David Fisher

David Fisher is the Executive Director of The Moral Injury Institute of Washington state (www.themoralinjuryinstitute.com). His research interests are moral injury, depth psychology and its applications to other socio-economic fields, and archetypal analytics. He lives in Washington State.

 

Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Law, Administration, and Economics at the University of Wroclaw and an affiliated scholar and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ludwig von Mises Institute Poland. He holds an MA in philosophy from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in political economy from King’s College London. He is the author of The Economics of Law, Order, and Action: The Logic of Public Goods, Libertarian Quandaries, and The Pith of Life: Aphorisms in Honor of Liberty.

 

Igor Wysocki

Igor Wysocki is an independent scholar from Poland. His main interests are moral philosophy, philosophy of economics and political philosophy.