Ned Block is Silver Professor of Philosophy with appointments in Psychology and Neural Science at NYU. Ned came to NYU in 1996 from MIT where he was Chair of the Philosophy Program. He works in philosophy of perception and foundations of neuroscience and cognitive science. He is author of The Border Between Seeing and Thinking (2022) and Consciousness, Function, and Representation: Collected Papers, Volume 1 (2007), editor of Readings in Philosophy of Psychology, Volumes 1 and 2 (1983; 2014), and co-editor of The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates (1997), among other works. He is co-director of the NYU Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness.

✉️ ned.block@nyu.edu

Sam Bowman is Associate Professor of Linguistics, Data Science, and Computer Science at NYU and, during a 2022–2023 sabbatical, a member of technical staff at Anthropic. His research focuses on developing techniques and datasets for use in controlling and evaluating large language models, and additionally on applications of machine learning to scientific questions in linguistic syntax and semantics. He is the senior organizer behind the GLUE and SuperGLUE benchmark competitions, and his work has been funded by the US NSF (including through a CAREER award), Google, Apple, Samsung, Schmidt Futures, and Open Philanthropy, among others.

✉️ bowman@nyu.edu

David Chalmers is University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at New York University. He is the author of The Conscious Mind (1996), Constructing the World (2010), and Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy (2022). He co-founded the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and the PhilPapers Foundation. He is known for formulating the “hard problem” of consciousness, which inspired Tom Stoppard’s play The Hard Problem, and for the idea of the “extended mind,” which says that the tools we use can become parts of our minds.

✉️ chalmers@nyu.edu

Becca Franks is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Director of the Animal Studies M.A. Program, and Co-Director of the NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program at NYU. She was previously a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow with the Animal Welfare Program at UBC, where she was awarded the Killam Research Prize. Her research and teaching lie at the intersection of environmental and animal protection, specializing in animal behavior, aquatic animal welfare, quantitative methods, and human-animal relationships. She also co-edited a special issue for the journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science and is an Associate Editor for the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

✉️ beccafranks@nyu.edu

Joshua Lewis is Assistant Professor of Marketing at New York University. His research focuses on decisions that have important implications for wellbeing, such as philanthropists deciding which cause to tackle, politicians deciding which policy to adopt, or scientists deciding whether to publish potentially dangerous findings. Current research questions include why people neglect catastrophic risks, why people neglect high stakes outcomes with low probabilities, and why people are intolerant of uncertainty in altruistic decisions. His work has been published in leading journals such as Psychological Science and Journal of Experiment Psychology: General.

✉️ joshua.lewis@nyu.edu

S. Matthew Liao is Arthur Zitrin Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Center for Bioethics at NYU. Matthew uses the tools of philosophy to study and examine the ramifications of novel biomedical innovations. He is author of The Right to be Loved (2015), editor of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (2020) and Moral Brains: The Neuroscience of Morality (2015), and co-editor of Current Controversies in Bioethics (2016) and Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights (2015), along with numerous articles. He is also a TED speaker and has been featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and numerous other media outlets.

✉️ matthew.liao@nyu.edu

Claudia Passos-Ferreira is Assistant Professor of Bioethics at NYU. She previously held postdoctoral positions at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the State University of Rio de Janeiro. She has published a book on Freud and mental causation, has published on self-knowledge, introspection, and external mental content, and has collaborated in cross-cultural research on moral development and social cognition (on topics such as empathy, fairness, ownership, and intersubjectivity). She is the PI of the project What do theories of consciousness predict about consciousness in animals, infants, and machines? funded by Templeton World Charity Foundation.

✉️ claudiapassos@nyu.edu

César Rodríguez-Garavito is Professor of Clinical Law and Chair of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law. He is the Editor in Chief of Open Global Rights, and the Founding Director of the Earth Rights Advocacy and the Future of Rights programs at NYU Law. He has published widely on global governance, international human rights, climate litigation, comparative constitutionalism, Indigenous rights, and the rights of nature. His most recent book is Litigating the Climate Emergency: How Courts, Human Rights,

and Legal Mobilization Can Bolster Climate Action (ed. Cambridge University Press, 2022).

✉️ cesar.rodriguez@nyu.edu

Katrina Wyman is the Wilf Family Professor of Property Law at NYU School of Law, where she teaches and researches in the areas of Property, Urban Environmental Law, and Natural Resources Law, among other subjects. Wyman is co-faculty director of NYU Law’s Frank J. Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law, and faculty director of the Law School’s LLM program in Environmental and Energy Law. Wyman also runs an annual reading group on animal law, which addresses topics like animal farming, nonhuman personhood, and animal welfare regulations. Wyman was awarded the Podell Distinguished Teaching Award in 2020. She has a BA, MA, and LLB from the University of Toronto, and an LLM from Yale Law School.

✉️ katrina.wyman@nyu.edu