Project Directors

Philip Goff is a philosopher and consciousness researcher at Durham University, UK. He spends most of his time trying to work out the ultimate nature of reality, focusing on the themes of consciousness and panpsychism, the purpose of the universe, the mystery of psycho-physical harmony, value objectivity, against scientism, and religion and politics. He also has a podcast called Mind Chat, which he co-hosts with Keith Frankish, a popular philosopher with the polar opposite political view to him. He has published Consciousness and Fundamental Reality (Oxford University Press), Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness, and one co-edited collection of essays by scientists, philosophers, and spiritual thinkers, Is Consciousness Everywhere? Essays on Panpsychism.

Andrei A. Buckareff (Ph.D., University of Rochester) is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Cognitive Science Program at Marist College. His research currently focuses on metaphysical problems in the philosophy of action and the philosophy of religion. He has published chapters in various collections and articles in numerous leading journals, including Canadian Journal of Philosophy, International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, Philosophical Studies, Religious Studies, Synthese, and elsewhere. He has co-edited five collections, including, most recently, with Yujin Nagasawa, Alternative Concepts of God: Essays on the Metaphysics of the Divine (Oxford University Press, 2016) and, with Carlos Moya and Sergi Rosell, Agency, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015).