Daniel C. Dennett, Ph.D., the author of Breaking the Spell (Viking, 2006), Freedom Evolves (Viking Penguin, 2003) and Darwin’s Dangerous Idea (Simon & Schuster, 1995), is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He received his B.A. in philosophy from Harvard in 1963. He then went to Oxford to work with Gilbert Ryle, under whose supervision he completed the D.Phil. in philosophy in 1965. He taught at U.C. Irvine from 1965 to 1971, when he moved to Tufts, where he has taught ever since, aside from periods visiting at Harvard, Pittsburgh, Oxford, and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Patricia Smith Churchland, Ph.D., is a Canadian-American philosopher working at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) since 1984. She is currently chair of the UCSD Philosophy Department, an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and an associate of the Computational Neuroscience Laboratory (Sejnowski Lab) at the Salk Institute. She won a MacArthur prize in 1991. Educated at the University of British Columbia, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Oxford (B.Phil.). She taught philosophy at the University of Manitoba from 1969 to 1984 and is the wife of philosopher Paul Churchland.  Her work has focused on the interface between neuroscience and philosophy.

Marc D.Hauser, Ph.D., received a BS from Bucknell University and a PhD from UCLA. Currently, Hauser is a Harvard College Professor, and Professor in the Departments of Psychology, Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, and Biological Anthropology. He is the co-director of the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Program at Harvard, Director of the Cognitive Evolution Lab, and adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of Education and the Program in Neurosciences. Hauser’s research sits at the interface between evolutionary biology and cognitive neuroscience and is aimed at understanding the processes and consequences of cognitive evolution.

Richard Granger, Ph.D., received his Bachelor’s and Ph.D. degrees from MIT and Yale, and is Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and of Computational Science at Dartmouth College, as well as Director of Dartmouth’s multidisciplinary Brain Engineering Laboratory. He is the author of more than 100 scientific papers and patents, including the recently released book “Big Brain” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), and he serves on the boards of a number of technology corporations and government research agencies. Prof. Granger is a recipient of many awards and honors, including election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

James V. Haxby, Ph.D., is the Evans Family Distinguished Professor and a Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College, where he also directs the Brain Imaging Center and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. He came to Dartmouth from Princeton University, where he was a Professor in the Department of Psychology since 2003. Previously, he was section chief for the Section on Functional Brain Imaging at the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Md. His Ph.D. is from the University of Minnesota.

William M. Kelley, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and the principal investigator for the Brain Imaging Lab at Dartmouth College. He received his Ph.D. from Washington University in 1999. His research uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to gain a better understanding of human memory formation, focusing on how different types of information, such as words (verbal) or unfamiliar faces (non-verbal), are encoded into long-term memory. A related focus is the use of imaging techniques to explore how memory formation may be compromised as a result of damage to certain brain regions.

Adina Roskies, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth and an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Sydney. She earned an M.A. in Philosophy and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Neuroscience from University of California, San Diego. Roskies completed a postdoctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroimaging at Washington University and served as the Senior Editor of neuroscience journal Neuron from 1997-1999. She then received a second Ph.D., in Philosophy, from MIT. Her philosophical research interests include philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and ethics.

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Ph.D., is a Professor of Philosophy and the Hardy Professor of Legal Studies at Dartmouth, as well as Co-Director of the MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Project. He received his Ph.D., M.Phil., and M.A. from Yale University and a B.A. from Amherst College.  His research interests include ethics, philosophy of law, epistemology, and informal logic. Currently he is working on moral psychology and brain science, as well as the uses and implications of neuroscience for legal systems.

Paul Whalen, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College and the principal investigator of the Whalen Lab. His doctoral training in Physiological Psychology (at the University of Vermont with Bruce Kapp) comprised studies of the physiology and anatomy of the amygdala in animal subjects. His postdoctoral training (at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital with Scott Rauch) involved a respecialization in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). His current research focuses on a better understanding of the neural substrates of biologically-relevant learning in the human, using the human amygdala as a model system for such learning.