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Dean Bavington is an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Environmental History at Nipissing University.
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Ruth Hubbard is a professor emerita of biology at Harvard University. She has written on the politics of health care since the early 1970s.
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James Lovelock is an English scientist, author, researcher, environmentalist, and futurist. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, in which he states that the Earth functions as a kind of superorganism.
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Simon Schaffer is a professor of the history and philosophy of science at Cambridge University and edits The British Journal for the History of Science.
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Sajay Samuel is a professor in the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University. His work on science and common sense stems from a conversation many years ago with Ivan Illich.
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Mary Midgley is an English moral philosopher who taught at Newcastle University and is best known for her work on ethics and animal rights.
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Wendell Berry is an American academic, cultural and economic critic, farmer and prolific author of novels, short stories, poems, and essays.
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Bernie Lucht has been the executive producer of Ideas since 1984. He is also the executive producer of Tapestry, the Sunday afternoon program of religious and spiritual exploration. Born and raised in Montreal, he earned a BA from Concordia University in 1966. That same year, he joined the CBC as a producer for Radio-Canada International, and in 1969 went on to produce Cross-Country Checkup. Later that year, Lucht left for West Africa to work as a CUSO volunteer teacher in rural Nigeria. He returned to Canada in 1971, starting work as a production assistant at Ideas, then rising to become the programs executive producer in 1984. Under his direction, Ideas has won many national and international awards.
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Arthur Zajonc is a professor of physics at Amherst College in Massachusetts and an anthroposophist.
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Lorraine Daston is an American historian of science, is the executive director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin, and holds a visiting professorship in The Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
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Brian Wynne is a Professor of Science Studies and Research Director of the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change. He is also a member of the London Royal Society’s Committee on Science in Society.
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Richard Lewontin is an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and social commentator, who developed theories on the mathematical basis of population genetics and evolutionary theory.
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Silya Samerski teaches at the Department of Sociology at the University of Hanover and has worked on the language used by geneticists as well as the idea of pop genes.
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Bruno Latour is a French sociologist of science, anthropologist and a theorist of Science and Technology Studies. He is now Professor and vice-president for research at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris.
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Andrew Pickering is a sociologist and historian of science at Exeter University. He has written extensively on the sociology of science. He is currently working on a book on the social history of cybernetics.
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Rupert Sheldrake is a former biochemist and plant physiologist who now researches in many areas including animal and plant development .
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Margaret Lock is the Marjorie Bronfman Professor in Social Studies in Medicine, and teaches at the Department of Social Studies of Medicine and the Department of Anthropology at McGill University. A cultural anthropologist with a particular interest in an anthropology of the body in health and illness, much of her research has taken place in Japan and North America.
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David Abram is an American philosopher and cultural ecologist and the founder and creative director of the Alliance for Wild Ethics (AWE).
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Ian Hacking is a Canadian philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of science. Hacking was appointed visiting professor at University of California, Santa Cruz for the Winters of 2008 and 2009.
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Nicholas Maxwell is a philosopher specializing in the idea that academics should promote the acquisition of wisdom and not just knowledge. He taught philosophy of science at University College London for 30 years and founded Friends of Wisdom.
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Dr. Ulrich Beck is a German sociologist who holds a professorship at Munich University and at the London School of Economics and, in addition to having published many books, is the editor of the sociological journal Soziale Welt.
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Lee Smolin is an American theoretical physicist, a researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and a professor of physics at the University of Waterloo, best known for devising several approaches to quantum gravity.
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Barbara Duden has been on the faculty of the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Pennsylvania State University and is at the Institute for Cultural Studies, Essen, Germany.
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Allan Young is a professor of anthropology in the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University working in on the ethnography of psychiatric science.
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