Voices of today

Actor, writer and broadcaster; outspoken atheist and humanist, patron of Humanists UK

Clinical psychologist who reads myths and the Bible as maps of meaning; author of 12 Rules for Life

Comedian and outspoken atheist; talks about God, death, meaning and animal rights.

Astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium, host of Cosmos and StarTalk

British particle physicist, presenter of Wonders of the Universe and The Infinite Monkey Cage

Essayist and debater, author of God Is Not Great, one of the Four Horsemen of the new atheism

Popularised Zen, Taoism and Vedanta in the West; the ego as an illusion

Author who argues consciousness, not matter, is the base of reality; mind-body health

Evolutionary biologist, author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion

Neuroscientist and author: atheism, free will as illusion, a science of morality, meditation

Indian yogi and founder of Isha Foundation; says life has no meaning and belief is not knowing

Slovenian philosopher mixing Hegel, Lacan and Marx; ideology, the subject, "Christian atheism"

Historian of Sapiens and Homo Deus: shared fictions, no free will, suffering as the one real thing.

British creator of Philosophy Tube: theatrical video essays that teach philosophy for free.

AI researcher and podcaster who hosts long conversations on science, God, consciousness and meaning

American streamer and debater who says he does not believe in objective right and wrong.

Harvard psychologist: human nature is real, violence is falling, reason and science drive progress.

Philosopher of science: a theory is scientific only if it could be proven false; defender of the open society

British YouTuber (CosmicSkeptic) and host of Within Reason; agnostic atheist who debates God and ethics.

Theoretical physicist, author of A Universe from Nothing, host of The Origins Podcast

Author who brought Stoicism to a wide public: The Obstacle Is the Way, The Daily Stoic

Philosophy for everyday life; The School of Life; religion for atheists

Utilitarian ethicist: animal liberation, duty to help the distant poor, effective altruism

Oxford mathematician who argues that science and belief in God fit together; debated Dawkins and Hitchens.

Philosopher of mind: consciousness as brain process, compatibilist free will, religion as natural

New Testament scholar who went from evangelical faith to agnosticism over the problem of suffering.

Canadian apologist who defends the reliability of the Bible and the resurrection; went viral after Joe Rogan.

Stanford neuroscientist; argues in 'Determined' (2023) that free will does not exist

Catholic bishop and founder of Word on Fire; explains God through Aquinas and speaks with unbelievers.

Author of the simulation argument and of 'Superintelligence'; thinks about humanity's long-term future.

Philosopher of beauty, music and the sacred; argued that beauty is a real value, not mere taste.

Pastor who has answered students' questions on faith in open-air dialogues on campuses since 1979.

Capabilities approach to justice; philosopher of emotions, anger and animal justice

Physicist and YouTuber; hard determinist, critic of beauty-driven physics, author of 'Existential Physics'

Christian philosopher who defends the kalam argument and debates atheists; founder of Reasonable Faith.

Christian apologist, author of 'I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist'; founder of CrossExamined.

Led the Human Genome Project and the NIH; former atheist turned Christian, author of 'The Language of God'

Theoretical physicist, host of the Mindscape podcast, defender of poetic naturalism and Many Worlds

British Muslim debater and author; defends God's existence with the contingency argument from Ibn Sina.

Named the 'hard problem' of consciousness; argues virtual worlds are real.

Harvard's "Justice" course; critic of Rawls, of market thinking, of meritocracy and of designer children

Cognitive scientist; argues evolution hid reality from us and that consciousness is fundamental

American atheist debater, long-time host of The Atheist Experience; former Baptist who asks for evidence.

Catholic Answers apologist; debates atheists and hosts the podcast The Counsel of Trent.

Panpsychist philosopher: consciousness is fundamental; defends cosmic purpose.