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Paul Thagard is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo. His writings in the philosophy of medicine includes the book How Scientists Explain Disease (Princeton University Press, 2000), several articles on mental illness, and work in progress on balance disorders.

Jim Tabery is Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah. His research focuses largely on the philosophy of science and applied ethics, as well as the intersection between those domains.

Beckett Sterner is an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University. His research focuses on the question: “When and why is mathematics useful for biology?”

Adrian Stencel is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Jagiellonian University Kraków, Poland. His research is mainly in the philosophy of biology, with strong interests in the conceptual and foundational issues surrounding the theory of evolution, population biology and microbiology.

Jacob Stegenga is a Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on methodological problems of medical research, conceptual questions in evolutionary biology, and fundamental topics in reasoning and rationality. He recently published the book Medical Nihilism (2018, OUP).

Brian Skyrms is a Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science and Economics at the University of California, Irvine and a Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. Most recently, he has worked on the evolution of conventions and the social contract. Other research interests include inductive logic, decision theory, rational deliberation, and Truth.

Robert Skipper is Professor of Philosophy at University of Cincinnati. His research focus has been mainly on the origin and development of evolutionary genetics. Other interests include environmental ethics, bioethics, and epistemology.

Derek Skillings is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Previously, he was a Post-doctoral fellow in Philosophy of Biology at ImmunoConcept.