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is a film and television producer and the founder of Protostellar Media, a science communication production company in Los Angeles, California.

is professor of philosophy and psychology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and author of Regard for Reason in the Moral Mind (2018) and Neuroethics (2023). He writes about moral ...

is an education specialist in philosophy at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia.