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Anthony Aguirre is Associate Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz. He is Co-Founder and Associate Scientific Director of The Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi; see www.fqxi.org). Aguirre received his PhD in Astronomy in 2000 from Harvard University.
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Anthony Clifford Grayling is an English philosopher who founded and became the first Master of New College of the Humanities, an independent undergraduate college in London.
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