The Shape of Dialogue Creators & Guests

Erec Smith is an Assistant Professor of English and Writing at York College of Pennsylvania.

Executive Director of Street Epistemology International.

An English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.Dawkins first came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term meme. With his book The Extended Phenotype (1982), he introduced into evolutionary biology the influential concept that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment. In 2006, he founded the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science.

Lawrence Krauss is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist who is a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University.

Jewher Ilham is a human rights activist.

Dr. Steven Pinker is a cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author. He is also known for his advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.

Helen Joyce is a staff journalist at The Economist since.