Wesley Wildman

Wesley J. Wildman (born 1961) is a contemporary Australian-American philosopher, theologian, ethicist, and computational social scientist. He is dually appointed as a full professor at Boston University, in the School of Theology and in the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences (where he is an Inaugural Duan Family Faculty Fellow). He is founding co-editor of the journal Religion, Brain & Behavior (published by Taylor & Francis). A nonprofit entrepreneur since 2007, he is founder, past executive director, and current chief scientist at Just Horizons Alliance, which describes itself as "a nonprofit research and innovation platform that equips people and institutions to lead with clarity, courage, and compassion in moving humanity towards a more just and hopeful future."
As a philosopher of religion, Wildman's scholarly work has focused on interpreting religious and non-religious worldviews and lifeways, and building theories of beliefs, behaviors, and experiences that acknowledge va...