Alex Rosenberg is the author of five historical novels, three non-fiction trade books and more than a dozen academic titles in philosophy. He holds a distinguished chair in philosophy at Duke University, where he teaches courses across a range of subjects from biology to economics and public policy. Alex has been a visiting professor at universities from Oxford to the Australian National University as well as a permanent faculty member in several American and Canadian universities. He has won several distinguished national and international awards in philosophy, including the Guggenheim fellowship, The Lakatos Award in philosophy of science and the Phi Beta Kappa Romanell lectureship. His op/eds have appeared in the New York Times and other publications. Alex’s historical novels are all thrillers, linking the dots of real history into webs of danger, intrigue, espionage and mystery. His non-fiction brings contemporary science face to face with the human search for meaning in the world.