Rik Peels holds a university research chair in analytic and interdisciplinary philosophy of religion at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is also a senior research associate at the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. His research interests are the ethics of belief, ignorance, scientism, fundamentalism, and extremism. He leads the Extreme Beliefs research group (www.extremebeliefs.com), and he is a member of the Adapt Academy, which studies how societies can better adapt to crises. Naomi Kloosterboer is an independent researcher and founder of Radicaal Luisteren (Radical Listening; www.radicaalluisteren.

nl). She was a postdoc at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands as part of the ERC-funded project Extreme Beliefs: The Epistemology and Ethics of Fundamentalism. Her research connects (feminist) epistemology, ethics, and moral psychology. Her current work focuses on practices of listening, such as the role listening should play in fostering democratic practices and diminishing polarization. She also works on issues concerning values, responsibility, and self-knowledge. Chris Ranalli is assistant professor of philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He works in epistemology and at the intersection of philosophy of mind and value theory. His current research examines the social, political, and ethical dimensions of belief, especially skepticism, doubt, and the value of knowledge.

He is the author of The Philosophy of Indoctrination: Epistemology, Ethics, and Politics (2024). He earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Edinburgh and has held research positions at the University of Cologne and UNAM in Mexico City.