Laura Snyder

Concerned citizen, Educator/Teacher, Explorer, Global soul, Idea generator, World traveler, Writer/Editor

Laura J. Snyder's book The Philosophical Breakfast Club: Four Remarkable Friends who Transformed Science and Changed the World was an Official Selection of the TED Book Club, a Scientific American Notable Book, and winner of the 2011 Royal Institution of Australia Poll for Favorite Science Book. Snyder is Professor of Philosophy at St. John's University in New York City and writes frequently about science and ideas for The Wall Street Journal. She is a Fulbright Scholar, a Life Member of Clare Hall College, Cambridge, and Past President of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science. Snyder is also the author of Reforming Philosophy: A Victorian Debate on Science and Society. She is currently working on a book about how new optical technologies in the 17th century revolutionized not only science, but also art and the rest of culture.

Men and women in the past whose ideas and actions transformed the world; historical works that transport me back in time to teach me about both past and present; others who share these passions.