Emergence
Within this core theme, the Foundation's philanthropic vision is to support rigorous scientific research and scholarship that has the potential to catalyze a conceptual and theoretical breakthrough on the nature of emergence. We seek to support a wide spectrum of scientific and scholarly research, ranging from the fields of physics, chemistry, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, mathematics, logic, and linguistics to philosophical and theological accounts of emergence.
FEATURED GRANT
Stanford Emergence Project: Pursuing Knowledge of God in a Scientific Age
Professor Philip Clayton
(currently at) Harvard Divinity School (Cambridge MA)
This grant supported initial collaborations for research, publishing, and subsequent grant proposals at Stanford and the University of California Berkeley in the area of emergence and panentheism. Local and international research consultations on emergence laid groundwork for ongoing cross-disciplinary collaboration. Professor Clayton wrote Mind and Emergence: From Quantum to Consciousness (Oxford University Press, 2005) during the course of this grant, and co-edited The Re-Emergence of Emergence: The Emergentist Hypothesis from Science to Religion (Oxford University Press, 2006) with Professor Paul Davies.
| Grant Title | Award Date | Grant Amount |
|---|---|---|
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January 2003 | $198,000 |