Mind & Intelligence
The Foundation serves as a philanthropic catalyst for research that seeks to advance the scientific understanding of the nature of mind and intelligence. Currently, the Foundation welcomes proposal from within the fields of neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, computer science and formal symbolic logic. We also welcome proposals that explore the nature of mind and intelligence within the disciplines of philosophy, consciousness studies, and philosophical theology. The Foundation is hopeful that our range of funding initiatives may catalyze a conceptual or scientific breakthrough on the unresolved "big question" within this domain of inquiry: "What is mind?"
FEATURED GRANT
Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?: Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility
Professor Warren S. Brown, Director
Lee Edward Travis Research Institute
Professor Nancey Murphy
School of Theology
This grant supported research on the philosophical and neurobiological perspectives on moral responsibility. The co-PIs have written Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?, a manuscript that draws on philosophical arguments and neurobiological research in order to undermine neurobiological reductionism and to defend robust concepts of mental causation and human freedom. The manuscript will be published by Oxford University Press in 2007.