Metaphysics
FEATURED GRANT
Laws of Nature and Religious Presuppositions: Connections between Religious Positions and the Way of Accounting for Natural Order
Dr. Lydia Jaeger, Directrice des études (Academic Dean)
Institut Biblique de Nogent (Nogent-sur-Marne France)
This grant supported research into selected philosophers of science and cosmologists of note in the contemporary debate about the laws of nature, and the place occupied by religion in the discussion about laws of nature in philosophy of science. The research has been published as Croire et Connaitre: Einstein, Polany, et les Lois de la Nature (Excelsis 2005).
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Sample Grants
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Award Date |
Grant Amount |
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- Philosophy Talk - Radio Show
John Perry, Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
Stanford University (Stanford CA) Ken Taylor, Professor and Chair
Department of Philosophy
Stanford University (Stanford CA)
- This project includes 13 episodes of the "Philosophy Talk" radio program and the promulgation of the episodes via the web, podcasts, and transcripts. Programs will include philosophers, scientists, and theologians addressing big questions about infinity, emergence, free will, faith and reason, altruism, and mind/body dualism.
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September 2007 |
$122,365 |
- Life, The Universe, Everything - And More
Professor Richard D. Mohr
Department of Philosophy
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Urbana IL)
- The conference grant, looking at many philosophical, theological and scientific aspects of Plato's 'Timaeus', brings together an international list of speakers from a range of disciplines. Key scientists and philosophers include Sir Anthony Leggett, Sean Carroll, Alexander Nehamas and Julia Kristeva. Parmenides Publishing has agreed to publish the proceedings and JTF funds support less than 20% of the total cost.
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January 2007 |
$12,000 |
- Science, Theology, and the Ontological Quest
His Eminence Paul Cardinal Poupard, President
Pontificium consilium De Cultura (Vatican City Italy) Professor Gianfranco Basti, Philosophy of Nature and Science
Faculty of Philosophy
Pontifical Lateran University [IRAFS] (Vatican City Italy) Monsignor Melchor Sanchez de Toca Alameda, Head of Section
Pontifical Council for Culture (Vatican City Italy)
- These grant supported Science, Theology, and the Ontological Quest [STOQ], a project of the Pontifical Council for Culture and the Pontifical universities in Rome. This project allows the Vatican Universities to contribute to the Science and Religion dialogue with more specific attention paid to its ontological and metaphysical implications. Currently, six Pontifical universities are participating: Lateran University; Gregorian University; Regina Apostolorum University; St. Thomas Aquinas University; Salesian University; and Holy Cross University.
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April 2003 |
$1,002,414 |
