Philosophy & History of Science
FEATURED GRANT
Templeton Research Fellows: Philosophy-Physics Project on the Nature of Quantum Reality
Professor Anton Zeilinger, Chair
Institut für Experimentalphysik
Universität Wien (Wien Austria)
This
grant sponsors residential fellowships at an active physics laboratory for young
scholars interested in the interaction between the disciplines of physics, philosophy,
and philosophical theology. Each year, a philosopher or philosophically
informed scientist will join the Vienna Quantum Physics Group, led by
Professor Zeilinger, as a residential fellow.
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Sample Grants
| Grant Title |
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 |
- Science and Religion: Historical and Contemporary Perpsectives
Professor Thomas Dixon Department of History Lancaster University (Lancaster UK)
- This project includes a July 2007 symposium and resultant book publication marking the retirement of Oxford historian of science John Hedley Brooke. The event includes contributions by historians, philosophers, theologians, and scientists.
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Octoboer 2006 |
$99,078 |
- Contextualizing Issues in Science and Religion
Donald A. Yerxa, Ph.D., Assistant Director Editor, Historically Speaking The Historical Society (Boston MA)
- Support for eleven forums that explore the historical context of specific issues in science and religion. These forums, which are published in Historically Speaking: The Bulletin of the Historical Society, seek to correct specific past historical errors that have impeded progress in science and religion.
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December 2004 |
$113,145 |
- Is Nature Enough? Meaning and Truth in the Age of Science
Professor John F. Haught, Distinguished Research Professor of Theology Founder and Director Center for the Study of Science & Religion Georgetown University (Washington DC)
- This grant supported research and writing of a book on the nature of Nature. Cambridge University Press published Is Nature Enough? Meaning and Truth in the Age of Science in 2006.
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August 2004 |
$52,500 |
- 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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September 2003 |
$28,094 |