Sample Grants
Grant Title Award Date Grant Amount
 
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.
 August 2003 $9,500
Cognitive Neuroscience and Spiritual Realities

Revd. Dr. Fraser Watts, Starbridge Lecturer in Theology and Natural Science
Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies
University of Cambridge (Cambridge UK)

This grant supported a pilot research program in cognitive neuroscience and spiritual realities. The program consisted of three topics: religious cognition; gratitude; and mind and brain as aspects of human nature. This research included projects on human spiritual qualities, scientific and theological perspectives on the human person, and cognitive/neuroscience approaches to the understanding of God.
 January 2004 $186,015
Becoming Human: Brain, Mind, and Emergence Conference

Dr. William B. Hurlbut, Consulting Professor
Neuroscience Institute

This grant supported the conference on Brain, Mind and Emergence, as part of a three-year series of interdisciplinary faculty seminars and public lectures at Stanford on the theme "Becoming Human." Conference resources are being compiled for publication.
 January 2003 $198,000
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