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Catalyzing a New Science of Virtue: A Request for Proposals Research Initiative
- Project Leader(s)
Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the Divinity School, and Department of Political Science and the Committee on International Relations
University of ChicagoDon S. Browning, Alexander Campbell Professor Emeritus of Ethics and the Social Sciences
Divinity School
University of ChicagoHoward Nusbaum Chair, Department of Psychology
University of Chicago- Grantee(s)
University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
- Description
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This initiative to stimulate innovative scientific research about the nature and potential of human virtue is administered by the Arete Initiative at the University of Chicago. The program is designed to encourage the development of a science of virtue as a new field of scholarly and scientific inquiry, taking as its central question, In what ways might the sciences and humanities collaborate to develop more adequate models of virtue for modern societies?
- Grant Amount:
- $4,194,780
- Start Date:
- January 2009
- End Date:
- January 2012
- Grant ID:
- 12968
- Grantee Website