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Human Agency: Genetics, Epigenetics, Philosophy, and Complex Behavior

Small Moments, Big Impact: Supporting Maternal Empathy by Adding Media to Child Health Services

Aspects of Religious Experiences: Investigations from Science, Philosophy, Theology, and Religious Studies

New Frontiers in Astronomy and Cosmology

Exemplar Interventions to Develop Character

Reflecting on the Laws of Life: A Systems Evaluation Planning Project and Process Evaluation

James Gregory Lectures on Science, Religion and Human Flourishing

Intellectual Virtues Academy High School

Formal approaches to philosophy of religion and analytic theology

Universe 2.0: Or How to Create Your Own Cosmos

The Development of Forgiveness

Progress at the Interface of Philosophy and Behavioral Genetics

Two new grants aim to unravel the essence of hope & optimism

Some people are unflappable optimists. The gambler who just knows that the next roll will be a winner. The patient diagnosed with cancer who is sure he can beat it. Or the Cubs fan who knows that this year is the year. What makes us hopeful? When is optimism reasonable? Are hope and optimism good for us? Through two grants from the John Templeton Foundation, sociologists, philosophers, and scientists are seeking to explain precisely what constitutes hope and optimism, to probe what makes us hopeful and optimistic, and to discern when and where they are good for us. With support…

Templeton Granteesto Speak on Scienceat the Vatican

Early life, exoplanets, CRISPR — and a papal audience Several scientists and scholars connected to the John Templeton Foundation will present on topics including cosmology and the origins of life at the Vatican next week, sharing insights from their fields in a conference intended to bring visibility to groundbreaking work in the sciences. On Nov. 12-14, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences will convene a group of nearly 50 scientists and thinkers at the Vatican’s Casa Pio IV for the Academy’s 2018 plenary session. Titled “Transformative Roles of Science in Society: From Emerging Basic Science toward Solutions for People's Wellbeing,” the…

August 2021: Monthly Grant Report

Recently Approved Grants Public Engagement Mathematics and Physical Sciences Natural Sciences Human Sciences Character Virtue Development Project Title Science, Explored: Radiolab on Science and the Big Questions Establishing a Templeton LSST Early-Career Research Fellowship The Role of Cultural Evolution in Human Understanding Global Flourishing Study: Piloting and Waves 1-5 Validation and Unification of Love Measurement Grantee(s) New York Public Radio LSST Inc Chancellor, Master and Scholars of the University of Oxford Baylor University The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Project Leader(s) Suzie Lechtenburg Jennifer Sokoloski Geoffrey Bird, Caroline Catmur Byron Johnson, Tyler VanderWeele Sara Algoe Amount $1,513,801 $6,970,779…

Is One of Biology’s Perennial Themes Ready For a Fresh Look? Alan Love on the Science of Purpose.

University of Minnesota philosopher Alan Love studies the interplay between philosophy and biology. He is the principal investigator for “Agency, Directionality, and Function: Foundations for a Science of Purpose,” a new three-year, $14.5 million project funded by the John Templeton Foundation. Nate Barksdale, lead writer for the Foundation’s “Possibilities” newsletter, spoke with Love about the project. How do people usually think and talk about purpose in the context of biology? Biologists often use language that imputes agency or goals to living systems and have done this since the time of Aristotle. However, in the last two hundred years, many have…

The Launch of MA & Ph.D. Degrees in Philosophy and the Foundations of Science for Latin America – Phase II

Self-Sabotage Is Undermining Your Future. Here’s How to Conquer It.

Humans aren’t alone in our ability to imagine the future and predict likely outcomes. Research shows that animals from ravens to orangutans plan ahead by setting aside tools for later use. Still, our capacity for future-mindedness extends far beyond that of other species. We can dream about many scenarios that haven’t yet happened—for good or ill. (Seneca: "We suffer more from imagination than from reality.") We can constantly update our predictions of our personal future based on what we observe in the world around us. How we think about the future has significant implications for our decision making, and which…

Conversations with Grantees: Brian Greene

Please note: The information in this article reflects our strategic priorities at the time of writing and may change over time. To confirm our current funding interests, please view our Funding Areas. In this conversation with grantee Brian Greene, professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, he speaks about the discovery of gravitational waves, his work as a string theorist, and the value of exploring reality through different perspectives. He also discusses co-founding the World Science Festival, a forum to engage and inform the public through the wonder of science. “My view is that the best, and most…

Quantum biology and the arrow of time

Jellyfish and migratory birds may help physicists understand the mysterious shift from quantum to classical mechanics Time as we experience it only ever appears to move forward, pointing one-way like an arrow. But at the scale of quantum physics, time is reversible: simple quantum processes, such as a particle scattering through a potential, make just as much sense when viewed forward or backwards through time. We do know, however, that many complex processes are irreversible: they cannot simply be reversed by running the clock backwards. How such irreversible processes emerge from smaller reversible building blocks is not fully understood by…

Monthly Grant Report – September 2019

Recently Approved Grants Human Sciences Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount Are planned analyses more reliable than discoveries? A test of the efficacy of preregistration Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia Bethany Teachman $169,909 From reality to representation: Exploring the role of anxiety as a moderator in the development of beliefs about supernatural powers Trustees of Boston University Kathleen Corriveau, Telli Davoodi $234,800 The Evolutionary Dynamics of Religion, Family Size, and Child Success University of Otago John Shaver, Mary Shenk $2,380,604 Faith and Beliefs of “Nonbelievers” Česká křesťanská akademie, z.s. Tomáš Halík, Pavel Hošek $675,888 The transmission…

Love, Compassion, and Care: Virtue Science and Exemplarity in Real Life and in the Laboratory

Genesis of Genius and Unleashing Its Creative Force: A 40-year Longitudinal Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth

Virtuous AI?: Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Evolution, and Virtue

Mathematics, Dualism, and the Renaissance Revival

Monthly Grant Report – August 2019

Recently Approved Grants Human Sciences Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount Landmark Spirituality and Health Survey Follow-Up: Prediction to Mortality, Mental, and Physical Health Outcomes University of Miami Gail Ironson, Neal Krause $682,144 Promoting Open Inquiry, Viewpoint Diversity, and Constructive Disagreement on American College Campuses and in the Disciplines Heterodox Academy Deb Mashek $2,852,229 Philosophy & Theology Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount Developing Spirituality and Mindfulness Curricula for Next Generation Philanthropic Leaders The Philanthropy Workshop Renee Kaplan, Jennifer Davis $204,284 God and the Book of Nature University of Edinburgh Mark Harris, Sarah Ritchie $2,795,875 How stories…

Constructing Objective Biological Criteria of Health

GIVE BIG: Investigating and fostering generosity in young children

Science and the Big Questions Aggregator Website: Phase 3

Chance, Necessity, and the Origins of Life

Philosophy and Religion Engaged with the Public (PREP Workshops)

Free Will and Alternative God Concepts: New TV Programs for Closer to Truth

Planning Grant for an Online Encyclopaedia of Theology: An Internet Resource for Theology’s Future

A Fractured Universe – Fundamental Physics, Symmetry and Life

Religious Perspectives and Academic Inquiry in Higher Education: For-Credit Course Development at Duke University

Beyond Positivism: Re-Imagining the Social Sciences?

Unbelievable? Bridging the Gap

Krista Tippett on Being Pursues the Big Questions

Planning Grant: A New, Holistic Paradigm for Undergraduate STEM Education: Inspiring Big Questions by Cultivating Virtuous Scientists

#CultivatingCharacter: A Global Movement to Cultivate Character both Online and Off Through Living 24/6

Science and Religion in Spanish Schools

Human Flourishing and Critical Realism in the Social Sciences

The American Society of Islamic Philosophy

Promoting a Morally-rich Culture of Freedom – Engaging Civil Society Leaders in Latin America

Developing the Philosophical Foundations of Cultural Evolutionary Theory and Science: Proposing A Virtual Research Network

Muslim-Science.Com Task Forces Initiative – Answering Big Questions and Shaping Dialogue on Science, Religion, and Society within the Islamic World

Cultivating Curiosity with Life in the Universe Inquiry Lab (LITU)

TNP Academy Community and Scholars Program

The Information-Theoretic Turn in Quantum Foundations

A Philosophical Guide to the Cosmos

St Andrews Fellowships in Science & Religion

New Visions in Theological Anthropology: Engaging with the Behavioral Sciences

Creating a Society for the Study of Cultural Evolution

Markets, Social Entrepreneurship, and Effective Altruism

The Honesty Project: A Planning Grant

Religion/Spirituality and Congestive Heart Failure: Physiological Pathways of Health

Seeking Humanness in Fossils: What Does it Mean and How Do We Know?

Day1 Radio Series: Science & Faith in the 21st Century

Economic and Religious Liberty – Making and Magnifying the Intellectual and Practical Connection for Present and Future Global Catholic Leaders

A New Philosophy of Symmetry: Gauge, Composition, and Empirical Content

Measuring and Assessing Multiple Religious Identities, Affiliations, and Congregational Memberships

Exploring the Informational Transitions Bridging Simple Chemistry and Minimal Life

Reality and Measurement in Algebraic Quantum Theory

‘How Often Have You Felt Like Frolicking?’ New Grant to Expand the Science of Joy

Poets and authors write of it, great religious texts call it forth, Beethoven even composed an ode to it — but what is joy, really? Unlike emotions such as happiness and gratitude, joy is perhaps the last major positive emotion left largely unexplored by contemporary psychology and sociology. But thanks to a new project led by Robert Emmons, professor of psychology at U.C. Davis and a world-leading expert on the science of gratitude, that may begin to change. Working with Philip Watkins of Eastern Washington University and an advisory team of psychologists and big data analysts, Emmons has created a…

Breaking New Ground in Science and Religion

Over the past several decades the field of science and religion has produced a rich body of scholarship concerning the different purposes, methods and epistemologies of these two areas and their modes of interaction. Scholars have also addressed a range of more specific topics such as divine action, the meanings of evolution, fine-tuning, and varied elements of human nature. As productive as it has been, we at the John Templeton Foundation believe the science-religion dialogue has yet to investigate the full range of possibilities. In particular, it has largely been carried out from a perspective that is theistic (usually Christian),…

Luck and Cancer

Expanding and Accelerating Conversations That Inspire Awe and Wonder, Human Flourishing, and Intellectual Humility – on University Campuses and Beyond

Black Hole Initiative Phase 3

Intellectual Humility and Oppression

Religious belief, health, and disease: a family perspective. II. The follow-up and analyses

Political Economy Project

Newly-launched Renovatio magazine addresses big questions for Muslim audiences

With articles and events tied to its second issue, Renovatio magazine is hitting its stride Last spring the inaugural edition of Renovatio, a Muslim journal of ideas published by Zaytuna College in Berkeley, addressed various themes in the field of metaphysics. The investigation of first principles and basic assumptions was an especially appropriate topic for the launch of this new intellectual endeavor. While the first issue sought to find areas of philosophical common ground, especially among religious believers, the journal’s second issue, published this past fall, examined how we can promote harmony and tolerance when that common agreement can’t be…

Courts&Canons: A platform that uses digital tools to uncover the theological foundations of Islamic law, and to examine evolving Islamic values

Muslim perspectives on wellbeing: A vital contribution to a more global understanding of wellbeing

Série Investigação Filosófica: improving knowledge and philosophical competences of Brazilian researchers and students

Fostering Connections between Science and Theology for Medical Track Muslim Students

The Evolution of Cooperation

Explaining the evolution of cooperation — one of life’s most common, complex, and paradoxical phenomena It’s easy to take cooperation for granted. Children team up to complete a project on time. Neighbors help each other mend fences. Colleagues share ideas and resources. The very fabric of human society depends upon working together. Cooperation is also ubiquitous in the natural world: lions collaborate on hunts, flowers share nectar with bees, and even bacteria produce essential resources that benefit their neighbors. But cooperation goes beyond mere quid pro quo — mutual aid for mutual benefit — and also takes the form of…

The Nantucket Project Academy – Exploring Curiosity, Love and The Miraculous, A Public Engagement Series

The Quantum Information Structure of Spacetime (QISS), Second Phase

Spiritual Yearning Research Initiative: The Search for Meaning Among the Nonreligious

The Spiritual Yearning Research Initiative (SYRI) is aimed at addressing the spiritual yearnings, existential concerns, and search for meaning of spiritually curious but nonreligious individuals and communities. SYRI’s overarching big question is: How can those who experience a deep yearning for a meaningful spiritual life, but find traditional religion unsatisfying, fulfill that yearning? This question involves empirical, conceptual, and normative dimensions, calling for an approach that is cross-disciplinary in nature. The Foundation’s aim in this initiative is to arrive at a better understanding of spiritual yearning and flourishing among the spiritually curious but nonreligious, by supporting research by scholars within…

Promoting Intellectual Humility Among Middle-School Students: Developing an Educational Film and Preliminary Intervention Strategy