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How Grantees Are Helping With COVID-19

Templeton Grantees Respond to the Coronavirus At the beginning of 1665, a deadly plague shuttered Cambridge University and sent a 23-year-old Isaac Newton back to his family estate. There, in relative seclusion, Newton thought and wrote and calculated — making breakthroughs in calculus, motion, optics, and gravitation. Newton’s annus mirabilis has become an oft-repeated (and at times embellished) chestnut in the history of science, but it gets at the truth that when the world is turned upside-down and many possibilities are foreclosed, others can open up. Today, as then, tragedy, uncertainty, and massive shifts in the rules of everyday life…

Core Documents and Core Questions on American Freedom

Activating and Demonstrating Greater Curiosity by Learning to Ask Questions

Prayer, Love, and Human Nature: Analytic Theology for Theological Formation

Metaknowledge Network: Knowledge About Knowledge to Answer the Big Questions

Science and the Big Questions Aggregator Website: Phase 2

Exploring the Big Questions with Aeon

A new two-year project will fund dozens of essays and longform pieces published in one of the most innovative and engaging journals of science and thought. Founded in 2012, Aeon is a digital magazine that provides a forum for writers, thinkers, and scientists to discuss ideas at the cutting edge of science, philosophy, society, and the arts through longform essays, idea pieces, and videos. With editorial offices in Melbourne, London, and New York, Aeon is structured as an international non-profit, relying on individual donations and grant funding to make its articles freely available to an aggregate audience of about 1.3…

TNP Academy 2019 Program

Big Questions Online, Publishing and Growth

S&BQ: The Science and the Big Questions Aggregator Website

Developing the intellectual virtues for research in Science and the Big Questions in Latin America

Aeon Magazine – 24-month publishing program focussed on Science and the Big Questions

Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP)

John Templeton Foundation Welcomes Two New Program Officers

The John Templeton Foundation is pleased to announce that Dr. Aamir Ali has joined the organization as the Program Officer in Mathematics and Physical Sciences, and Dr. Alexandra Was has joined as the Program Officer in Character Virtue Development. In his role, Dr. Ali, previously of the University of California, Berkeley, will develop projects in the Foundation's $36 million global portfolio of funding in the mathematical and physical sciences. An experimental cosmologist by training, Dr. Ali has a particular interest in astrophysics and cosmology. He is also drawn to questions of quantum foundations, emergence, and many-body physics, as well as…

The Templeton Frontiers Program at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Monthly Grant Report – March 2020

Recently Approved Grants Human Sciences Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount Developing Belief: The Development and Diversity of Religious Cognition and Behavior: Phase 1 University of California, Riverside Rebekah Richert; Kathleen Corriveau $9,866,732 Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project Phase VI Pew Charitable Trusts Alan Cooperman $2,446,900 Philosophy and Theology Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount Social virtue epistemology: What does it take to be an intellectually humble Socratic gadfly? Macquarie University Mark Alfano; Jay Van Bavel $797,870 The Launch of MA & PhD Degrees in Philosophy and the Foundations of Science for Latin America Asociación Civil de…

Marcelo Gleiser Wins 2019 Templeton Prize

MARCELO GLEISER AWARDED 2019 TEMPLETON PRIZE WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, PA. – Marcelo Gleiser, theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and a leading proponent of the view that science, philosophy, and spirituality are complementary expressions of humanity’s need to embrace mystery and the unknown, was announced today as the 2019 Templeton Prize Laureate. Gleiser, 60, the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and a professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, has earned international acclaim through his books, essays, blogs, TV documentaries, and conferences that present science as a spiritual quest to understand the origins of the universe and of…

Science and the Big Questions: Roundtable Series on the Physical and Spiritual World, the Brain-Mind Connection, and Human Development and Genetics

How Life’s Upheavals Shape Us

A Big Data Approach to Mapping the Effects of Transformative Events How are people transformed by life’s major events? Marriage and divorce, childbirth and death, illness and natural disaster — all can upend people’s lives, altering their outlook and perhaps even their personalities. But not everyone responds to the same upheavals in the same ways. Following a health scare, one person might slide into depression while another might find new sources of joy and gratitude. So how do these major events impact our social worlds and the ways that we cope with change? And what are the psychological characteristics that…

The Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth

Earth as a School: Finding Meaning, Relating to God, and Experiencing Growth After a Natural Disaster

Science and the Big Questions Aggregator Website

Heather Templeton Dill Interviewed on Philadelphia Channel Podcast

On March 28, John Templeton Foundation president Heather Templeton Dill appeared as a guest on the Philadelphia Channel, a biweekly podcast that spotlights leaders of cultural, business, and non-profit organizations around the region. Host Robert Rimm, managing editor of Arch Street Press, interviewed Dill in a half-hour conversation that ranged across the breadth of the Foundation’s origins and mission, touching on her grandfather, legendary investor Sir John Templeton, the variety of programs supported by the organization, and the £1.1 million annual Templeton Prize, awarded this year to Brazilian physicist and author Marcelo Gleiser. Previous guests on the program have included…

Observing the Big Bang with Relic Neutrinos

Scientists in Synagogues

Inviting Jewish congregations to explore awe, curiosity and wonder through the lens of science In May of 2017 an audience of more than a hundred gathered at Boston’s Congregation B’nai Shalom to hear Google executive Jeremy Wertheimer talk about the ways that artificial intelligence is transforming the human experience. As part of his talk, Wertheimer linked contemporary debates about who bears the blame if a self-driving car causes an injury, with a millenia-old Talmudic discussion of a surprisingly similar circumstance: if someone has an ox that gores a person or another animal, when should it be viewed as an accident…

Development of Intellectual Humility Virtual Research Network

An Evening Exploring the Unknown

Astrophysics, Anthropology, and Journalism in Conversation at the Atlantic Festival Washington, D.C. — Science is an incredible engine of discovery — but when scientists talk to the public, they often emphasize the results more than the humbling process of exploration and experimentation that leads to discovery. That was one of the take-aways from “Beyond Science: Exploring the Unknown,” a wide-ranging conversation sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation that took place September 26 as part of the closing evening of the three-day Atlantic Festival in downtown Washington, D.C. Ross Andersen, a science journalist and deputy editor at The Atlantic magazine, moderated…

More than Selfish Genes: Understanding the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis

Rutgers Postdoctoral Fellowship in Science-Engaged Philosophy of Religion

Philosophical frontiers in Reverse Mathematics

Fossils from Beyond the Big Bang

Foundational Investigations into the Infinite/Finite in Mathematics

What Is Organism-Centered Evolution?

TNP Academy 2018 Community Program

Planning Grant: Social Science Contributions to the Foundational Philosophical and Theological Questions Regarding Human Enhancement

Developing Market-Driven Models to Catalyze Genetics Research of Rare Diseases

Meta Citizen Science

Monthly Grant Report – February 2020

Recently Approved Grants Human Sciences Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount Modeling Religious Change Old Dominion University Research Foundation Saikou Diallo; Wesley Wildman $3,998,981 Advancing Interprofessional Spiritual Care in Clinical Settings George Washington University Christina Puchalski; George Fitchett $233,687 Purpose, Legacy, and Love: The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generations Civic Ventures Marc Freedman; Eunice Lin Nichols $4,500,000 Natural Sciences Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount Visual Signs as Cognitive Tools: Phylogeny and Ontogeny Leiden University Larissa Mendoza Straffon $205,957 Planning Grant for ‘Supporting Structures: Innovative Partnerships to Develop the Future of Bench Science at Christian Liberal…

Foundations of Complexity

Bellingham Lectureship in Philosophy and Religion

Monthly Grant Report – March 2019

Recently Approved Grants Human Sciences Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount Development of a scientific classification (taxonomy) of religious practices in health to rigourise the design and evaluation of interventions Coventry University Deborah Lycett; Riya Patel $232,181 Accurately Measuring Religious Belief and Attitudes Around the World University of British Columbia Azim Shariff; Will Gervais $139,697 Characterizing and Predicting Variation in Representations of Gods across Culture and History The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Kurt Gray; Joshua Jackson $234,398 The Intellectual Humility of Psychological Scientists Before and After the Credibility Revolution University of California, Davis Simine Vazire; Alexa…

National Geographic Society Storytelling Project

Physics of the Observer

Monthly Grant Report – December 2019 & January 2020

Recently Approved Grants Human Sciences Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount Religious belief, health and disease: a family perspective. I. Data collection University of Bristol Jean Golding; Kate Northstone $234,800 Scholarship for International Faculty/Students to Attend Spirituality & Health Research Workshop Duke University Harold Koenig; Benjamin Doolittle $115,411 Natural Sciences Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount Social Practices, Scientific Practice, and Human Evolution Wesleyan University Joseph Rouse $233,297 Philosophy and Theology Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount Panentheism and Religious Life The Johns Hopkins University Yitzhak Melamed; Clare Carlisle $232,748 SCP Graduate Fellowships for Science…