Varieties of Understanding – Grant Winners
“Varieties of Understanding: Perspectives from Psychology, Philosophy, and Theology” is a project funded with $4.2 million from the Templeton Foundation, and which is lead by philosophers Stephen Grimm (Fordham), Michael Strevens (NYU), Gordon Graham (Princeton Theological Seminary), and others. They recently announced the winners of their grant competition, which included $715,000 for philosophy projects:
The Unity of Practical and Theoretical Understanding
John Bengson (Wisconsin) & Marc Moffett (Texas, El Paso)
Understanding as a Form of Respect
Remy Debes (Memphis)
Virtue and Understanding
Alison Hills (Oxford)
Kinds and Degrees of Understanding — The Interplay between Scientific Expertise and Everyday Understanding
Henk W. de Regt (VU Amsterdam)
True Enough
Catherine Z. Elgin (Harvard)
Are Historical and Aesthetic Understanding Distinctively Individualizing?
Robert Hopkins (NYU)
The Production of Public Understanding
Matthew Slater (Bucknell) & Jason Leddington (Bucknell)
