The John Templeton Foundation has awarded a $2,349,634, 3-year grant to Ian Church, assistant professor of philosophy at Hillsdale College, to lead a multi-team project on experimental philosophy of religion.

Ian Church

According to an announcement by the Templeton Foundation, the aim of the project is “to kick-start broad, interdisciplinary engagement in XPhi of religion” and establish “XPhi of religion as a new, bona fide area of research.” It involves applications from the following ten research teams, some of which will be funded by the grant:

• Joshua Knobe (Yale); Michael Rea (Notre Dame); Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers); David Rose (Stanford); & Deborah Kelemen (Boston)
• Stephen Stich (Rutgers); Justin Sytsma (VUW); Nick Byrd (SIT)
• Daniel Lim (Duke Kunshan) & Ryan Nichols (Fullerton)
• Charity Anderson (Baylor); Kutter Callaway (Fuller); & Sarah Schnitker (Baylor)
• Kevin Scharp (St Andrews) & Andrew Torrance (St Andrews)
• Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh) & Ameni Mehrez (CEU)
• Shaun Nichols (Cornell); Tamar Kushnir (Cornell); & David Pizarro (Cornell)
• Jordan Wessling (Lindsey Wilson); Aku Visala (Helsinki); & Michael Laakasuo (Helsinki)
• Sarah Ritchie (Edinburgh); Myron Penner (Trinity Western); & Jonathan Jong (Oxford/Coventry)
• Helen De Cruz (SLU) & Johan De Smedt (SLU).

You can learn more about the grant here.