The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced its latest round of grant winners, and several philosophers are among them.
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They and their projects are:
Huaping Lu-Adler (Georgetown University) and Julia Jorati (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Slavery and Early Modern Philosophy
A three-week residential institute for 25 higher education faculty to examine the subject of slavery and modern philosophy. $190,682.
Rega Wood (Indiana University, Bloomington)
The Richard Rufus Project: The Oxford Lectures Project
Preparation for print and online publication of the Paris and Oxford lectures of Richard Rufus of Cornwall, an early Scholastic philosopher-theologian (ca. 1200–1260). $300,000
Deborah Mower (University of Mississippi)
An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Methods, Goals, and Ethics of Memorialization
Planning and holding an interdisciplinary conference on the goals, methods, and ethics of memorialization. $50,000
Veljko Dubljevic (North Carolina State University)
Embedding AI in Society Ethically (EASE) Center
Establishing a humanities research center at North Carolina State University on the ethics of agent-based AI. $500,000
The complete list of grant winners is here.
(If any philosophers are missing from this post, please let us know. Thanks.)
