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TagMajor Grant Awarded for Work on the Philosophy of Neurotechnology
Four philosophers are leading an interdisciplinary team spanning the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford that has received a £1 million grant from the United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) to study the philosophy of neurotechnology. (more…)
Buffalo Philosophers Receive $4 Million Grant for Civil Discourse Initiative
The faculty of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) program at the University at Buffalo were awarded a $4 million grant from the US Department of Education for an initiative on “civil discourse”. (more…)
Philosophers Among the Winners of Recent Leverhulme Grants
The Leverhulme Trust has announced the winners of its 2025 Major Research Fellowships, and three philosophy professors are among them. (more…)
Philosopher Receives Big Grant to Study “Spiritual Yearning”
Ian Church, associate professor of philosophy at Hillsdale College, has received a $2.5 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for a project on “The Virtues and Vices of Spiritual Yearning”. (more…)
Large Grant for Artificial Cognition Project
“Our current cognitive concepts are simultaneously indispensable, yet inadequate; indispensable, because we need the richness of cognitive vocabulary to guide trust and decision-making; inadequate, because they encode anthropomorphic assumptions.” (more…)
Philosopher-Led Project on AI and Evolving Norms of Inquiry
How is the development and use of artificial intelligence changing the norms of inquiry and knowledge production across different disciplines? (more…)
Expanding the Range of Professional Philosophical Opportunities via Environmental Ethics
“One of the most visible and impactful ways that philosophers demonstrate their practical value,” says Matthew Kisner, professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina, is by having ethicists “embedded in a professional setting, working alongside clinicians and health care professionals.” He is now applying this model to environmental ethics. (more…)..
Sullivan Wins $10 Million Grant for “Love Ethic” Project at Notre Dame
Meghan Sullivan, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, has won a $10 million grant for the project, “Love and Social Transformation: Empowering Scholars and Social Innovators to Develop the Love Ethic.” (more…)
Three Philosophers & a Mathematician Join Together to Study Goal-Directed Behavior in Collective Entities
A $600,000 grant was awarded to a team of researchers to study “The Emergence and Evolution of Goal-Directed Behavior in Collective Entities.” (more…)
Interdisciplinary Study of the Virtue of Patience Launched with $4.71M Grant
“Patience enables us to take the right posture towards ourselves and others in our suffering and dependence.” (more…)
Philosophical Canon Expansion Gets Big Boost in Minnesota
Philosophers at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities have been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to further support the work of their Center for Canon Expansion and Change. (more…)
Baghramian to Create Center for Ethics in Public Affairs in Armenia
Maria Baghramian, currently professor of philosophy at University College Dublin, will be moving to the American University of Armenia for a five year period in order to take up a position as European Research Area Chair and establish and direct a Center for Ethics in Public Affairs (“ETICA”) at the university. (more…)
$3 Million Global Philosophy of Religion Project
The “Global Philosophy of Religion Project: Fundamental Spiritual Reality, Human Purpose, and Living Well”, based at the Birmingham Centre for the Philosophy of Religion at University of Birmingham, has garnered £2.4million (approximately $3 million) in funding. (more…)
Buffalo PPE Nets Big Grant for Local, Empirical, Philosophical Project on Immigration
The University at Buffalo’s Philosophy, Politics, and Economics faculty have won a $500,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation for an innovative project that brings philosophy together with community engagement in order to learn about the relationship between immigration and local democratic culture. (more…)
Large Grant for Beliefless Spirituality Project
T. Ryan Byerly (University of Sheffield) has won a grant of nearly $700,000 in support of “The Beliefless Spirituality Project: Philosophical Foundations and Scientific Explorations”. (more…)
$1 Million Grant for Project on Nonreligious Revelation
The John Templeton Foundation has awarded a $1,149,239 grant to philosopher L.A. Paul (Yale) and psychologist Molly Crockett (Princeton) in support of their “Revelation Project: finding meaning in nonreligious transformative contexts.” (more…)
Philosopher Wins $3.8m Grant for Work on Aging & Loneliness
John Beverley, assistant professor of philosophy at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), has been awarded a $3.8 million grant from the National Institute on Aging for a project focused on philosophically-informed ontology development related to the psychological study of aging. (more…)
$2.5 Million Grant for Philosopher-Led Project on Diversity & Disagreement
“Dynamism is the core of liberalism. The reason why liberalism is better than its global competitors, such as authoritarianism or different forms of perfectionism, is because it harnesses disagreements and diversity and channels it into productive outcomes.” (more…)
Frowe Wins $1.7M Grant on Ethics of Deterrence
Helen Frowe, professor of philosophy at Stockholm University and director of the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace, has been named one of the 2024 Wallenberg Scholars by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. (more…)
Metaphilosophy Project Workshop Series
A project on metaphilosophy led by Boran Berčić (University of Rijeka) has won a sizable grant from the Croatian Science Foundation and is putting on a series of online workshops. (more…)
Templeton Grant for Philosophy of Creative Intelligence (corrected)
The Templeton World Charity has awarded a large grant to Joshua Shepherd, research professor in philosophy at Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona for a project on “creative intelligence.” (more…)
Philosophers Awarded ARC Grants
The Australian Research Council (ARC) has announced the recipients of its Discovery Projects grants, which includes several philosophers. (more…)
$2.97 Million Grant for Course on Human Flourishing
Meghan Sullivan, professor of philosophy and director of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS) at the University of Notre Dame, has received a $2.97 million grant to lead a project developing courses on human flourishing. (more…)
Enoch Wins $1 Million Grant for Work on Liberalism
David Enoch, professor of philosophy and law at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the recipient of a roughly $1 million grant for a project called “Liberalism Rekindled”. (more…)
Recent ERC Advanced Grants to Philosophers
Three philosophers were among the recipients of multi-million-euro grants from the European Research Council (ERC). (more…)
Project on Epistemic Injustice in Health Care Wins £2.6 Million Grant
An interdisciplinary team led by philosopher Havi Carel (Bristol) has won a £2.6 million grant for its project, “Epistemic Injustice in Health Care” (EPIC). (more…)
“Knowledge in Crisis” Philosophy Project Wins €8.9 Million Grant
The Austrian Science Foundation (FWF) has awarded a €8.9 million “Cluster of Excellence” grant to the “Knowledge in Crisis” project headed by philosopher Tim Crane (Central European University). (more…)
€1.5 Million Grant for Philosophical Project on Work for Democratic Societies
Lisa Herzog, Professor of Political Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy and Centre for Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Groningen, has been awarded a €1.5 million grant for a project that seeks to develop a democratic philosophy of work. (more…)