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Academic Cross-Training Fellowship
Because of disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the John Templeton Foundation regrets to announce that we will not proceed with the 2020 ACT Fellowship funding competition. If you are interested in learning about future funding opportunities with the Foundation, please sign up to receive our Possibilities newsletter. We also encourage scholars interested in the Foundation’s mission to consider our priority funding areas and to apply for funding by submitting an Online Funding Inquiry. We thank you for your interest in the Foundation’s work.
New $5.34 Million Grant to Examine the Neuroscience of Free Will
Think about a decision you’ve made — a big one like where to go to college, or a tiny one like whether to pick up your phone. People take for granted that they act according to their decisions, and that our actions only begin once we’ve made a conscious choice. But is it really true? Several fascinating experiments have suggested otherwise. Beginning this year, a 17-member international team of leading neuroscientists and philosophers will undertake an ambitious four-year set of studies to expand our understanding of decision and action, funded by a $5.34 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation…
$1.2M Project to Expand Latin American Philosophical Work
Developing inroads for Latin American philosophers in a new and global interdisciplinary conversation A new $1.2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation aims to accelerate Latin American philosophical work on free will, agency, and responsibility by supporting a series of seminars and fellowships in the region. Beginning this summer, scholars from throughout Latin America will gather in Bogotá, Colombia for the first in a trio of seminars organized by philosopher Santiago Amaya of the Universidad de los Andes (Uniandes). The seminars are the centerpiece of a project to build capacity for Latin American academics to pursue high-level work on…
John Templeton Foundation Welcomes New Program Officer in Human Sciences
The John Templeton Foundation is pleased to announce that Dr. Erik Gjesfjeld has joined the organization as a Program Officer in Human Sciences. In this role, Dr. Gjesfjeld will help lead a global portfolio of more than $100 million in philanthropic initiatives within the social, behavioral, cognitive, and health sciences. Dr. Gjesfjeld has come to the Foundation after serving as a Renfrew Fellow in the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and a Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College at the University of Cambridge. Prior to this, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Institute for Society and Genetics and a Lecturer…
What is Open Science? A Conversation with Nicholas Gibson, Director of Human Sciences
The John Templeton Foundation has become increasingly invested in open science over the last eight years and is now part of a broad coalition of funders and organizations that promote best practices in the reproducibility and transparency of research. We sat down with our staff member Nicholas Gibson, Director of Human Sciences programs, to ask him about the role of open science in accelerating scientific progress and discovery. Let’s start at the beginning—what is ‘open science’? To borrow from the Center for Open Science, open science means showing your work and sharing your work. Just like we learned as kids,…
The Legacy of Sir John Templeton
Reflecting On Our Founder With President Heather Templeton Dill We tell many stories about our illustrious founder, Sir John Templeton. Some of them come from his writings — he was a prolific writer, and wrote or edited more than a dozen books during his lifetime. Others have been handed down between generations of those who knew him, and those who may not have known him, but have felt the ripple effect of his life and work on their own. There are many resources we can consult for information about Sir John. But today, I want to share something my mother,…
Monthly Grant Report – January 2019
Recently Approved Grants Human Sciences Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount Tracking and Understanding the Effects of Transformative Events in People’s Lives Regents of the University of Michigan Rada Mihalcea; James Pennebaker $1,684,328 Systematic Review and Analysis of US Federal Investments in Research on Religion and Health University of Connecticut Crystal Park; John Salsman $234,207 The Third Religion, Economics and Society (RES) Initiative: Making the Economic Study of Religion and Religious Markets a Field of the Future Chapman University Jared Rubin $325,346 Divine forgiveness: Phase 1 Florida State University Research Foundation Inc. Frank Fincham $233,994 Religion and human flourishing…
Generosity: Is it Really Better to Give Than Receive?
Science reveals that generosity benefits the giver, too The old truism that “it’s better to give than to receive” isn’t just fodder for preschool and Sunday school lessons. A host of studies support the claim that generosity is not only good for the recipient, but the giver as well. However you practice generosity—tithing to a religious institution, volunteering at a food pantry, donating to nonprofits, or driving elderly relatives to the store—your quest to serve others is likely to result in personal rewards, too. Research shows that altruism between people reduces sadness and stress while increasing a sense of purpose…
Breaking New Ground in Science and Religion
Over the past several decades the field of science and religion has produced a rich body of scholarship concerning the different purposes, methods and epistemologies of these two areas and their modes of interaction. Scholars have also addressed a range of more specific topics such as divine action, the meanings of evolution, fine-tuning, and varied elements of human nature. As productive as it has been, we at the John Templeton Foundation believe the science-religion dialogue has yet to investigate the full range of possibilities. In particular, it has largely been carried out from a perspective that is theistic (usually Christian),…
A ‘wide angle’ view of science and religion from the AAAS
There is no organization more closely identified with the scientific community in the United States than the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). But for over twenty years, the AAAS has also been actively pursuing connections to religious communities. Since 1995, its Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) has connected representatives of these two very different kinds of human response to our extraordinary universe. In 2013, with the support of the John Templeton Foundation and the Templeton Religion Trust, DoSER launched a project called “Science for Seminaries,” focusing specifically on the institutions that prepare clergy across the…
