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Building a Foundation for the Study of Intellectual Humility in Education

Developing Character for Chicago Inner-City Youth

Populism, Intolerance, and Two Concepts of Liberty

The Secret of Happiness at the Top of a Bell Tower

Was Emerson right about the healing power of awe?  In our Study of the Day feature series, we highlight a research publication related to a John Templeton Foundation-supported project, connecting the fascinating and unique research we fund to important conversations happening around the world. In Stendhal’s 1839 masterpiece The Charterhouse of Parma, when the brave, impetuous hero Fabrizio del Dongo finds himself imprisoned alone at the top of the Farnese Tower in Northern Italy, he is surprised to find there not torment, but the first peace of his life. Gazing down from a dizzying height onto the mountain landscape —…

Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots: John Templeton Foundation Roots & Shoots Youth Prizes

African Leadership Academy (ALA): Fostering Moral and Intellectual Character Development in Africa

Foundation for Jewish Camp (FJC) Study of Character Development at Jewish Camps

Developing and Validating a Measure of Intellectual Humility in Traditional Villages of Rural Honduras

Religion & Spirituality Matter for Public Health: A Stakeholder Foundation for Catalyzing Needed Integration

The Physics of Emergence

Since the 1972 publication of Philip Anderson’s seminal paper, “More is Different,” physicists have been interested in whether and to what extent there are phenomena best described as “emergent.” This interest has spread throughout a range of areas within physics, due in no small part to the fact that on some conceptions of emergence entirely new properties, entities, and behaviors appear at many different levels of complexity—novelties that “require research which is just as fundamental in its nature as any other.”*  However, at present we lack a thorough understanding of whether and to what extent the conceptions of emergence employed…