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How Grantees Are Helping With COVID-19

Templeton Grantees Respond to the Coronavirus At the beginning of 1665, a deadly plague shuttered Cambridge University and sent a 23-year-old Isaac Newton back to his family estate. There, in relative seclusion, Newton thought and wrote and calculated — making breakthroughs in calculus, motion, optics, and gravitation. Newton’s annus mirabilis has become an oft-repeated (and at times embellished) chestnut in the history of science, but it gets at the truth that when the world is turned upside-down and many possibilities are foreclosed, others can open up.  Today, as then, tragedy, uncertainty, and massive shifts in the rules of everyday life…

What Does a 1,800-year-old Buddhist Classic Have to Say about Quantum Physics and the Nature of Reality?

A renowned physicist discusses the philosophy of emptiness with the Dalai Lama’s doctor An expert in quantum gravity and a Hollywood-born family doctor-turned Buddhist monk met recently to discuss whether the writings of a second-century Buddhist thinker could address some of the metaphysical paradoxes of modern physics. In the October 29 event, Carlo Rovelli, the author of the acclaimed Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Helgoland, spoke for nearly three hours with Barry Kerzin, who balances his monastic vocation with work in academic medicine and as the personal physician to the 14th Dalai Lama. Their discussion centered on Nagarjuna, who…

WATCH: The Difference Between Thinking About Science and Religion

Consider a thought experiment. If you could choose an ideal belief system for the next generation of intelligent beings -- a set of beliefs that enables them to thrive and do good -- what would it be? One way to answer this question is to emphasize beliefs that would help them obtain basic information about the world. These might include a focus on evidence, logic, and chains of cause and effect. Inquiry would be valued, and ignorance or uncertainty avoided. But this isn't the only way to answer the question. Another way is to emphasize beliefs to enable people to…

The Idea of a University: Pilot Program on Faith and Science

Generosity for Life: The Science and Imagination of Living Generously

Toward a Markedly More Accurate Geography of Minds, Machines, and Math

Closer to Truth: Philosophy of Biology

Can Science Set Us Free?

Develop an academic credit-based module on classical liberal philosophy and its application to public policy for university students

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