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The John Templeton Foundation’s Ideas Challenge Official Rules

Agency

Background Since the extrusion of teleological explanation from the physical sciences, biology has wrestled with developing an account of living systems that avoids vitalistic mysticism or explanatory obscurantism, while recognizing rather than dismissing the distinctive agentive properties of organisms that perform metabolic work to attain far from equilibrium conditions. Specifically, living organisms sustain structural and operational conditions entailing targeted disequilibrium that is robust and resilient in the face of perturbation.  The purpose of this RFI is to solicit ideas for development of novel theoretical approaches and acquisition of data and that explore the origin, operation, interactions, and/or impacts of goal-directedness…

Development

A key feature of many important biological processes is that they seem directional: they are not just homeostatic, but arrive at reliable destinations that involve a predictable sequence of events in space and time. Embryos are a striking example: as recognized long ago by Aristotle, embryos involve both a staggering increase in apparent order and a clear trajectory as the form of the organism develops. How might we analyze this goal-directedness more incisively?   Developmental biologists have been spectacularly successful over many decades in uncovering the molecular, cellular, and genetic underpinnings of development and have documented with increasing detail the…

The Open Syllabus Project: Mapping the Intersections of Science, Philosophy, and Religion in Higher Education

Promoting Religious Freedom and Mainstreaming a New Interdisciplinary Field

A Social Cognitive Developmental Approach to Folk Representations of God’s Mind

New Visions in Theological Anthropology: Engaging with the Behavioral Sciences

Human Personhood, Purpose and Critical Realism: Reopening the Social Sciences to the Big Questions