For the John Templeton Foundation, I wrote about how a new fellowship program is equipping scholars to explore interdisciplinary questions about life’s greatest mysteries.
from the origin of the universe and the emergence of life to the meaning of human existence, certain “Big Questions” are so big that they transcend individual disciplines and beg to be examined from multiple perspectives.
In order to help spur more fruitful interdisciplinary engagement, the John Templeton Foundation is offering a new round of $220,000 fellowships to provide recently tenured philosophers and theologians the opportunity to spend up to three academic years in “academic cross-training” in deep engagement with the empirical sciences.
Jan 28, 2020, updated Mar 31, 2025