🌀 Templeton

• 🌉Learning with L’Arche

  The groundbreaking community centered on people with intellectual disabilities will examine how to foster humility and compassionate love

• 🌀How Life’s Upheavals Shape Us

  A Big Data Approach to Mapping the Effects of Transformative Events

• 🧬Hidden Depths - The ancestry of our most human emotions

  Many of the social virtues we think of as unique to modern humans may have developed far earlier than previously thought.

• 🔒Writers and Intellectuals Under Threat - Documenting Limits on Free Expression

  Explore how modern tech curtails free speech and a new PEN America project tracking threats against global intellectuals.

• 🧠How Do Brains Represent Beliefs About God?

  Explore how brains visualize God versus other figures through cutting-edge neuroimaging and machine learning techniques.

• 🌌A Night for the Ages

  Marcelo Gleiser receives the 2019 Templeton Prize at the Met, blending ancient myths with cutting-edge cosmology in an unforgettable ceremony.

• 🕊️What Counts As Religious Experience?

  A new survey framework aims to give researchers better tools to compare extraordinary human experiences.

• 🕳️Templeton-Backed Scientists Unveil First-Ever Black Hole Image

  Discover how scientists, backed by a $7.2 million grant, captured the first-ever image of a black hole, unveiling the mysteries of Messier 87.

• 📚Expanding Latin American Philosophical Work

  Developing inroads for Latin American philosophers in a new and global interdisciplinary conversation

• 🧠Examining the Neuroscience of Free Will

  Exploring the enigma of free will, a team of neuroscientists embarks on a groundbreaking $7 million study to decode the neuroscience behind our decisions.

• 🧠New $5.34 Million Grant to Examine the Neuroscience of Free Will

  Exploring the enigma of free will, a team of neuroscientists embarks on a groundbreaking $7 million study to decode the neuroscience behind our decisions.

• 🎓New Project to Extend the Digital Reach of Classical Liberal Ideas

  Explore how a new project is revolutionizing PPE education with cutting-edge digital content on core topics like market failure and public choice.

• 🗣️The Art of Meaningful Conversations

  Pushing the brain beyond its evolutionary constraints, one conversation at a time.

• 📚How Does Religious Participation Affect Human Flourishing?

  New research to evaluate long-term links between spiritual practice and physical, mental and social well-being

• 🙏The Philosophy, Theology, and Psychology of Christian Trust in God

  Historical perspective meets cutting-edge practice in new investigations into a central but little-understood aspect of religious life

• 🤲Nudging Empathy

  New interventions may help people open up when confronted with others’ needs

• ❤️A Scientific Approach to Living in Love

  Kindling new connections in the study of friendship, romance, and affection

• 🧠Creativity and Cooperation in the Dynamics of the Lexicon - from Lexis to Logos

  A word-by-word look at how we learn languages — and how we may change them in the process

• 🌌Consolidation of Fine-Tuning

  Building a field guide to ‘fine tuning’ across disciplines.

• 🌟Motivational Consequences of Sanctifying Difficult Experiences

  From the hero’s journey to the walk-a-thon, the idea that suffering builds character may be a powerful tool for unlocking achievement.

• 🔭Opportunity M - The Fast Track to Find Other Inhabited Worlds

  Deploying new tools in the search for planets capable of harboring life

• 🏰The King and the Cathedral

  Celebrating King Abdullah II’s call for Muslims — and others — to enact their love of God and neighbor

• 🧬Molecular insights into historical constraints on evolution

  Replaying evolution’s early days in a lab — with resurrected, billion-year-old genes

• 🧠Automated Self-Control - The Neuropsychology of Developing Good Habits

  In praise of mindlessness

• 🤔Free Will, Moral Responsibility, Divine Providence, and Human Relationships with God

  Who gets to play the blame game?

• 📜The Long Tale of ‘Brother John’

  A monk, an umbrella, an essay — and many changed lives

• 🤝Need-based transfers and the origins of human cooperation

  Giving without expecting repayment is not only more common than previously thought, it may also be more crucial for cultures to survive and flourish

• 🏺Consciousness and creativity in the Neolithic at Çatalhöyük, Turkey

  Searching one of the world’s oldest settlements for clues about the development of human cognition

• 🌾The Foundations of Ancient American Indian Religion and Civilization at Cahokia’s Emerald Shrine

  A remote religious site offers clues about the birth of a unique North American metropolis

• 🕊️The Case of “Secret Society” Religions

  Claiming supernatural power for their members and wielding lasting economic influence, secret societies may represent a key stage in human institution-building

• 🧪Chemistry to Life

  Harnessing the power of paradox to unravel how the first forms of life may have developed.

• 🧠Using Big Data to Quantify and Cultivate Genius

  Far from being solo achievers acknowledged for pure achievement, geniuses may be largely the products of their networks.

• 🔬Special Issue and Sections in ‘The New Atlantis’ Dedicated to Big Questions

  Slowing down the discourse on the meanings of today’s fast-paced technological and scientific change.

• 🤔The Virtue of Curiosity

  A quartet of researchers are using computer games and brain scans to measure — and manipulate — our desire to know.

• 🤔Does Self-Giving Love Require an Evolutionary World? Evolutionary Theodicy in Light of the Mystical Tradition

  A harsh natural world may be a necessary condition for the practice of sacrificial love

• 🤔The Problem of Evil and Experimental Philosophy of Religion

  What does it take for the idea of God to become philosophically untenable? It may depend on who you ask.

• 🕍Worship - A Jewish Philosophical Investigation

  Practiced by billions of people but largely neglected by philosophers and social scientists, worship is ripe for a new wave of interdisciplinary study

• 🔬How do novel cell types arise in evolution?

  A new theory offers insight into an evolutionary puzzle

• 🎲The Foundations of Fine-Tuning

  Philosophy, physics, and the implications of an unlikely universe

• 🧠The neurostimulation of belief

  Using brain stimulation to test the relationship between intuition and religious belief

• 🌐Creating a Society for the Study of Cultural Evolution

  Forming connections and framing grand questions on the links between evolutionary inheritance and cultural change

• 🤔Theologically-Engaged Anthropology

  Anthropologists are sometimes ill-equipped to interpret the religious motivations of their subjects. A new initiative is trying to change that.

• 👵Encouraging independence and enterprise for a healthy old age

  Demographic shifts and rising costs may soon push a number of long-standing social safety nets into peril. An analysis of healthcare in the U.K. and its neighbors explores the problem — and some potential ways forward.

• 🕌Developing Religious Leaders with Scientific Awareness

  Research fellowships to rebuild bridges between modern science and Islamic thought

• 🕌Newly-launched Renovatio magazine addresses big questions for Muslim audiences

  With articles and events tied to its second issue, Renovatio magazine is hitting its stride

• 🕍Jewish Philosophical Theology

  Looking for new insights about the nature of God in some of Judaism’s oldest sources

• 🌌String Theory and the Anthropic Universe

  Has flawed intuition created false support for the multiverse?

• 🌌A Fractured Universe – Fundamental Physics, Symmetry and Life

  Computer simulations may help tease apart why some aspects of our universe are symmetrical — and some aren’t

• 🎲Models of Providence - an Abrahamic inquiry

  Bridging gaps through an interfaith investigation into the problems and possibilities of randomness

• 🌌NOVA Wonders

  A storied series provides a cutting-edge take on a set of age-old questions