Sample Grants
Grant Title Award Date Grant Amount
 
Philosophy Talk - Radio Show

John Perry, Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
Stanford University (Stanford  CA)

Ken Taylor, Professor and Chair
Department of Philosophy
Stanford University (Stanford  CA)

This project includes 13 episodes of the "Philosophy Talk" radio program and the promulgation of the episodes via the web, podcasts, and transcripts.  Programs will include philosophers, scientists, and theologians addressing big questions about infinity, emergence, free will, faith and reason, altruism, and mind/body dualism.
 September 2007 $122,365
Science and Religion: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Professor Thomas Dixon
Department of History
Lancaster University (Lancaster, United Kingdom)

This project includes a July 2007 symposium and resultant book publication marking the retirement of Oxford historian of science John Hedley Brooke. The event included contributions by historians, philosophers, theologians, and scientists.
 October 2006 $99,078
Contextualizing Issues in Science and Religion

Donald A. Yerxa, Ph.D., Assistant Director
Editor, Historically Speaking
The Historical Society (Boston MA)

Support for eleven forums that explore the historical context of specific issues in science and religion. These forums, which are published in Historically Speaking: The Bulletin of the Historical Society, seek to correct specific past historical errors that have impeded progress in science and religion.
December 2004 $113,145
Is Nature Enough? Meaning and Truth in the Age of Science

Professor John F. Haught, Distinguished Research Professor of Theology
Founder and Director
Center for the Study of Science & Religion
Georgetown University (Washington DC)

This grant supported research and writing of a book on the nature of Nature. Cambridge University Press published Is Nature Enough? Meaning and Truth in the Age of Science in 2006.
 August 2004 $52,500
Laws of Nature and Religious Presuppositions: Connections between Religious Positions and the Way of Accounting for Natural Order

Dr. Lydia Jaeger, Directrice des études (Academic Dean)
Institut Biblique de Nogent (Nogent-sur-Marne France)

This grant supported research into selected philosophers of science and cosmologists of note in the contemporary debate about the laws of nature, and the place occupied by religion in the discussion about laws of nature in philosophy of science. The research has been published as Croire et Connaitre: Einstein, Polany, et les Lois de la Nature (Excelsis 2005).
 September 2003 $28,094
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