Over at The Chronicle of Higher Education, contributing editor Nathan Schneider writes about the Templeton effect, and the focus on what the John Templeton Foundation calls “Big Questions.”
Posts Tagged ‘John Templeton Foundation’
August 3rd, 2012
Does the afterlife exist?
posted by Taline CoxLast week, The John Templeton Foundation awarded a professor at the University of California, Riverside a $5 million dollar grant to study the afterlife.
June 4th, 2010
God, science and philanthropy
posted by Jonathan VanAntwerpenNathan Schneider profiles John Templeton and the Foundation he built, in The Nation.
February 1st, 2010
$4.4 million for free will
posted by Nathan SchneiderIn line with its professed 2010 funding priority of “Finding Free Will,” the John Templeton Foundation has just awarded $4.4 million for a new project, to be led by Alfred Mele at Florida State University, for “empirical and philosophical explorations” into “Free Will: Human and Divine.”
