FOUNDATIONAL RESEARCH GRANTS


 

CURRENT AND PAST TOPICS AND RECIPIENTS

 

 

2007-2008 Foundational Research Grant

Topic: Naturalism and Objective Morality

 

Recipient: Alvin Plantinga

 

John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy

  University of Notre Dame

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

 

Preliminary Title: "Philosophical Naturalism and Moral Realism"


 

 

2006-2007 Foundational Research Grant

Topic: Metaphysics and Value

 

Recipient: Derek Parfit

 

Professor of Philosophy
  All Souls College, Oxford University
Fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

 

Title: "Is Personal Identity What Matters?" Click here to read.

 

 


2005-2006 Foundational Research Grant

Topic: Form, Matter, and Unity

 

Recipient: Mark Johnston

 

Walter Cerf Professor of Philosophy
  Princeton University

 

Title:"Hylomorphism as a Theory of Unity " Click here to read.

 

A later version of this paper has been published as “Hylomorphism” in the Journal of Philosophy 103 (12), 2006, pp.  652-698.

 

 


2004-2005 Foundational Research Grant

Topic: Taking Monism Seriously

 

Recipient: Jonathan Schaffer

 

Professor of Philosophy
  Australian National University

 

Title:"Monism" Click here to read.

 

A later version of this paper is forthcoming as “Monism: The Priority of the Whole” in The Philosophical Review.


 

 

2004 Research Grant

Topic: Fundamental Teleology

 

Recipient: John Hawthorne

 

Waynflete Professor of Philosophy
  Magdalen College, Oxford

 

Title: "What Would Teleological Causation Be " Click here to read.

 

A later version of this paper appears in John Hawthorne, Metaphysical Essays (Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 265-83.