FOUNDATIONAL RESEARCH GRANTS
CURRENT AND PAST TOPICS AND RECIPIENTS
2007-2008 Foundational Research Grant
Topic: Naturalism and Objective Morality
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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
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Recipient: Derek Parfit
Professor of Philosophy
Title: "Is Personal Identity What Matters?" Click here to read. |
2005-2006 Foundational Research Grant
Topic: Form, Matter, and Unity
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Recipient: Mark Johnston
Walter Cerf Professor of Philosophy
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
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Recipient: Jonathan Schaffer
Professor of Philosophy
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. |
Topic: Fundamental Teleology
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Recipient: John Hawthorne
Waynflete Professor of Philosophy
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. |