Projects & Awards

Projects

• John Templeton Foundation Grant – “Agency, directionality, and function: foundations for a science of purpose” (PI), 2021-2024
• Interdisciplinary Collaborative Workshop Award (College of Liberal Arts) - “The many faces of reproducibility” (PI), 2019-2023
• John Templeton Foundation Grant - “The creative role of stress in development and evolution” (Co-PI with Günter Wagner [Yale University]), 2019-2023
• Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Centre for Advanced Study - “Evolvability: a new and unifying concept for evolutionary biology?” (Project Team Member), 2019-2020
• John Templeton Foundation Grant – “Free will, determinism, and the development of character: An adoption study” (Co-Investigator), 2017–2019
• John Templeton Foundation Grant – “Abrahamic reflections on science and religion” (Senior Scholar), 2016–2019
• John Templeton Foundation Grant – “From biological practice to scientific metaphysics” (Co-PI with C. Kenneth Waters [Calgary University], Marcel Weber [University of Geneva], and William Wimsatt [University of Chicago]), 2015-2018
• John Templeton Foundation Grant - “Integrating genetic and generic explanations of biological phenomena” (Co-PI with William Wimsatt [University of Chicago]), 2014–2017
• John Templeton Foundation Grant – “Complexity, emergence and reductionism: Toward a multilevel integrative analysis of the brain and cognition” (Project Team Member), 2011–2013
• SSHRC Grant (Canada) – “Integrating different biological approaches: a philosophical contribution” (Collaborator/Core Team Member with Ingo Brigandt [Univ. of Alberta]), 2009–2011