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Environmental and climate science training will enable faith leaders to participate in decision-making processes related to environmental and climate issues facing their communities.
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Joyful by nature: a comparative approach to the evolution and function of joy in intelligent species
Examining joy as an aspect of intelligence in non-human animals: chimpanzees, bonobos, the New Zealand-native kea parrot, and bottlenose dolphins.
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With TWCF funding, ConTraSt, an interactive open-access website that compares theories of consciousness by connecting findings from independent experiments, plans to become a hub for the consciousness community.
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With the commitment of more than 50 US colleges and the approval of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, HELIOS represents the most promising attempt to align higher education practices with open research values.
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The Europaeum is a program supported by Templeton World Charity Foundation, building a morally-aware cadre of talented young people who've developed leadership qualities, learned how to work collaboratively & are committed to shaping the future of Europe for the better.
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Drawing on computer science and evolutionary theory as well as cognitive, developmental, and comparative psychology, a new TWCF-funded project aims to develop a mathematical explanation for the diversity of intelligences observed in the natural world, as they are faced with varying constraints, capacities, and opportunities.
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Dora Biro from the University of Rochester leads this project to advance a framework for mapping rationality and reasoning across nonhuman in biological and machine intelligences and for identifying rationality and reasoning among individuals and collectives.
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This project aims to strengthen the training of the next generation of researchers in neurobiology and philosophy of consciousness, and higher-order cognitive processing. Led by Kate Geddie of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), co-directed by Adrian Mark Owen and Anil K. Seth, this grant supports the CIFAR Brain, Mind and Consciousness Program’s Winter School.
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The global COVID pandemic has exposed inefficiencies and problems associated with scientific advisory boards who are tasked with providing timely information to the public. A comparative empirical study led by a team at Syracuse University seeks to develop design principles and mechanisms that will foster and preserve the wellbeing of citizens by improving the quality of advice given by these entities.
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Human flourishing is a complex topic that is not completely covered by any traditional academic domain. A new project is conducting a systematic analysis of human flourishing literature and will produce a report about the state of the field and key clusters within it.