The Virtues and Vices of Spiritual Yearning
Principal Investigator on a three-year John Templeton Foundation project investigating spiritual yearning across philosophy, psychology, and religious studies.
Projects
Collaborative research in action.
Projects are where research questions become collaborative infrastructure: grants, online courses, workshops, subgrants, conferences, and public-facing scholarship.
Launching Experimental Philosophy of Religion
A major initiative aimed at establishing experimental philosophy of religion as an interdisciplinary research area.
Templeton project pageOpen-access special issueProject coverage
Intellectual Humility MOOC
Co-PI with Duncan Pritchard on a University of Edinburgh project that brought research on intellectual humility to a broad public audience through a three-course online sequence.
AI, Assessment, & Digital Testimony
Work on generative AI, digital testimony, and higher education assessment, including collaborative work on LLM-era viva-style evaluation.
Digital testimony paperAssessment paper on arXivResearch area
The Problem of Evil and Experimental Philosophy
Collaborative empirical research on how people reason about suffering, evil, and religious belief.
Context of Suffering paperEmpirical Challenges paperCurrent follow-up paper
The Philosophy and Science of Intellectual Humility
A long-running interdisciplinary research program exploring intellectual humility across philosophy, psychology, theology, and education. This work includes intellectual leadership on major Templeton Foundation initiatives together with books, articles, and public-facing scholarship exploring intellectual character and the intellectual virtues.
Science of Intellectual HumilityPhilosophy & Theology of Intellectual HumilityBook