Projects

Collaborative research in action.

Projects are where research questions become collaborative infrastructure: grants, online courses, workshops, subgrants, conferences, and public-facing scholarship.

2026–2028

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.

$2.59M • postdoctoral fellow • undergraduate research assistants • external subgrants • workshops and publications

Daily Nous coverage Research area CV

2021–2024

Launching Experimental Philosophy of Religion

A major initiative aimed at establishing experimental philosophy of religion as an interdisciplinary research area.

$2.495M • John Templeton Foundation • workshops • subgrants • publications • capstone conference

Templeton project page Open-access special issue Project coverage

2015–2018

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.

£400K • University of Edinburgh • Coursera • public philosophy • online education

Theory course Science course Practice course Project interview

Current

AI, Assessment, & Digital Testimony

Work on generative AI, digital testimony, and higher education assessment, including collaborative work on LLM-era viva-style evaluation.

AI epistemology • LLM-era pedagogy • knowledge and trust

Digital testimony paper Assessment paper on arXiv Research area

2018–2020

The Problem of Evil and Experimental Philosophy

Collaborative empirical research on how people reason about suffering, evil, and religious belief.

$244K • empirical philosophy • philosophy of religion

Context of Suffering paper Empirical Challenges paper Current follow-up paper