Projects

The Project on Science and Religion
Chaired by Professor Thomas Nagel

The subject is the relation between science and religion. The project's initial focus was on epistemological questions. Later in the study, we take up legal, political, and ethical issues as well ... read more

The Project on the Nature, Limits and Significance of Disagreement
Chaired by Professor Paul Boghossian

The Project on the Nature, Limits and Significance of Disagreement is chaired by Professor Paul Boghossian. The Disagreement Project will be structured somewhat like the Science and
Religion Project ... read more

The Project on the Nature of Taste
Chaired by Professor Paul Boghossian

The concept of taste in aesthetics had its origins in ideas about gustatory taste, and much was made of this analogy in the eighteenth century. Recent research on taste opens up the possibility of a re-examination of the relations between the gustatory and aesthetic concepts ... read more