• Welcome to our new-look web site. If you have comments, suggestions or questions, please feel free to contact us.
• New! Now commencing the Target Investigation Grant program with inaugural funding on the topic “Immanent vs. Transcendent Metaphysics.” See recent award announcement at right.
• Results now in: a University of Leeds coup. Announcing the newest winner and runners-up for the Younger Scholars Prize competition of 2009. See at right, and also here.
• Most recent (2009) Foundational Research Grant award, on the topic “Metaphysics and Intuition”, extended to Yale professor. See notice at right, or here
• Hosting newest research results: a paper on Naturalism and Objective Morality, from 2008 Foundational Research Grant funding. Available here.

 

 

 

ANNOUNCING:
NEW TARGET INVESTIGATION GRANT
INAUGURAL AWARD

 

In keeping with its commitment to ongoing support of research in traditional metaphysics, The Ammonius Foundation has expanded its investment in funded grant initiatives. The new Target investigation Grant will fund research and writing on selected topics in metaphysics. The Foundation anticipates offering 2 – 3 grant awards per year.

 

The Ammonius Foundation is pleased to announce

 

Timothy O’Connor,

 

Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University, as recipient of this first 2009-1010 Target Investigation Grant award, on the topic

Fundamental Metaphysics: Immanent vs. Transcendent

 

Site-hosted research paper forthcoming in Fall 2010; click here for more information on our Target Investigation Grant program.

 

 

 

2009 YOUNGER SCHOLARS PRIZE WINNER

 

The Ammonius Foundation and Oxford Studies in Metaphysics join in congratulating

 

Jason Turner (University of Leeds),

 

as the winner of the most recent 2009 Younger Scholars Prize competition. See here for details.

 

 

 

CURRENT FOUNDATIONAL RESEARCH GRANT

 

The 2008-2009 Foundational Research Grant topic is

Metaphysics and Intuition.

 

The Ammonius Foundation is pleased to announce

 

George Bealer,

 

Professor of Philosophy, Yale University, as the recipient of the
2008 – 2009 Foundational Research Grant.

 

Site-hosted research paper forthcoming late 2009; click here for more information on our Foundational Research Grant program.

 

 

 

HOSTING NEW RESEARCH RESULTS

 

The 2007-2008 Foundational Research Grant, on the topic
Naturalism and Objective Morality

 

was awarded to

 

Alvin Plantinga,

 

the John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. See his new site-hosted research paper, “Naturalism, Theism, Obligation and Supervenience” here along with other research papers funded by the Foundational Research Grant program.