Projects & Awards
Projects
John Templeton Foundation Grant – “Agency, directionality, and function: foundations for a science of purpose” (PI), 2021-2024
Interdisciplinary Collaborative Workshop Award (College of Liberal Arts) - “The many faces of reproducibility” (PI), 2019-2023
John Templeton Foundation Grant - “The creative role of stress in development and evolution” (Co-PI with Günter Wagner [Yale University]), 2019-2023
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Centre for Advanced Study - “Evolvability: a new and unifying concept for evolutionary biology?” (Project Team Member), 2019-2020
John Templeton Foundation Grant – “Free will, determinism, and the development of character: An adoption study” (Co-Investigator), 2017–2019
John Templeton Foundation Grant – “Abrahamic reflections on science and religion” (Senior Scholar), 2016–2019
John Templeton Foundation Grant – “From biological practice to scientific metaphysics” (Co-PI with C. Kenneth Waters [Calgary University], Marcel Weber [University of Geneva], and William Wimsatt [University of Chicago]), 2015-2018
John Templeton Foundation Grant - “Integrating genetic and generic explanations of biological phenomena” (Co-PI with William Wimsatt [University of Chicago]), 2014–2017
John Templeton Foundation Grant – “Complexity, emergence and reductionism: Toward a multilevel integrative analysis of the brain and cognition” (Project Team Member), 2011–2013
SSHRC Grant (Canada) – “Integrating different biological approaches: a philosophical contribution” (Collaborator/Core Team Member with Ingo Brigandt [Univ. of Alberta]), 2009–2011
Postdoctoral Researcher Mentoring
Dana Matthiessen (2023-present) - Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
Max Dresow (2021-2023) - “Agency, directionality, and function: foundations for a science of purpose”
Amanda Corris (2020-2022) - “The creative role of stress in evolution and development”
Janella Baxter (2016-2018) – “From biological practice to scientific metaphysics”
Awards
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Elected Fellow, 2023- (2022 AAAS Fellows)
Distinguished McKnight University Professorship, 2022-
David Michael Winton and Penny Rand Winton Chair in the Liberal Arts, 2020-2025
John M. Dolan Professor, Department of Philosophy, 2019-2021
Imagine Fund Annual Award, 2019-2020
CLA Scholar of the College, 2013–2016
Imagine Fund Annual Award, 2013–2014
Global Programs & Strategy Alliance, International Travel Award, 2011
Institute for Advanced Study Faculty Seminar Award, 2010
McKnight Land Grant Professorship, 2009–2011
Graduate School – Office of Interdisciplinary Initiatives: “Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology Graduate Group” (Team Member with M. Borrello, M. Travisano, and C.K. Waters), 2008–2009
CLA Single Semester Leave, 2008–2009
UMN Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, 2007
UMN McKnight Summer Fellowship for the Arts and Humanities, 2007
National Science Foundation Travel Grant, 2006
UCSC COR Faculty Research Grant, 2005–2006
Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship, 2004–2005
George Hudock Fellowship, 2003 & 2004
Harvey Fellowship from the Mustard Seed Foundation, 1999–2002