Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks

Recipient: Soderquist, K. Brian (Copenhagen, 1463 Denmark) in affiliation with Connecticut College (New London, CT 06320 USA)

Goal: Preparation for publication of volumes 4, 5, 6, and 7 of Kierkegaard's journals and notebooks, an English-language edition of the unpublished writings of Søren Kierkegaard. (36 months)

Description: An international group of well-known scholars of philosophy, history, and religious studies is producing a critical, scholarly, English-language edition of the unpublished writings of the Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55). These writings, collectively entitled "Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks," are being published by Princeton University Press. The first volume appeared at the beginning of 2007; volume two appeared at the beginning of 2008; volume three is now at the compositor and is expected to be appear at the beginning of 2009. Editorial work is now under way for the materials which will constitute volume four, which is expected to appear at the beginning of 2010. We expect to maintain this publication schedule--a volume a year--until all eleven volumes have been published. Approximately 50% of the project's costs are being borne by a major grant from the Danish government.

Grant: 196434 / RZ-51016-09,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Collaborative Research,   Year Awarded: 2009

John Buridan's Questions on Aristotle's De Anima (On the Soul): A Critical Edition with an Annotated Translation

Recipient: Klima, Gyula (Bronx, NY 10458 USA) in affiliation with Fordham University

Goal: Preparation for publication of three bilingual Latin-English volumes of an annotated critical edition and translation of John Buridan's Questions on Aristotle's De Anima, with a fourth volume of expository and interpretive essays. (24 months)

Description: A critical edition and annotated English translation of John Buridan's Questions on Aristotle's De Anima (QDA, for short) in three volumes, to be prepared by an international group of scholars. The proposed volumes, containing the critical edition of the Latin text and the annotated English translation on facing pages, will be published by Fordham University Press, in the new series Medieval Philosophy: Texts and Studies, edited by the project director, Gyula Klima. The impact of Buridan's logic and cognitive psychology was enormous in his time. Bridging the linguistic and conceptual gap between his time and ours, the proposed volumes will allow Buridan's ideas to have their impact on contemporary philosophical discussion concerning such fundamental issues as the nature of the human mind, its relation to the human body, and the proper analysis of its basic cognitive functions, such as perception, memory and understanding.

Grant: 196406 / RZ-50988-09,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Collaborative Research,   Year Awarded: 2009

Descartes, Galileo, Hobbes: Philosophy and Science, Politics and Religion during the Scientific Revolution

Recipient: Garber, Daniel Elliot (Princeton, NJ 08544 USA) in affiliation with Princeton University

Goal: A four-week college and university teacher seminar for sixteen participants on the relation between philosophy, science, politics, and religion as the intellectual context for three major thinkers and their works.

Description: The four week summer seminar will bring together fifteen college-level instructors with the aim of deepening their knowledge of three central figures in early seventeenth century thought, broadly conceived to include philosophy, science and mathematics, political and religious thought. In our seminar we propose to tackle a group of interrelated texts, figures and issues. Descartes and Hobbes knew one another, and both knew Galileo's work very well, and were keenly aware of his conflict with the Church. Studying these figures together brings out interesting themes in the history of science, philosophy, politics, and the relations of these to religion. Furthermore, each of these figures is central to the curricula in philosophy, political science, and history. Our hope is to bring together scholars and teachers from these different areas to learn from one another and thereby to enrich their teaching and scholarship.

Grant: 197350 / FS-50216-09,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for College Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2009

Richard Rufus Project (RRP)

Recipient: Wood, Rega (Stanford, CA 94305-2155 USA) in affiliation with Stanford University (Stanford, CA 94305 USA)

Goal: Preparation for online and print publication of a critical edition of the Latin texts of the works of Richard Rufus of Cornwall, a philosopher-theologian who taught at the Universities of Paris and Oxford from 1235 to 1256. (36 months)

Description: Richard Rufus introduced the teaching of Aristotle's metaphysics and natural philosophy at Paris, the center of the 13th c. western intellectual world. Contrary to textbook reports on early medieval Aristotle studies, Rufus' lectures were not just paraphrases. In addition to outlining Aristotle's arguments, Rufus challenged Aristotle and in so doing, influenced many great Scholastics who followed him. Rufus' influence can be seen, for example, in Roger Bacon's and Bonaventure's arguments against Aristotle and for the beginning of the universe, in Albert the Great's discussion of the crucial medieval problem of universals, and in John Duns Scotus' theory of individuation and his famous concept of formal distinction. RRP began publishing Rufus' exciting Aristotle lectures in 2003, after they had been lost for 600 years. In 2006 we began publishing critical editions online with his lectures on De anima; in 2008-2011 we will complete most of the massive second metaphysics commentary.

Grant: 191444 / RQ-50326-08,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Scholarly Editions,   Year Awarded: 2008

Translation of Arthur Schopenhauer's "The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics" and "On the Fourfold Root and Other Writings"

Recipient: Cartwright, David E (Whitewater, WI 53190-1790 USA) in affiliation with University of Wisconsin, Whitewater (Whitewater, WI 53190 USA)

Goal: Translation of four works of Schopenhauer to be published in two volumes. (24 months)

Description: This project is a translation of four books by Arthur Schopenhauer, Die beiden Grundprobleme der Ethik (1841), Uber die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom zureichenden Grunde (1847), Uber das Sehn und die Farben (1854), and Uber den Willen in der Natur (1854), each necessary for the understanding of Schopenhauer's philosophy and intellectual development. Because Schopenhauer's works have influenced major figures in psychology, sociology, music, literature, and philosophy, these new translations will provide reliable and useful texts for students and scholars alike. These translations will be available through Oxford and Cambridge University Presses.

Grant: 191390 / RZ-50899-08,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Collaborative Research,   Year Awarded: 2008

Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap, Phase 1

Recipient: Awodey, Steven M (Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3815 USA) in affiliation with Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA)

Goal: Preparation for publication of six volumes of the works of the 20th century philosopher Rudolf Carnap. (36 months).

Description: Rudolf Carnap was among the most important philosophers of the 20th Century. The early part of his career was spent in Germany and Austria, and the later part in the US; and his early works were published in German, and the later ones in English. Funds are requested to support the production of the first six volumes of his Collected Works, including translation from the original German of many of Carnap's most important works. Specifically, the Project Director (PD) will (i) collaborate with the German editors on the German text, (ii) collaborate with the American editors on the English translations, and (iii) coordinate production of the editorial introductions and notes to these six volumes of the Carnap Edition. The PD is an internationally recognized logician, philosopher, and Carnap scholar and a skilled bilingual editor, with a track record of successful prior editorial collaboration and publication.

Grant: 186377 / RZ-50745-07,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Collaborative Research,   Year Awarded: 2007

The Aesthetics of the Scottish Enlightenment, and Beyond

Recipient: Zuckert, Rachel E (Evanston, IL 60208 USA) in affiliation with Northwestern University

Goal: A three-week summer seminar for fifteen college and university teachers on the aesthetic ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment and their influence on near-contemporary German philosophers, to be held at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

Description: This three week seminar for college teachers, led by Professors Paul Guyer of the University of Pennsylvania and Rachel Zuckert of Rice University, is designed to afford participants an opportunity to study central works in philosophical aesthetics by figures of the Socttish Enlightenment, and their (near) contemporary reception in German enlightenment aesthetics. The seminar sessions will investigate not only philosophical theories concerning the nature of genius and of taste, and the varieties of aesthetic experience, but also the way in which these considerations inform, expand, and qualify broader Enlightenment political and scientific projects. The seminar will be based at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, which will allow participants to use the archives at the National Library of Scotland, the world's foremost collection of Scottish Enlightenment works. This seminar should be of interest to applicants in philosophy, history, art history, and literary studies.

Grant: 182070 / FS-50103-07,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for College Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2007

Bartholomew's World: Teaching Latin Through Medieval Texts

Recipient: Wood, Rega (Stanford, CA 94305-2155 USA) in affiliation with Stanford University (Stanford, CA 94305 USA)

Goal: The development of online and print tools for teaching intermediate Latin through medieval texts, introducing students to paleography and engaging them in the history of Western thought, particularly medieval natural philosophy.

Description: The Medieval Thought Project (MTP) aims to strengthen student skills in Latin and English by tapping into their interest in medieval culture. MTP targets Latin students ready to move past basic grammar into reading comprehension, but not yet capable of handling the complicated constructions of classical works. MTP will develop Bartholomew's World: three teaching tools that offer its target audience an introduction to the fun of reading and understanding Latin medieval works in their original context. These tools include an interactive website encyclopedia, a student sourcebook, and a teacher’s guide. Bartholomew's World will also offer a systematic introduction to medieval natural philosophy at an introductory level.

Grant: 181030 / EE-50338-06,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development,   Year Awarded: 2006

Richard Rufus Project

Recipient: Wood, Rega (Stanford, CA 94305-2155 USA) in affiliation with Stanford University (Stanford, CA 94305 USA)

Goal: Publication of a critical edition of Memoriale in Metaphysicam Aristotelis and preparation for publication of a critical edition of Dissertatio in Metaphysicam Aristotelis, the Latin texts of the 13th-c. philosophical works of Richard Rufus of Cornwall, author of the earliest surviving commentaries on Aristotle's natural philosophy. (36 months)

Description: Richard Rufus of Cornwall introduced the teaching of Aristotle's Metaphysics and Physics at medieval Paris, the intellectual center of the thirteenth-century western world. His far-reaching influence can be seen in works by Roger Bacon, Bonaventure, Albertus Magnus, and John Duns Scotus. Scotus' debt to Rufus, for example, is evident in his theory of individuation, his proofs for the existence of God, and his conception of formal distinction. Recently rediscovered, Rufus' works were unpublished for nearly 750 years. The British Academy began publishing his works with RRP's edition of his Physics commentary. RRP now proposes to publish his first Metaphysics commentary and to prepare a critical edition of his second. As these works become available, scholars will be forced to rewrite textbook accounts of the reception of Aristotle and to rethink the significance of early Scholasticism.

Grant: 175911 / RQ-50132-05,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Scholarly Editions,   Year Awarded: 2005

Art, Literature, and Philosophy: Cuban Americans and American Culture

Recipient: Gracia, Jorge (Amherst, NY 14226 USA) in affiliation with SUNY Research Foundation, Buffalo (Amherst, NY 14228 USA)

Goal: A three-week seminar for fifteen college and university teachers on Cuban-American art, literature, and philosophy.

Grant: 176896 / FS-50076-05,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for College Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2005

Translation of Immanuel Kant's Lectures, Notes, and Drafts on Political Philosophy

Recipient: Rauscher, Frederick Joseph (East Lansing, MI 48824 USA) in affiliation with Michigan State University

Goal: Preparation of a volume of English translations of Kant's unpublished writings in political philosophy. (16 months)

Description: This book will be the first translation into English of Immanuel Kant's unpublished work in political philosophy. It will include the only surviving set of course lecture notes on the topic, substantial excerpts from drafts of his book Doctrine of Right as well as from other essays on political philosophy, and notes and independent fragments from his own hand. As part of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant, this work will complement Kant's published works, enabling students and scholars to trace the sources of his thought.

Grant: 176306 / RZ-50490-05,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Collaborative Research,   Year Awarded: 2005

Latin American Philosophy: The Appropriation of European Thought in Latin America

Recipient: Gracia, Jorge (Amherst, NY 14226 USA) in affiliation with SUNY Research Foundation, Buffalo (Amherst, NY 14228 USA)

Goal: A four-week summer institute for twenty-five college teachers to explore Latin American adaptations of European philosophical traditions.

Grant: 171944 / EH-50032-04,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2004

The John Dewey Project

Recipient: Hickman, Larry (Carbondale, IL 62901 USA) in affiliation with Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Goal: Preparation of supplemental volumes to the Correspondence and Collected Works of John Dewey.

Description: This proposal covers a portion of a multi-year project whose aim is to make available to researchers and the public all of John Dewey's incoming and outgoing correspondence until his death in 1952, as well as relevant third-party correspondence both prior to and subsequent to his death, in verbatim transcriptions. Access is being provided by means of an electronic edition of the complete correspondence, including the supplemental volume (1953-2001) covered by this proposal. The award-winning first volume (1871-1918) was published in 1999 and the second volume (1919-1939) was published in 2001. The third volume (1940-1952) will be published in 2004. This proposal also seeks funds to prepare a supplemental volume to the Collected Works of John Dewey. This volume will be published on electronic media and will contain material, some of which is newly discovered, that was not included in the previous thirty-seven volumes.

Grant: 170746 / RQ-50084-04,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Scholarly Editions,   Year Awarded: 2004

Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks

Recipient: Kirmmse, Bruce Herbert (New London, CT 06320 USA) in affiliation with Connecticut College

Goal: Translation and annotation of four volumes of Kierkegaard's unpublished writings.

Description: An international group of well-known scholars of philosophy, history and religious studies will produce a critical, scholarly English language edition of the unpublished writings of the Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard. The writings, collectively entitled Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, will be published in eleven volumes by Princeton University Press in the coming years.

Grant: 170909 / RZ-50285-04,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Collaborative Research,   Year Awarded: 2004

Richard Rufus of Cornwall

Recipient: Wood, Rega (Stanford, CA 94305-2155 USA) in affiliation with Stanford University (Stanford, CA 94305 USA)

Goal: Publication of Memoriale Quaestionum in Metaphysicam Aristotelis, completion of editorial work for lectures on De Anima, and initial editing of Dissertatio in Metaphysicam in Aristotelis. (24 months)

Description: Richard Rufus of Cornwall played a central role in the transformation of philosophy which resulted from the reintroduction of Aristotle in Western Europe. Rufus introduced the teaching of Aristotle's Metaphysics, Physics, and De Anima at medieval Paris, the intellectual center of the Western world. Though he relied on Averroes, Rufus' perspective was critical, and his influence was far reaching. He influenced Roger Bacon, Bonaventure, Albertus Magnus, and John Duns Scotus. Scotus was indebted to Rufus not just for the concept of individual forms, but also for the formal distinction, which Rufus describes as formal predication. Recently discovered, most of Rufus' work are unpublished. This project will make available his lectures on De Anima, the work in which he first presented formal predication, provide camera-ready copy of his first Metaphysics commentary, and do about half of the work necessary to begin editing critically his second Metaphysics commentary (1400) pages.

Grant: 162828 / RQ-50003-03,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Scholarly Editions,   Year Awarded: 2003

The Intersection of Philosophy, Science and Religion in the Seventeenth Century

Recipient: Nadler, Steven M (Madison, WI 53711 USA) in affiliation with University of Wisconsin, Madison (Madison, WI 53706 USA)

Goal: A four-week institute for 25 college teachers to explore the intersections of natural science, theology, and philosophy in the seventeenth century.

Grant: 165519 / EH-50012-03,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2003

Soul and Substance in Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition

Recipient: Shields, Christopher J (Boulder, CO 80309-0232 USA) in affiliation with University of Colorado, Boulder (Boulder, CO 80309 USA)

Goal: A four-week seminar for 15 college teachers on central Aristotelian texts and Greek and Islamic commentary traditions in light of selected issues in modern philosophy.

Grant: 165501 / FS-50017-03,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for College Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2003

Aristotle on Meaning and Thought

Recipient: Wheeler, Mark (San Diego, CA 92182 USA) in affiliation with San Diego State University Foundation

Goal: A five-week seminar for college teachers on Aristotle's semantic and cognitive theories about how human language and human thought represent the world.

Grant: 108519 / FS-23299-02,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for College Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2002

Leibniz and His Contemporaries

Recipient: Ariew, Roger (Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA) in affiliation with Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Goal: A four-week seminar for college teachers on the philosophy of G. W. Leibniz in the context of late 17th-century culture.

Grant: 108484 / FS-23264-02,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for College Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2002

The Correspondence of William James

Recipient: McDermott, John J (College Station, TX 77843-4237 USA) in affiliation with American Council of Learned Societies (New York, NY 10017 USA)

Goal: To support the continuing preparation of an edition of the correspondence of William James.

Grant: 161766 / RZ-20693-01,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Collaborative Research,   Year Awarded: 2001