Welcome to the Defining Wisdom Research Network
The Arete Initiative at The University of Chicago has launched a $2 million research program on the nature and benefits of wisdom. Once regarded as a subject worthy of the most rigorous inquiries in order to discern its nature and benefits, wisdom is currently overlooked as a topic for serious scholarly and scientific investigation in many fields. Yet it is difficult to imagine a subject more central to the human enterprise and whose exploration holds greater promise in shedding light and opening up creative possibilities for human flourishing.

RECENT NEWS
The wisdom of engineers
Philosophical questions about the external world and our knowledge of it are almost exclusively raised from the armchair.
 
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
What is context?
This essay is an attempt to explore the ontology of context by elucidating its uses in the production of new knowledges out of the old.
Calculating Consumer Happiness at Any Price
For a couple of decades now, social psychologists and behavioral economists have been amusing themselves manipulating consumers into doing odd things...
 
Do judgments about freedom and responsibility depend on who you are?
The authors explore how personality differences relate to moral intuitions.
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Current Discussion
Lean on Me and Let It Be: Wisdom in Ordinary Language