from the University of Chicago News Office October 8, 2009 "Scholars from across the country are engaged this fall in a lively web-based conversation about the many aspects of wisdom, the subject at the heart of the University of Chicago Arete Initiative’s Defining Wisdom Project. The project is...

On the Legal Profession Blog, Jeff Lipshaw discusses the relationships of concepts like justice and wisdom to the practice and teaching of law. "There's a theory in cognitive science ( Mark Turner 's, primarily, but I have to continue reading to know how he and Gilles Fauconnier collaborate...

This recent opinion piece offers a critique of the project of defining wisdom, along with some thoughts about wisdom in connection to Asian philosophies. "Wisdom doesn't cling. It knows when to commit and when to detach. It is wary of extremes, tries to reconcile the opposites of the real and...

The Nov. 12, 2008 issue of the Templeton Report featured an overview of the Defining Wisdom RFP Project at the University of Chicago. The Templeton Report: News from the John Templeton Foudation is a twice monthly electronic newsletter from the foundation featuring itesm on current research, initiatives...

In November 2007, the Arete Initiative received over 600 applications for the Defining Wisdom grant competition. Applicants from over 35 countries submitted project ideas that represented practically all academic disciplines. This past January, the Project Council met in Chicago and selected forty finalists...

Grant seeks “wisdom” scholars for U of C. Chicago Maroon. By Supriya Sinhababu, Friday, November 2, 2007 Defining Wisdom, a project sponsored by the University’s Arete Initiative and funded by the John Templeton Foundation, is now accepting letters of intent from scholars seeking grants to study “wisdom...

Templeton grant to fund investigations into wisdom. The University of Chicago Chronicle . By Willliam Harms, News Office. April 12, 2007, Vol. 26, No. 14 The University will serve as the center for a new national effort to develop scholarly investigations into the nature, cultivation, benefits and applications...