Marianne Janack, the Sidney Wertimer Associate Professor of Philosophy, has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant from its Science and Society division. The $93,000 grant is to support work on her book on the metaphysics of experience and the theory of mind. The book is titled The Educability of Experience: Value, Theory, and the Problem of Objectivity.
The NSF is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…" With an annual budget of about $6.06 billion, it is the funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities. In many fields such as mathematics, computer science and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal backing.
