Defining Wisdom Videos


The links below contain edited video presentations from the Defining Wisdom Symposium in 2008, wherein the 40 finalists of the request for proposals competition, for which over 600 letters of intent were submitted, spoke for 15 minutes, giving a brief overview of their proposed project. These links also contain edited videos of presentations given at the Defining Wisdom Network Meeting in 2009, at which our 23 grantees reported on their progress one year into the grant. These videos have all been edited from 15 minutes down to around 5 minutes.

Videos from the Defining Wisdom Network Meeting in 2010 are now available.

Parag Chordia

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Assistant Professor, Music
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States
Project Title: The Muse Within: Understanding Musical Wisdom

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Melissa Ferguson

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Assistant Professor, Psychology
Cornell University
United States
Project Title: When Archimedes and King Solomon Meet Wisdom as Intuitive Problem Solving 

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Judith Glück

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Professor, Psychology
Alpen-Adria-University
Austria
Project Title: Wisdom and the Life Story: How Life Experiences Foster Wisdom

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Jean Gordon

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Associate Professor, Speech Pathology
University of Iowa
United States
Project Title:  Wisdom in Words: The Relationship between Language Use and the Perception of Wisdom

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Jeffrey Green

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Assistant Professor, Psychology
Virginia Commonwealth University
United States
Project Title: Wisdom as Learning From Mistakes: Affective Forecasting Regarding Virtues and Vices

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Joshua Greene

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Assistant Professor, Psychology
Harvard University
United States
Project Title: The Wisdom of Moral Principles

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Ankur Gupta

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Lecturer, Computer Science
Butler University
United States
Project Title: Wisdom Is Compression: Data Compression as a Mathematical Measure of Wisdom 

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Ryan Hanley

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Assistant Professor, Political Science
Marquette University
United States
Project Title: Altruism's Wisdom

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Matthew Jones

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Associate Professor, History
Columbia University
United States
Project Title: Formalism and Its Discontents: Mathematics and Wisdom in the European Enlightenment

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Lauris Kaldjian

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Associate Professor, Internal Medicine
University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine
United States
Project Title: Wisdom, Ethics, and the Medical Professional

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Sean Kelly

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Professor, Philosophy
Harvard University
United States
Project Title: Saving Wisdom from Knowledge

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Ute Kunzmann

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Professor, Psychology
Leipzig University
Germany
Project Title: Wisdom-Related Knowledge and Behavior during Social Conflict

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Michael Legaspi

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Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
Creighton University
United States
Project Title: Wisdom as Skillful Interpretation: Scriptural Appropriation and the Hermeneutics of Recovery

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Heidi Levitt

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Associate Professor, Psychology
University of Memphis
United States
Project Title: Principles Toward the Development of Professional Wisdom

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Seana Moran & Michael Connel

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Stanford Center on Adolescence
Stanford University
United States
Project Title: All the Wiser: Wisdom from a System Dynamics Perspective 

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Shabnam Mousavi

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Visiting Research Scientist, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition
Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin
Germany
Project Title: Practical Wisdom as Heuristic Processes

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Sandhil Mullainathan

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Professor, Economics
Harvard University
United States
Project Title: Wise Choices: The Interaction of Individual and Institutional Wisdom

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Eddy Nahmias

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Associate Professor, Philosophy, Neuroscience
Georgia State University
United States
Project Title: Free Will and Wisdom in the Age of the Mind Sciences

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John Pfaff

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Associate Professor, Law
Fordham Universit
United States
Project Title: Incorporating Systematic Sources of Knowledge into the Social Sciences and the Law

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Michael Sargent

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Associate Professor, Psychology
Bates College
United States
Project Title: D*A*R*IA: Testing Model of Principled Reasoning

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Valerie Tiberius

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Associate Professor, Philosophy
University of Minnesota
United States
Project Title: The Psychological Foundations of Reflective Wisdom

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Neil Tsutsui

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Assistant Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
University of California Berkeley
United States
Project Title: The Wisdom of the Ant: The Role of Experience in Sociality and Aggression

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