About
The Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion
How the Project Began
Founded in 2019 by Andrew Chignell and Mark Johnston, the Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion (3PR) is an initiative of the University Center for Human Values (UCHV), in cooperation with the Departments of Philosophy and Religion at Princeton.
3PR brings together an interdisciplinary group of students and scholars who share a research interest in the philosophy of religion, broadly construed. The scope (“broadly construed”) is intentionally open-ended: the focus is on the philosophy of religion as it is typically practiced by Anglo-American ("analytic") philosophers, but we also include the history of philosophical thinking about religious issues, the psychology and cognitive science of religion, theories and methods in the study of religion, the philosophical study of non-western religious traditions, continental philosophy, and religious ethics.
3PR is directed by Andrew Chignell and Lara Buchak. It includes several other faculty members and postdoctoral fellows and is supported by faculty friends and collaborators in the Departments of Religion, Philosophy, and Psychology, and in the University Center for Human Values.
In 2024, UCHV and the Princeton Philosophy Department formed PRÉCIS ("Philosophy, Religion, and Existential Commitments in Society") to be the undergraduate- and public-facing wing of 3PR.
Opportunities
with 3PR
3PR sponsors multi-year postdocs and visiting scholar positions. External faculty who are interested in spending a year at Princeton associated with the Project are also encouraged to apply for the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellowship at the UCHV.
Princeton also now offers an ad hoc joint Ph.D. program in Philosophy and Religion.
