Conferences
Initial Research Conference
We held our first research conference on August 11-13, 2022, at the Graylyn International Conference Center (www.graylyn.com), one of the nicest conference centers in the country. We had over 50 people in attendance at various times, including our funding winners of both RFP competitions who presented their research thus far, members of the Honesty Board of Advisors, representatives from the John Templeton Foundation, the Honesty Project team, Wake Forest faculty and students, and other interested academics and writers.
The purpose of the workshop was:
- to provide rich feedback to the project leaders
- to increase interdisciplinary engagement for all the projects, and also increase the interdisciplinary understanding of honesty for audience members, and
- to start building a professional network of philosophers and empirical researchers who are working on honesty in the hope that they will continue to interact in the coming years.
Final Research Conference
We held our final research conference on July 20-22, 2023, at the Graylyn International Conference Center (www.graylyn.com), one of the nicest conference centers in the country. The theme was “Conclusions about Honesty: Results from the Empirical Sciences and Philosophy,” and it occurred at the end of the funded research from the science of honesty RFP competition and one year after the conclusion of the funded research from the philosophy RFP competition. It was also timed to follow immediately after the summer seminar. The speakers were the PIs of all the funded projects, as well as at least members of the Honesty Project. Others in attendance included members of the Honesty Project Board of Advisors, a representative from the John Templeton Foundation, the Honesty Project team members, the 17 participants of the summer seminar, Wake Forest faculty, and interested academics.
The purpose of the conference was fivefold:
- to provide feedback to the PIs on their results,
- to suggest avenues for their future research,
- to educate those in attendance about the findings of the research projects,
- to disseminate the findings more broadly, and
- to deepen the professional network of honesty researchers which we have formed.
Videos from the conference can be found here.
