The University of Arizona in Tucson has announced a $2.9 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation in support of its Center for the Philosophy of Freedom.

The funding will allow the center to collaborate with the undergraduate degree program in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law in hiring a postdoctoral fellow and build a network of philosophy, politics, and economics programs spanning several universities and countries. In addition, the gift will enable the center to expand its publishing program and support its editorship of Social Philosophy and Policy, which has the highest circulation among Anglo-American philosophy journals in the Western world.

"The UA's political philosophy program has been ranked No. 1 in the world for several years running, which is due in no small part to the strength of the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom," said John Paul Jones, dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. "This generous gift will not only benefit the center, it will also facilitate the exciting collaboration between the center and the UA’s top-ranked Eller College of Management and McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship. These researchers’ efforts to reinvent their fields illustrate the UA’s continued leadership in interdisciplinary scholarship."