The Foundation for Philosophical Orientation (FPO) annually provides 12-month long fellowships of $30,000 for dissertation projects that expand research concerning orientation.

Orientation precedes everything else, all perceiving, thinking, and acting, and its conditions and structures may thus be explored from various disciplinary viewpoints and methodological approaches. The Foundation for Philosophical Orientation (FPO) primarily supports innovative dissertations in the wider field of philosophical scholarship, but also outstanding projects in any academic field (in the humanities, the social sciences, as well as the natural sciences, including biology, psychology, sociology, or astrophysics) if they make significant contributions to the philosophy of orientation.

Eligibility

  • No citizenship restrictions.
  • Candidates must be in the writing stage of their dissertation by the time the fellowship begins; this means all pre-dissertation requirements must be complete by the start date.

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