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Nour Foundation The Foundation explores expressions of meaning and commonality in human experience in order to promote a greater spirit of unity and understanding.

The Nour Foundation explores meaning and commonality in human experience with the aim of engendering a greater spirit of mutual understanding, tolerance, and unity among human beings worldwide. This exploration of shared commonalities is founded on a multidisciplinary and consilient approach that blends the sciences and the humanities to encompass larger questions of meaning and values. The concep

tion of the Foundation was inspired by the philosophy of the late Ostad Elahi, a contemporary thinker and jurist who devoted the whole of his life to investigating the classic existential questions of humankind: Who are we? Where have we come from? Why are we here? And where are we going? Such questions have been discussed for millennia, with as many answers and variations as there are peoples and cultures. The central objective of the Nour Foundation is to stimulate rational discourse on these existential questions from an interdisciplinary perspective that is rooted not only in sound academic theories, but in the shared commonality of our personal experience as well.

Tonight at The Morgan Library & Museum: “Becoming Human: An Elusive Pursuit” Steve Paulson in conversation with Elie Dur...
10/04/2025

Tonight at The Morgan Library & Museum: “Becoming Human: An Elusive Pursuit” Steve Paulson in conversation with Elie During.

Tonight at the Musical Instrument Galleries at the MET: traditional Kurdish music featuring members of the Razbar Ensemb...
08/03/2025

Tonight at the Musical Instrument Galleries at the MET: traditional Kurdish music featuring members of the Razbar Ensemble

Tonight at The Morgan Library & Museum: “A Cognitive Revolution: From Language to AI” Steve Paulson in conversation with...
12/02/2025

Tonight at The Morgan Library & Museum: “A Cognitive Revolution: From Language to AI” Steve Paulson in conversation with Tania Lombrozo.

Tonight at The Morgan Library & Museum: “From Biology to Culture: The Evolution of Goodness” Steve Paulson in conversati...
15/11/2024

Tonight at The Morgan Library & Museum: “From Biology to Culture: The Evolution of Goodness” Steve Paulson in conversation with David Sloan Wilson.

Tonight at The Morgan Library & Museum: "Rethinking Mortality: Exploring the Intersection of Life and Death" Steve Pauls...
08/02/2024

Tonight at The Morgan Library & Museum: "Rethinking Mortality: Exploring the Intersection of Life and Death" Steve Paulson in conversation with Dr. Sam Parnia

Tonight at The Morgan Library & Museum: "Spiritual Materialism: Transcendent Encounters with the Sacred" A Conversation ...
06/12/2023

Tonight at The Morgan Library & Museum: "Spiritual Materialism: Transcendent Encounters with the Sacred" A Conversation with Alan Lightman

Tonight’s panel “Cultivating the Mind: Reason and the Pursuit of Ethical Transformation” is moderated by Steve Paulson a...
16/02/2023

Tonight’s panel “Cultivating the Mind: Reason and the Pursuit of Ethical Transformation” is moderated by Steve Paulson and features psychologist and neurobiologist Richard Davidson, classics scholar Edith Hall, and psychologist Dacher Keltner.

Tonight’s panel “Fathoming the Mind: A Closer Look at the Formation of Self” is moderated by Steve Paulson and features ...
18/01/2023

Tonight’s panel “Fathoming the Mind: A Closer Look at the Formation of Self” is moderated by Steve Paulson and features philosopher Tamar Szabó Gendler, ecologist Carl Safina, and biologist Kenneth R. Miller

Tonight's panel "Unraveling the Mind: The Mystery of Consciousness" is moderated by Steve Paulson and features philosoph...
18/11/2022

Tonight's panel "Unraveling the Mind: The Mystery of Consciousness" is moderated by Steve Paulson and features philosophers Ned Block, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein and Philip Goff

05/02/2020

Psychologist Piercarlo Valdesolo and professor of religious studies Lisa Sideris discuss whether one can cultivate being open to experiences of awe and wonder.

This is an excerpt from “Beyond Oneself: The Ethics and Psychology of Awe“ recorded on December 4, 2019 at The New York Academy of Sciences. For the video of the complete discussion see: https://youtu.be/mnTaEs7emKY

05/02/2020

Professor of religious studies Lisa Sideris and psychologist Jennifer Stellar discuss whether awe and wonder are emotional or cognitive experiences.

This is an excerpt from “Beyond Oneself: The Ethics and Psychology of Awe“ recorded on December 4, 2019 at The New York Academy of Sciences. For the video of the complete discussion see: https://youtu.be/mnTaEs7emKY

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