Understanding Wisdom: Sources, Science, and Society

Evidence of wisdom can be seen in both perception and performance, in sacred scriptures and in brain images. An eminent group of scholars from fields as diverse as theology, philosophy, medicine, biology, psychology, and linguistics were brought together by the John Templeton Foundation to bring focus to this understudied areas of scientific research.

About the Author:

Editor Warren Brown, Jr. is director of the Travis Institute for Biopsychosocial Research and Professor of Psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary. Since 1982 he has been an adjunct professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine.