"In the United States, deaths of despair—from alcoholism, drug abuse, and suicide—have risen sharply in the past decades. Many countries have recognized levels of social disconnection so high that they have become a public health crisis; both Japan and the...

Tyler J. VanderWeele is giving a talk entitled "On the Promotion of Human Flourishing" at Sheila and Robert Challey Institute for Global Innovation and Growth, North Dakota State University, on November 9, 3:00 - 4:30 pm Central Time. 

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Program Director, Tyler J. VanderWeele is giving a keynote address at LIVING ACCOUNTABLY, Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture, Baylor...

Tyler J. VanderWeele's (Program Director) new contribution to "Common Good" entitled "The Good Life, According to Data" is now out (Issue 6). In this piece, Prof. VanderWeele explains the Program's approach to the subject of flourishing.

We are in fact trying to bring together the humanities and the empirical social sciences. And so we have on our program staff not only sociologists and psychologists and epidemiologists and statisticians, but also philosophers, theologians, and historians. We really think that knowledge about human...