From: Lawrence Krauss 5 To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation®gmail.com> Cc: ' Krauss" < Subject: Fwd: Origins Programs Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:13:03 +0000 here is draft of a proposal I sent to Bamaby.. but of course I would be happier if Florida Science Foundation at least partnered.. :) LMK Begin forwarded message: From: Lawrence Krauss < fr" Date: November 29, 2010 10:10:29 AM MST To: Krauss" Barnaby Marsh <[email protected]> Subject: Origins Programs Barnaby: Hi.. will I see you in Dec? Just got back from Oz.. Here is a draft of a proposal for a variety of ongoing origins initiatives... let me know what you think.. Further to our last phone conversation, here are programs that will be supported by Origins on an Ongoing basis, including long term workshops, research, and outreach. I would like to request $1M/program to support these ongoing efforts over a 3 year period (i.e. $3331Uy/program/yr). I. Origins of Morality, in collaboration with Sandra Day O'Conner Law School at ASU and Cambridge University: We are embarking on a long term series of programs aimed at exploring the evolutionary origins of the sense of morality and then exploring the implications, if any, that these origins have for ethics or meta- ethics. We have already brought together a workshop of leading philosophers and neuroscientists, and ethicists to explore this issue, including, to name just a few, Simon Blackburn, Stephen Pinker, Josh Greene, and Peter Singer. (We also hosted a public event, called The Great Debate, Can Science Tell Right from Wrong, at which 2000 members of the public attended a series of presentations and discussions on this issue.) We plan to continue to explore this issue, bringing together an even more diverse group, including most importantly evolutionary biologists, to follow up on the issues raised in our initial workshop, for a series of extended discussions and workshops, both at Cambridge and at ASU. The goal will be to produce a co