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What is possible? Does the future really contain multiple alternative possibilities, or is everything determined in advance and inevitable? Where do possibilities come from? And how is human life shaped by both the awareness of possibilities, and the process of adapting to situations defined by multiple alternatives? This journal, Possibility Studies and Society, was designed to explore these and related questions. The current special issue is a result of a workshop sponsored by the Templeton Foundation in September 2022 aiming to bring together multidisciplinary scholars from different career stages to discuss the new science of possibilities. Against the backdrop of the countryside around Dublin, the contributors to this special issue discussed ideas relating to how possibility is a core facet of the human experience (Glaveanu, 2023a; Ross, 2023a) and aimed to lay some of the foundation stones for the emerging …