Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Linguistic Agency

A Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1352) is vacant at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN) at the University of Oslo (UiO).

The research activities at CSMN are organized in three branches: Linguistic Agency, Moral Agency and Rational Agency. CSMN is looking for a post-doctoral fellow to work within the Linguistic Agency branch.We encourage applications from candidates with a strong background in philosophy of language or linguistics who propose to work on one or more of the following topics:

Normative and applied approaches to issues in philosophy of language and semantics
Metasemantics, the de se, expressivism, and speech act pluralism.
Ostensive communication, developmental pragmatics and speaker's meaning
Lexical semantics and pragmatics, figurative utterances and metarepresentation.

The successful candidate will work on topics that can be integrated into CSMN's wider research portfolio. The candidate will be expected to have his/her residence and work place in Oslo, to participate in the various workshops and conferences organized by CSMN, and to be active members of the CSMN team in Oslo.

The post is available for a period of two years starting Spring/Summer 2014. The main purpose of post-doctoral research fellowships is to qualify researchers for work in higher academic positions within their disciplines.