Dear all,

twelve Elphinstone PhD Scholarships are available at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Aberdeen. If successful, the applicants will have their tuition fees waived for each year of their PhD, whether British, EU or Overseas. Selections will be made on the basis of academic merit. The Scholarships are reserved to full-time, resident students.

Further Elphinstone Fellowships might be advertised shortly.

THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION is the 31st of March 2017.

Our Elphinstone Scholarships are related to following specific projects:

EPISTEMOLOGY
1) Liberalism versus Conservatism in Epistemology of Perception
Supervisors: Dr Luca Moretti & Dr Fed Luzzi
2) Internalism and externalism about epistemic justification
Supervisors: Dr Luca Moretti & Dr Fed Luzzi

EPISTEMOLOGY AND ETHICS
3) Varieties of Epistemic Injustice
Supervisors: Dr Fed Luzzi & Dr Luca Moretti

ETHICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
4) Contemporary Questions and the Western Tradition of Moral and Political Philosophy
Supervisor: Dr Michael Laffin
5) The Secular, Liberalism, and Political Theology
Supervisor: Dr Michael Laffin

HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY AND CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY
6) Spinoza and the Philosophy of Time
Supervisors: Dr Beth Lord & Dr Stephan Torre
7) Spinoza and German Idealism
Supervisor: Dr Beth Lord

METAPHYSICS
8) The Philosophy of Time, Metaphysics, Self and Relationships
Supervisors: Dr Paula Sweeney & Dr Stephan Torre

PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY
9) Pictorial representations in the life sciences
Supervisors: Dr Ulrich Stegmann & Dr Luca Moretti
10) Experimental and model organisms in the life sciences wider significance
Supervisors: Dr Ulrich Stegmann & Dr Luca Moretti

FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SPORT
11) Gender Equality in Sports
Supervisors: Dr Fed Luzzi & Dr Beth Lord

PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
12) Wittgenstein on Language and Mind
Supervisor: Dr Paula Sweeney

You can find detailed descriptions of the projects here

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/research/postgraduate-study/elphinstone-phd-schola...

Please use the search mask at the bottom of the page selecting the name of the relevant supervisor (or one of them if more supervisors are indicated).

If you are interested in any project, please email the relevant supervisor.

Personal profiles and contact details are here:
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sdhp/philosophy/people-68.php

All the Best,
Luca Moretti