Jobs in Philosophy in Europe
The Institute of Ethics at Dublin City University is offering a four year fully funded (stipends & fees) scholarship in the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences at Dublin City University. The project will be supervised by Professor Bert Gordijn and Dr. Goran Dominioni.
Research topic: Climate change is one of the defining challenges of our time. There is broad agreement among scholars and policymakers that a cost-effective climate change action strategy should include carbon pricing. The design and implementation of carbon pricing instruments pose questions that have important ethical components. What type of carbon pricing instrument to adopt? What price should be put on carbon? What sectors to exempt? How should carbon revenues be used? This PhD project aims to contribute to the research on the ethics of carbon pricing by i) deepening the analysis of carbon taxes and emissions trading schemes by considering specific design features and ii) broadening the analysis to types of instruments currently ignored in the research. The analysis aims to provide recommendations to policymakers on the ethical design and implementation of carbon pricing.
Deadline: The strict deadline for application is: 17th of May (5 pm, UTC +1). Applications received after this deadline will not be considered. Shortlisted candidates will be invited for interview in the last week of May.
What to submit: Candidates should email their applications in a single PDF file to bert [dot] gordijn [__at__] dcu [dot] ie and goran [dot] dominioni [__at__] dcu [dot] ie with “PhD in Climate & Society” in the subject line. This application must include:
1. A cover letter outlining your motivation for applying as well as your qualifications for the PhD position
2. A curriculum vitae
3. A writing sample (for example, a copy of your Master thesis)
4. Names of two referees
5. A complete version of the application form
This PhD fee waiver is available only for overseas students, full-time and resident, with a start date of September 2021.
This scholarship will cover the difference between home fees and overseas fees. The home fees for 2021/22 are £4,500 and overseas fees are £17,000. Thus, the value of the fee waiver will be £12,500. The successful candidate will be liable for the home portion of fees, £4,500, which will be fixed for the duration of their programme, as well as receive a stipend of £6,000 per academic year.
Subject to satisfactory progress, the scholarship will be awarded for three years.
Successful scholars will undertake a package of training and career development opportunities. This will include a set number of hours of teaching or research assistance. The career development package will be phased in year-by-year and supported by relevant training.
Project: The Problem of Epistemic value
Supervisors: Dr Luca Moretti and Dr Federico Luzzi
Socrates, in Plato’s Dialogue Meno, famously asked why we should valuate knowledge more than mere true belief. This question has opened the ongoing philosophical debate about epistemic values. According to contemporary virtue epistemologists (e.g. Greco, Sosa and Zagzebski), knowledge is more valuable than true belief because it coincides with true belief arising from a successful exercise of the subject’s cognitive ability, or with true belief motivated by virtuous traits and dispositions of the subject. Other philosophers, however, have rejected the thesis that knowledge is an ultimate epistemic value, or the only one we have. Some think that acquiring true beliefs and avoiding false beliefs is the real ultimate epistemic goal (e.g. Foley), and others claim that epistemic rationality is valuable independently of knowledge and true belief (e.g. Kelly). Finally, some philosophers have argued that the sole ultimate epistemic value is understanding, rather than knowledge or true belief (e.g. Pritchard and Kvanvig).
The project aims to critically engage with this debate. The investigation should ideally find answers for the following five questions:
1) What epistemic values are there?
2) Are epistemic values intrinsically valuable or valuable because of their practical benefits? (Links with the problems of the pragmatic encroachment of epistemic notions, the debate on epistemic virtues and vices, and ethics of beliefs could be explored).
3) Are epistemic values subjective or objective?
4) Is there one ultimate epistemic value (monism), or more than one ultimate epistemic value (pluralism)?
5) What relations are there between ultimate and non-ultimate epistemic values (e.g. constitutive or instrumental)?
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the call for 10 fellowships for the newly established Kaete Hamburger Kolleg “Cultures of Research” at RWTH Aachen University (Germany) starting in October 2021 for up to twelve months. The Kaete Hamburger Kolleg “Cultures of Research” is, by design, an interdisciplinary Institute for Advanced Studies that brings together various branches from the humanities and social sciences, as well as from the natural, life, and technical sciences. The center's interdisciplinary research focuses on a better understanding of the transformation of science in the course of its digitalization, in order to make complex systems investigable. It is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research (BMBF) for 4 years. For further information please refer to the homepage: https://www.humtec.rwth-aachen.de/KHK
We are looking forward to your applications.
Kind regards,
Gabriele Gramelsberger and Stefan Boeschen (directors of the Kaete Hamburger Kolleg “Cultures of Research”)
This post is being offered under the UK Government's Kickstart scheme, and as such is only open to those who are 24 or under, based int he UK, and currently on Universal Credit.
We are a fast-growing provider of online (and normally residential) courses for children, primarily homeschoolers but also for gifted children, which is the background from which this business originates. Our most popular course is philosophy, and we also offer courses in debating and improv. Our Director of Studies, Jason Buckley, is also a leading writer and teacher trainer in the field of philosophy for children (see www.thephilosophyman.com)
The successful candidate will have a wide range of duties spanning content development, marketing and, after training, assisting in the delivery of courses. You will also be involved in routine customer communications and all aspects of running the business.
For full details, see the job advert at this link: https://limber.work/job/462/. Also see what we do at www.p4he.org
The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at
the University of Amsterdam has two postdoc positions on
abductive reasoning in natural language. One with a duration
of three years, the other for 25 months.
The two positions are part of the NWO Open Competition
project 'A Sentence Uttered Makes a World Appear---Natural
Language Interpretation as Abductive Model Generation'. The
successful applicant will join the group of Reinhard
Muskens. The aim of the project is to explore how semantic
values are assigned to natural language expressions in a
compositional way and how the resulting values, represented
as logical expressions, are subsequently enriched by means
of abductive reasoning. The latter is studied in a tableaux
setting.
Further details on the three-year project (Computational
Modelling of Abductive Reasoning for Natural Language) can
be found here:
https://www.uva.nl/en/content/vacancies/2021/03/21-173-postdoctoral-rese...
For the 25 months project (Abductive Inference for Natural
Language Interpretation), consult this site:
https://www.uva.nl/en/content/vacancies/2021/03/21-172-postdoctoral-rese...
Deadline for both applications is 5 April 2021 (use the
"Apply now" link at one of the sites linked to above). Those
interested in each of the two positions need apply only
once.
3-year, full-time post-doc position in the Philosophy and Ethics department (Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences) at on the general theme of “Opacity in Artificial Intelligence”. The successful applicant will join a strong team of philosophers who work on AI, in a group that focuses on technology, science and applied ethics.
Outline of the project:
In recent years, philosophers have shown an increasing interest in AI. One set of philosophical questions is due to the fact that AI systems often produce an output where it is not clear why this output was produced; the system is ‘opaque’ (non-transparent) to the subjects, users, and even to the makers of the system. This raises a large number of pressing research questions, including:
1) What, exactly, is opacity in AI? 2) What is the impact of opacity and what is its ethical relevance? 3) Should the impact of opacity be reduced? 4) Can the impact of opacity be reduced, e.g. through “explainable AI”? 5) Can we have data protection or unbiased systems if they are opaque? We welcome research projects on these or related issues.
The post-doc will work with Professor Vincent C. Müller and Assistant Professor Emily Sullivan; they will be part of a strong research group on the philosophy of AI and the philosophy of technology, generally. The Philosophy & Ethics department has recently hired four Assistant Professors and is advertising 3 PhD positions on similar themes together with this post-doc position. Our working language is English.
- Details on the official page -
At the same time we are also opening three fully-funded 4-year PhD positions on the themes of explainable AI, cognitive science, and philosophy of science/social epistemology. All applicants will be considered for all three positions.
PhD Position A: Norms of Explainable AI
PhD Position B: Cognitive Science of AI
PhD Position C: Philosophy of Science/Social epistemology
https://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/three-phds-in-philosophy-philosophy-of-sc...
Leibniz University Hannover and Bielefeld University (Germany) invite applications for positions for
5 Doctoral Candidates (all genders; salary scale E13 TV-L, 65%) in Ethics of Science and/or Philosophy of Science
starting 1 October 2021, within the Graduiertenkolleg (research training group) GRK 2073 “Integrating Ethics and Epistemology of Scientific Research”. The positions are limited to 30 September 2024. At least two of the positions are expected to be located at Leibniz University Hannover and at least two at Bielefeld University. Application deadline: 6 May 2021. For further information and our Application Guide, please see https://grk2073.org/apply/.
@TUeindhoven are looking for ethics lecturers, part-time but with very decent working conditions. Two different positions:
https://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/one-lecturer-in-philosophy-869729.html
https://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/-junior-lecturers-in-philosophy-869731.html
Department: https://research.tue.nl/en/organisations/philosophy-ethics/persons/
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Two full-time postdoc positions (24 months)
Philosophy Department, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 16 DECEMBER 2020
Topic: Theory Construction and the Empirical Social and Behavioral Sciences (TESBS)
Project description: https://bit.ly/TESBS-project
TESBS responds critically to the absence of sophisticated theoretical superstructures in the empirical social and behavioural sciences (ESBS). TESBS adopts a semantic view of theory structures. The central goal is to develop a toolbox for theory (re-)construction that enables ESBS scientists to formulate point-specific hypotheses, and to integrate or differentiate such hypotheses into theoretical frameworks.
Please see: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/577750 and https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/577769
Electronic applications should be sent to agnieszka [dot] kapczynska [__at__] pw [dot] edu [dot] pl.
For informal inquiries, please contact: Frank Zenker (fzenker [__at__] gmail [dot] com)
Dr. phil. habil. Frank Zenker
International Center for Formal Ontology (ICFO)
Warsaw University of Technology
Faculty of Administration and Social Sciences
Pl. Politechniki 1
00-661 Warsaw, Poland
Didactics and Methodology of Philosophy and Ethics