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Postdoctoral fellow (EXPIRED)

Tilburg Center for Logic, General Ethics, and Philosophy of Science, Tilburg University

Job category Postdoc or similar / Fixed term
AOS Philosophy of Science; Epistemology; Philosophy of Cognitive Science; Experimental philosophy; Cognitive psychology
AOS categories Epistemology
Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Philosophy of Science
AOC Open
Workload Full time
Vacancies 1
Location Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands
Start date March 2015
Job description

The Tilburg Center for Logic, General Ethics, and Philosophy of Science at the University of Tilburg, the Netherlands invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship.
Candidates must hold a Ph.D by the time of appointment and demonstrate excellence in research in one or more of the following AOS: philosophy of science, philosophy of cognitive science, epistemology, experimental philosophy, or cognitive psychology. The postdoc will be part of Matteo Colombo & Jan Sprenger's research project titled "Bridging Causal and Explanatory Reasoning. Normative and Empirical Considerations" funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation, as part of the Priority Program 1516 New Frameworks of Rationality.  The project aims to bridge psychological and philosophical approaches to explanatory reasoning, with a focus on the following questions: (a) Is explanatory value exclusively tied to causality? (b) How could measures of explanatory power be fruitfully related to measures of causal strength? (c) In what ways can explanatory, causal, and probabilistic reasoning be fruitfully unified? While these questions are a central focus of the project, there will also be substantial opportunity for the postdoctoral fellow to influence the direction of research.

Details about the vacancy, along with a link to submit an application can be found through the webpage: https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/about/working-at/wp/

Required documents -- to be submitted as a single pdf file:

  • Cover Letter.
  • Curriculum Vitae.
  • A max 2-page research statement, outlining the projects/papers the candidate would like to carry out/write during the fellowship.
  • A max 5000-word sample of written work.
  • Graduate Transcript (Optional)
  • 2 letters of reference should be emailed directly to [email protected] with subject line: "postdoctoral vacancy"

Deadline: December, 20, 2014. Interviews will be held in early January 2015. Inquiries should be directed to dr. Matteo Colombo, e-mail [email protected]

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Web address to apply https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/about/working-at...
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Hard deadline December 20, 2014, 6:59pm CET
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Web address for more information https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/institu...
Contact name Dr. Matteo Colombo
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Scheduled expiry date December 20, 2014, 6:59pm CET
Expired on December 21, 2014, 6:59pm CET
Last updated April 21, 2015, 3:00pm UTC
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