4-year PhD Fellowship (ERC Project "Making Scientific Inferences More Objective") (EXPIRED)

The Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS) at Tilburg University, The Netherlands, invites applications for a four-year PhD position (1,0 fte) in philosophy of science, starting 1 September 2015 or later this year.

Candidates must hold a MA/MSc degree or equivalent by the time of appointment. Apart from philosophy graduates, candidates with degrees in other relevant disciplines (e.g., mathematics, psychology) are welcome if they can demonstrate a high level of familiarity with philosophy of science.

The PhD position is funded by the European Research Council (ERC), through a Starting Investigator Grant for Jan Sprenger's research project “Making Scientific Inferences More Objective”. The project searches for ways to make statistical, explanatory and causal inferences more objective. The candidate should be able to demonstrate how his/her past research relates to these modes of inference. The candidate should also be familiar with several of the project's methods (though not necessarily all of them): conceptual analysis, formal modeling, psychological experiments, and case studies in medicine. For a précis of the research project, see www.laeuferpaar.de/SynopsisERCProject.pdf.

 The selected candidate will be a member of the Department of Philosophy and of TiLPS, an internationally renowned center for innovative and scientifically minded philosophical research. TiLPS sustains a large international network and regularly organizes conferences, workshops and seminars in philosophy of science and other areas of philosophy.

 The deadline for applications is 10 July 2015. Skype interviews will be held on 16 and 17 July. Candidates will be notified as soon as possible thereafter.