Research Fellow (PostDoc)

HU Berlin, Faculty of Arts and Humanities - Department of Philosophy

Research Fellow (PostDoc) (m/f/d) with full-time employment - E 13 TV-L HU (third-party funding limited for 12 months, expected dates January 2025 to December 2025)

The Emmy-Noether research group "A Sensible World", to be funded by the DFG for up to six years (2020-2026), aims to study the debates on secondary qualities that took place in and around the School of Brentano. It will analyze these debates in all their richness and complexity, and thus explore this issue through a broad network of authors: in Franz Brentano himself and his closest pupils Anton Marty and Carl Stumpf, in Alexius Meinong and his heirs Alois Höfler and Stephan Witasek, and in Edmund Husserl and his early students Adolf Reinach and Edith Stein, among many others. The research group will study the novel, but still little-known inquiries conducted within this network of authors on the phenomenology, metaphysics, and epistemology of secondary qualities, and consequently on the relation between our naive and scientific worldviews. For more information on the project, please visit its website: www.a-sensible-world.net.

job profile
- scientific work in topics related to the project "A Sensible World"
- collaboration in the translation in English of (German) texts of early phenomenologists
- preparation for further academic qualification (widening of scholarly expertise in philosophy)

requirements
- completed university degree and PhD in philosophy
- research experience in nineteenth and twentieth century philosophy, including phenomenology, and in contemporary theories of colors and other sensory qualities and/or in issues about the naive and the scientific worldviews and/or in perception
- excellent knowledge of English and German (both oral and written)

Please send your application (letter of motivation, CV, relevant diplomas, research plan of 1,000 words max. on the topics of the project ‘A Sensible World’, writing sample of 8,000 words max. and a recommendation letter) until 30 September 2024, quoting the reference number DR/107/24 to Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Philosophy, Dr. Hamid Taieb, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin or preferably by E-Mail in one PDF-file to: [email protected].

The letter of recommendation should be sent separately and directly by its author to [email protected].

The Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is seeking to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching, and specifically encourages qualified female scholars to apply. Severely disabled applicants with equivalent qualifications will be given preferential consideration. People with an immigration history are specifically encouraged to apply. Since we will not return your documents, please submit copies in the application only.

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