Postdoctoral Fellow

Position: Postdoctoral Fellow

Employment duration: 36 months
Project title: Ontology of multisensory unification

The Center for Cognitive Science at the Jagiellonian University will hire a postdoctoral researcher to work with prof. Błażej Skrzypulec on the interdisciplinary research project ‘Ontology of multisensory unification’ funded by the National Science Centre, Poland.

The aim of the project is to analyze, from the perspective of empirically informed philosophy of perception and with use of ontological notions, the structural aspects of perceptual experiences. The structural aspects of experiences are understood as those which (a) concern elements which are invariant despite changes in presented entities, like the shape of a visual field which remains the same no matter what is seen, and (b) concern principles according to which presented entities are experientially organized, for instance the way perceptual wholes are composed of simpler elements and the rules of perceptual synchronic and diachronic individuation.

In particular, the goal of the project is to analyze the perceptual structures related to various sensory modalities and investigate the ways in which unimodal perceptual structures are combined in multimodal experiences. The questions asked within the project concern the spatiotemporal structures of multimodal experiences (e.g., what is the topological structure of visuo-tactile space), the compositional structures that organize contents of perceptual experiences (e.g., what is the visual or olfactory mereology), and the ways in which perceptual modalities present synchronic and diachronic sameness (e.g., whether vision presents entities as enduring while audition presents entities as perduring).

See this link for the detailed description of the project: 
https://ujchmura-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/blazej_skrzypulec_uj_edu_pl/EZjC1D9R72pHhnZceqK9yuYB-3WXkfm6GUEAukz_f2v4RQ?e=OTTgA6

See here for works demonstrating how the Principal Investigator approaches problems in the philosophy of perception:
https://philpeople.org/profiles/blazej-skrzypulec-2

Salary per year: app. 107 000 PLN with tax

Eligibility criteria

- A doctoral degree should be obtained not earlier than 2018 [1];
- The candidate cannot be a person who has been employed at the Jagiellonian University on the basis of an employment contract in the course of the last two years before the employment within the project.
- The principal investigator in the project has not been research supervisor/auxiliary research supervisor of the candidate's doctorate.
- The candidate's PhD degree has not been awarded by the institution planned to employ them at this post.
- In the period of remuneration within the project, the post-doc must not receive other remuneration from the funds granted within the scope of direct costs in research projects financed in NCN programs.
- In the period of remuneration within the project, the post-doc must not be employed by another employer on the basis of an employment contract, including by an employer with the seat outside Poland.
 
[1] This period does not include breaks caused by maternity leave, leave under the conditions of maternity leave, paternal leave, parental leave granted in accordance with the principles stipulated in the provisions of the labour law, or breaks during which sickness benefit or rehabilitation benefit in connection with inability to work, including inability to work as a consequence of an illness necessitating therapeutic rehabilitation, were received. For women, the indicated seven-year period may be extended by 18 months for each natural or adopted child.