Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy of Religion (EXPIRED)

Applications are invited for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Philosophy of Religion and/or Analytic Theology, to work on the multidisciplinary project The Metaphysics of Entanglement, in Nature and in the Divine, hosted by the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. The project is directed by Dr Anna Marmodoro and has as co-investigators Professor Andrew Steane (Oxford), Professor Brian Leftow (Oxford), and Dr Christopher Hughes (King’s College London). The team will also include two full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellows in Metaphysics, and one in Philosophy of Physics. The project is supported by funding from the Templeton World Charity Foundation. 

The postholder will be located in the Faculty of Philosophy, and will work under the guidance of the Director of the project, Dr Anna Marmodoro. The fellowship is for the period 1 July 2014 (or soon after) to 30 June 2017, and is not renewable. 

The particular role of the Postdoctoral Research Fellow will be to investigate the metaphysics of the Trinity and of the incarnation, in light of the on-going research in other areas of the project and in connection with the project’s overall goals, as directed by Dr Marmodoro. The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will be expected to produce a number of publications as a direct consequence of his or her involvement with the project.

The successful applicant will have an outstanding record of research in Philosophy of Religion and/or Analytic Theology, with evidence of, or evidence of potential for producing distinguished research in philosophy, in particular in connection with the project’s research goals. By the date of appointment, candidates should have received (or have submitted their thesis for) the degree of PhD (or equivalent).