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H2020 ETN Diaphora: Early Stage Researchers in Philosophy (EXPIRED)

Department of Philosophy, Universitat de Barcelona (University of Barcelona)

Job category Graduate fellowship / Fixed term
AOS Epistemology, philosophy of language, methodology, metaphilosophy
AOC Open
Workload Full time
Vacancies 2
Location Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Start date 01.10.2016
Job description

The international consortium of the European Training Network DIAPHORA, funded by the European Commission under grant agreement H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015-675415 and coordinated by the University of Barcelona, offers 14 Early Stage Researcher positions in philosophy at predoctoral level. The positions are for 3 years each, starting 01.10.2016.
DIAPHORA serves as a European research and training platform for collaborative research on the nature of philosophical problems, their resilience, the resources of persistent divergence of expert opinion about them, and their relation to conflicts in the practical sphere. It seeks to address these issues on the basis of first-level research into a number of notoriously hard philosophical problems and foundational issues in semantics and epistemology.
Each of the 7 consortium members offers 2 positions that are tied to the respective research workpackage these consortium members lead. Successful applicants are expected to conduct their doctoral research on topics within the remit of the workpackage to which their position corresponds (as indicated by workpackage title and more specific areas below). Different faculty offer different supervision arrangements depending on their expertise in the areas covered by the respective workpackage.
Expected net salaries vary from country to country, depending on the standard cost of living and local tax and social security regulations. A monthly mobility allowance will be paid. Depending on marital status and family situation, an additional monthly family allowance will be paid. The amounts specified below include both the expected annual gross salary and the annual mobility allowance.

Department of Philosophy, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Workpackage: The Sources of Disagreement
Available supervisors (areas):
Manuel García-Carpintero (philosophical disagreements, philosophical method)
Max Kölbel (the semantics of disagreement, ‘faultless disagreement’)
Genoveva Martí (the semantics of disagreement, legal disagreement)
Sven Rosenkranz (peer disagreement, philosophical method)
http://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/
Expected annual gross salary plus mobility allowance: EUR 32,210

Faculty of Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Workpackage: Logic and Paradox
Available supervisors (areas):
Hannes Leitgeb (paradoxes of truth and denotation, vagueness, logical revisionism)
http://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/index.html
Expected annual gross salary plus mobility allowance: EUR 35,250

Institute of Philosophy, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Workpackage: Determinism and Open Choices
Available supervisors (areas):
Fabrice Correia (future contingents, the open future, (in)determinism)
Richard Glauser (free will, esp. in early modern philosophy)
www2.unine.ch/philo/page-6933.html
Expected annual gross salary plus mobility allowance: CHF 47,040

Division of Law and Philosophy, School of Arts and Humanities,
University of Stirling, United Kingdom
Workpackage: A Priori Knowledge
Available supervisors (areas):
Crispin Wright (recent scepticism about the a priori, analyticity, knowledge of logic, Frege, Wittgenstein’s philosophy of mathematics)
Philip Ebert (a priori knowledge, basic knowledge)
Sonia Roca Royes (theories of modality, modal epistemology)
Peter Sullivan (philosophy of logic, early analytic philosophy)
http://www.stir.ac.uk/arts-humanities/about/law-philosophy/philosophy/
Expected annual gross salary plus mobility allowance: GBP 28,688

Department of Philosophy, Stockholms Universitet, Sweden
Workpackage: The Nature of Representation
Available supervisors (areas):
Kathrin Glüer (perception, perceptual content, interface between perception and cognition, propositional attitudes)
Åsa Wikforss (normativity of meaning/content, internalism/externalism, knowledge of content, propositional attitudes)
Anandi Hattiangadi (foundational semantics, normativity of meaning/content, propositional attitudes)
http://www.philosophy.su.se/english/
Expected annual gross salary plus mobility allowance: EUR 37,200
Stockholms Universitet offers a 4th year of contract to the Early Stage Researchers it recruits.

Department of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Workpackage: The Structure of Warrant
Supervisors (areas):
Jesper Kallestrup (basic knowledge; metaphilosophy)
Aidan McGlynn (basic knowledge, warrant transmission)
Duncan Pritchard (basic knowledge, warrant transmission, radical scepticism)
http://www.eidyn.org
Expected annual gross salary plus mobility allowance: GBP 28,649

Institut Jean Nicod, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Workpackage: Self-Knowledge
Supervisors (areas):
Jérôme Dokic (feelings, metacognition, and self-knowledge)
Uriah Kriegel (phenomenal consciousness and self-awareness)
Elisabeth Pacherie (agentive self-awareness; practical self-knowledge)
François Recanati (mental indexicality, de se content, and the subjective character of experience)
Isidora Stojanovic (semantics and pragmatics of first-person speech and thought)
Frédérique de Vignemont (the spatiality and affectivity of self-awareness)
http://www.institutnicod.org/?lang=en
Expected annual gross salary plus mobility allowance: EUR 34,112


Successful applicants are expected to bring their doctoral dissertation to near completion within the 3-year period of their contract. They will receive supervision by experts in their field, be given the opportunity to present their work-in-progress on occasion of the network’s numerous network events, and receive complementary skills training designed to further their career perspectives inside and outside academia.
Successful applicants are expected to spend between 20% and 25% of their employment visiting other network nodes, including the network’s 5 partner organisations.
Of the network’s 5 partner organisations, 3 belong to the non-academic sector, while 2 belong to the academic sector with a remit outside academic philosophy. Internships at the network’s partner organisations, lasting between 1 and 3 months, are mandatory and intended to provide successful applicants with complementary skills training and insights into other fields of work.

Search for Common Ground, Brussels HQ, Belgium
SFCG is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to transform the way the world deals with conflict away from adversarial approaches toward cooperative solutions.
http://www.sfcg.org/brussels-headquarters/

Ideaborn s.l., Barcelona, Spain
Ideaborn s.l. is an international consultancy firm whose mission is to promote, and facilitate universal access to, Human Rights.
http://www.ideaborn.com/en

International Catalan Institute for Peace, Barcelona, Spain
ICIP is a public organization whose mission is to promote a culture of peace in Catalonia and throughout the world, to endorse peaceful solutions and conflict resolutions and to endow Catalonia with an active role as an agent of peace.
http://icip.gencat.cat/en/

United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility, Barcelona, Spain
UNU-GCM is a research centre whose mission is to contribute to good governance, cultural diversity, democracy and human rights through a better understanding of cultural mobility and diversity in the context of globalization.
http://gcm.unu.edu/%20

Academia Europaea Barcelona Knowledge Hub, Barcelona, Spain
AE-BKH is the Southern European and Mediterranean Office of the Academia Europaea whose mission is to contribute to the consolidation of a genuine European area of research, education and innovation.
http://barcelona.acadeuro.org/

How to apply
Application type Email
Instructions
Candidates from any country can apply, including non-EU countries. The following eligibility criteria apply: (1) completed university studies in philosophy, (2) master degree, or equivalent, by the time of appointment 01.10.2016 (Oct. 1, 2016) (the consortium is aware that in certain institutions or systems of higher education, no master degrees are awarded; the consortium will duly respect this fact in their decision making; candidates who hold no master degree but, according to the regulations of their home institution, could embark on their doctoral dissertation, are encouraged to apply.), (3) English language proficiency, in both written and spoken form, (4) 3 years prior to appointment the candidate should not have spent more than 12 months in the country where the recruiting institution is located (mobility requirement). Application material: The application package should include all of the following: (1) cover letter clearly indicating for which institution/workpackage the application is intended, (2) updated CV, (3) 2 letters of reference, (4) contact details of the 2 referees, (5) writing sample (5,000 words max), (6) statement of projected doctoral research which bears a recognisable relation to the theme covered by the relevant workpackage and to one or more of the specific research areas corresponding to the areas of expertise of the available supervisors (1-2 pages), (7) proof of English language proficiency (written and spoken) (If no proof of English language proficiency can be given at the time of application, applicants commit themselves to supplying such proof in case an offer is made.) Application procedure: Applications are managed centrally. All application material should be sent by email to the network’s consortium manager at [email protected] should send their letters of reference under separate cover by email to the same address before the deadline, clearly indicating the name of the candidate both in the subject header of their email and in the attached file name.If candidates are interested in more than one position, offered by different institutions, they should submit that number of separate applications with different research statements (each geared to the respective workpackage). There is no need to ask referees to send their letters more than once.The consortium strongly encourages applications by female candidates, candidates with disabilities and members of ethnic minorities. The deadline for applications is 08.02.2016 at noon (CET). Owing to internal UK visa regulations, the period of application for the posts offered by the Universities of Edinburgh and Stirling is extended to 23.02.2016 at midnight (CET). Offers are expected to be made no later than 04.03.2016.
Email to apply
Hard deadline February 8, 2016, 6:59pm CET
Contact
Web address for more information http://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/files/user77/145366186...
Contact name Chiara Panizza
Contact email
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Time created January 25, 2016, 9:37am UTC
Scheduled expiry date February 8, 2016, 6:59pm CET
Expired on February 9, 2016, 6:59pm CET
Last updated April 9, 2016, 3:00pm UTC
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