European Research Council Studentship: The Metaphysical Unity of Science (EXPIRED)
Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, University of Bristol
Job category | Graduate fellowship / Fixed term |
AOS | The Metaphysical Unity of Science |
AOS categories |
Metaphysics Philosophy of Biology Philosophy of Physics Philosophy of Science |
AOC | The Metaphysical Unity of Science |
AOC categories |
Metaphysics Philosophy of Biology Philosophy of Physics Philosophy of Science |
Workload | Full time |
Vacancies | 1 |
Location | Bristol, England, United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom |
Start date | January 2019 |
Job description |
Title of studentship: The European Research Council: The Metaphysical Unity of Science Location: University of Bristol, Department of Philosophy Eligibility: UK, EU and overseas applicants are welcome to apply. Applicants are expected to have a background in a field of philosophy relevant to the project in order to work with the Principal Investigator and the project team (three Postdocs) on the below questions. The main tasks are to complete a dissertation within four years and participate in organising the project’s events. Funding amount: £14,777 Duration: Jan 2019 – Dec 2022 (full-time) The Metaphysical Unity of Science (MetaScience) ERC Consolidator Grant project pursues the question of what, if anything, unifies the natural sciences. The project studies the question from the perspective of metaphysics and philosophy of science—metaphysics of science—by way of employing case studies from biology, chemistry, and physics. What does it mean for one scientific phenomenon to be explained in terms of another? Under what conditions does scientific unification take place? In philosophy, these questions are often discussed under the rubric of reduction. Typically, in asking whether one phenomenon reduces to another, we aim to understand what the ultimate or fundamental basis of the first phenomenon is. In the mid to late 20th century, there was a hope to reduce all higher level phenomena to fundamental physics. Yet, it was soon discovered that there are phenomena that cannot be easily reduced, so unification may not be available via this route. The project’s ambitious goal is to produce a novel account of unification. This is made possible by recent breakthroughs in the methodology of metaphysics, an area sometimes called “metametaphysics”. The project’s objectives are (1) to establish the criteria for scientific unification; (2) to conduct case studies of actual scientific reductions at the biology-chemistry and the chemistry-physics interfaces; (3) to study the role of dependence relations weaker than reduction. |
How to apply | |
Application type | Online |
Instructions |
Please make an online application for this project by visiting the University's webpage listed above. Please select Philosophy (PhD) on the Programme Choice page of your application, and when prompted, please enter details of the studentship in the Funding and Research Details sections of the form.
Applicants are also asked to send a one page letter of motivation to Tuomas Tahko ([email protected]) by the closing date.
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Web address to apply | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/apply/ |
Email to apply | |
Hard deadline | October 22, 2018, 7:59pm BST |
Contact | |
Web address for more information | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/philosophy/ |
Contact name | Tuomas Tahko |
Contact email | |
Contact phone | +44 (0)117 42 82297 |
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Time created | September 10, 2018, 9:40am UTC |
Scheduled expiry date | October 22, 2018, 7:59pm BST |
Expired on | October 23, 2018, 8:46pm BST |
Last updated | March 14, 2019, 3:00pm UTC |
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