Postdoctoral Research Associate in Philosophy (4-year Postdoctoral Position)

Applications are invited from postdoctoral candidates for a temporary 48 months post of Research Associate within the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland. 

The Postdoctoral Research Associate will be associated with the ERC-funded project “BMoral: New Histories of British Moral Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century (c. 1690–1800).” This project aims to rethink narratives about eighteenth-century British moral philosophy, which to the present day continue to focus predominantly on male authors, despite overwhelming evidence that women participated in the moral debates of this period. The project will analyse a large corpus that is inclusive of moral writings by male and female authors and will shed new light on the intellectual networks in which male and female philosophers interacted. It will further examine what unique contributions women philosophers made to the moral debates of that period. By bringing together computational digital humanities research with traditional philosophical methods of close reading and interpretation the project intends to overcome the marginalization of women philosophers in histories of British moral philosophy and to advance methodological approaches to the history of philosophy.

The Research Associate is expected to have completed a PhD in Philosophy (or related humanities discipline) and  should have prior research experience in the history of philosophy, preferably with focus on early modern women philosophers and have research interests in eighteenth-century British moral philosophy. The candidate  will work in a team with two other postdoctoral researchers, a PhD student, part-time research assistants, and a part-time research administrator, led by the Principal Investigator, Professor Ruth Boeker, and hosted by the UCD School of Philosophy.