Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Philosophy

The Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) seeks to hire a tenure-track assistant professor in Philosophy beginning August 2027. Duties will include research, teaching and service. The area of research specialization is the text-based approach to History of Philosophy, with a preference for the Pre-Modern or Early Modern periods. 

We are especially interested in applications from candidates with a broad liberal arts background. Teaching responsibility will be a 2-2 course load, including the Program's Great Books seminars and its three philosophy courses (tutorials): Philosophical Inquiry, Ethics, and Metaphysics and Epistemology (see our website, http://pls.nd.edu, for course descriptions). The candidate may also contribute to other disciplinary-based courses in the department as appropriate and will advise undergraduate senior theses. 

PLS is a multidisciplinary, liberal arts department with roughly 125 undergraduate majors. Founded in 1950, it has its own tenure-line faculty drawn from different disciplines and committed to an integrated program of studies grounded in the reading of core primary texts. PLS students move through a seminar sequence from the ancients to the contemporary world and also take subject-specific classes in literature, philosophy, theology, fine arts, intellectual and cultural history, political theory, and the natural and social sciences. All PLS faculty teach seminars, as well as courses in their respective disciplines.