Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Cognitive Science of Values

The successful candidate will be based in the laboratory of Dr. Tania Lombrozo in the Department of Psychology. We aim to support a highly promising scholar with a background in cognitive science or a related discipline, such as psychology or empirically informed/experimental philosophy. The scholar's research agenda should address a topic that engages with both cognitive science and values, such as the role of moral values in decision making or the role of epistemic values in belief revision. The proposed research is expected to yield both theoretical and empirical publications. Candidates will be expected to contribute the equivalent of one course each year to the University Center and/or the Department. This contribution may be fulfilled by teaching a course on a topic related to cognitive science of values (subject to sufficient enrollments and approval by Project Directors, the Department Chair or Chairs, and the Office of the Dean of the Faculty) or service to the Project or Center of some other sort, subject to approval of the Project and Center Directors. If teaching a semester-long course, the successful candidate would carry the additional part-time rank of Lecturer. The postdoc will be expected to participate in a year-long research seminar for visiting fellows and Center faculty, as well as a year-long seminar for the Center’s cohort of Postdoctoral Associates. (Each of these seminars meets roughly every other week.)  The postdoc will also be expected to regularly attend talks, panels, and conferences sponsored by the Center.

The candidate will be appointed in the Program in Cognitive Science and will be invited to participate in programs of the University Center for Human Values.