Postdoctoral Fellowship in Technology Ethics

The Technology Ethics Lab at the Department of Humanities and Arts, Technion, is seeking a candidate to nominate for a Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Research Focus

The nominated candidate’s research would be part of the Technology Ethics Lab’s research focus on ethics of emerging technologies, investigating the interaction between technology environments (AI in particular) and human flourishing.

The fellow would contribute to research with two complementary components:

1.     Theoretical Foundations of Technology/AI Ethics: Contributing to the development of a shared conceptual vocabulary around ethics and technology; identifying and analyzing central ethical challenges posed by contemporary technologies, including concrete questions relating to the nexus of moral responsibility and technological innovation.

2.     Political Philosophy of Technology with Virtue Ethics: Theoretical research combining political philosophy of technology with contemporary virtue ethics approaches, examining our collective duties to human flourishing. The project will address issues of distributive justice as well as the meaning of concepts like human agency, joint action and human skill in the age of disruptive technology.

Requirements

PhD in one of the following fields: Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Technology, Political Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Social Philosophy. Demonstrated interest or involvement in technology ethics, contemporary virtue ethics or related philosophical areas. A track record of publications in the relevant disciplines will be considered a strong plus.

Additional Instructions

To apply, please send an email indicating your interest to project leader Dr. Avigail Ferdman, [email protected], with the following materials:

• CV (including list of publications)
• Writing sample
• 2 letters of reference

Applications should be submitted to [email protected] with the subject line " Lady Davis Fellowship nomination - [Your Name]"

For questions about this call, please contact:

• Dr. Avigail Ferdman, Department of Humanities and Arts, Technion
• [email protected]

The Department of Humanities and Arts, Technion, is a research community dedicated to humanities perspectives on technology and science, including the Embedded Ethics program.

The Lady Davis Fellowship is a highly competitive international fellowship program supporting outstanding postdoctoral researchers across various disciplines. The selected candidate will be nominated for the fellowship, which is awarded through a competitive Technion-wide selection process.