Hiring: Postdoc, fixed term contract for 3 years

Phlox is hiring a new postdoc:

  • AOS: Metaphysics & ontology, and/or the Philosophy of language & logic.
  • Historical research in the above areas is also welcome.
  • Research interests that overlap with those of Benjamin Schnieder and/or other members of Phlox are desirable; as is the potential to contribute on ongoing research projects dealing with grounding, fundamentality, and truth-making. Further current research interests in the group include, e.g., issues in social metaphysics and ontology, fictionality, metaphysics from Leibniz to Kant, Bernard Bolzanoโ€™s philosophy, and more.
  • We are looking for a good teamplayer who enjoys being an active member of a research group, which involves joint research with other group members, participation in and organization of events, joint work on funding applications, etc.

Some essentials:

  • Duration of contract & starting date: The envisioned starting date is the 1st of April 2024. The position can be held for up to 35 months from that starting date (since the available funding is bound to this period, a later starting date would result in a shorter duration).
  • Salary: The basic salary is โ‚ฌ 4.350/month gross (with possible bonuses for previous work experience). In Austria, salaries are paid out for 14 months per year. The net salary can vary dependent on different factors. The standard would be about โ‚ฌ 40.000/year. (For more infromation, go here.)
  • Teaching load: Two classes per semester (each class having one session with 90 minutes per week).
  • Deadline for applications: 31st of October (the deadline may be extended, depending on how may applications come in by that date).

For the official job ad, including information on how to apply, go here: https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/University-Assistant-postdoctoral/993028901/. Please note that applications must be made via the job portal of the University of Vienna.

Hiring: Ph.D. Candidates (Open Call)

We’re currently advertising eight ๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ-๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ ๐๐ก.๐ƒ. ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ in the beautiful city of ๐•๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ง๐š:

[๐ข] The ๐ญ๐จ๐ฉ๐ข๐œ for the thesis is open. There are but two conditions:

[๐š] Since the positions are part of a project on philosophical methodology, the candidates should do some methodological reflections on their own research (which could, e.g., result in a methodological chapter or a section in the introduction to the thesis). Note that this condition does not limit the range of topics in any way: topics can be debates in any area, be it ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of logic, etc. The topic need not have a meta-philosophical focus at all.

[๐›] The topic should be suitable for supervision by one of the senior researchers in the project: Herwig Grimm, Angela Kalhoff, Tarja Knuuttila, Max Kรถlbel, Anne Sophie Meincke, Georg Schiemer, Benjamin Schnieder, Paulina Sliwa.

[๐ข๐ข] The ๐ฌ๐š๐ฅ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ for the positions is currently about 2.450โ‚ฌ gross per month, with a 4-year contract.
Note that Austria pays 14 monthly salaries a year. The net salary depends on several factors; without bonuses for families or other factors, it would currently amount to roughly 25.000โ‚ฌ per year. See here for details:

https://onlinerechner.haude.at/BMF-Brutto-Netto-Rechner/

[๐ข๐ข๐ข] The ๐๐ž๐š๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž for applications is the 31st of May.

[๐ข๐ฏ] For more information, including the application materials, see:

https://vd-philosophy.univie.ac.at/admission/open-positions/

Come and Join Us!

Phlox is hiring a postdoc, AOS: metaphysics, ontology, and/or philosophy of language and logic. Applicants must have obtained their PhD in 2020 or later.

The position comes with quite attractive conditions:

  • contract of 4 years, with a possible extension of 2 years after an interim evaluation;
  • one sabbatical;
  • 50.000โ‚ฌ research funds.

The deadline for applications is the 31st of October. Starting date: June, 2023 (a later starting date might be negotiable).

For further details click here.

Hamburg Summer School 2020

The Phlox Research Group and the Emmy Noether Group Relevance are delighted to announce that the 9th Hamburg Summer Schoolย  (20.6.2020-24.6.2020) will be taught by Francesco Berto (St. Andrews/Amsterdam). This year’s topic will be:

The Hyperintensional Revolution: Topics and Non-Normal Worlds.

Description
Possible worlds semantics (PWS) has been a 20th Century philosophical success story: it has been used to analyse fundamental notions such as knowledge, belief, information, content, conditionality, and more. The early 21st Century is witnessing, in Daniel Nolanโ€™s words, a โ€˜hyperintensional revolutionโ€™, as the open problems of PWS are increasingly understood as revolving around one issue: most of those fundamental notions are hyperintensional โ€“ they require distinctions more fine-grained than what PWS can easily model.

This Summer School introduces two approaches to hyperintensionality: (1) non-normal or impossible worlds semantics and (2) topic theory. Applications of both in formal semantics, epistemic logic, suppositional thinking, indicative and counterfactual conditionals, are presented. And some open problems for both views are discussed.

The course will take place from Monday, July 20 to Friday, July 24, 2020 at the University of Hamburg. For more information, please visit

https://hamburgersommerkurs.wordpress.com

Call for attendance
We very much welcome external participants to the Summer School, though only a limited number of spaces are available. If you would like to participate, please send a registration email, attaching (i) a brief CV, and (ii) a short letter indicating how the course would benefit your work, to sommerkurs (at) gmx (dot) de.

Registration is open until April 30th; we will notify applicants by the 10th of May. (Please note: Should we receive an extremely high number of applications, we may close applications at an earlier date.).

The registration fee will be 25โ‚ฌ to cover refreshments and snacks throughout the course. The fee will be payable at the beginning of the event.

Yet another Emmy Noether Group (and another open position)

Phlox began as an Emmy Noether group almost ten years ago. In the meantime, some phlox-members have managed to successfully apply for Emmy Noether grants on their own. After Moritz Schulz brought his project on Knowledge and Decision to Hamburg in 2016, we are very happy that Stephan Krรคmer will return to Hamburg by the end of May to start as principle investigator of a new Emmy Noether Group on Relevance.ย You can find more information about the project and the group onย this page.

Stephan has already advertised a three year position for a postdoctoral researcher. You can find the advertisement here.