Oxford Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Philosophy, 2013-15
stuohey on Jul 20 2010 at 8:52 am | Filed under: *All Funding Opportunities, 2011 Deadlines, November 2011, Postdoc
Length: 2 years
Deadline: January 31, 2013
URL: http://www.newinsights.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
Comments: Research fellow will contribute to the Project on “New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology”; must have Bachelor’s/Master’s degree and be close to completion of PhD; the Project “ aims to bring recent developments in epistemology to bear on topics in the philosophy of religion in a way that will open up new channels of research in religious epistemology” and is “centred around, but not limited to, interesting and novel applications developing out of six main topics: (i) contextualism and pragmatic encroachment; (ii) safety and knowledge; (iii) epistemic defeat; (iv) testimony; (v) formal epistemology; and (vi) etiology of belief”; applicants must demonstrate expertise in epistemology and/or philosophy of religion, with evidence of the ability to undertake significant research in philosophy which will contribute to the aims of the project.