Agency, Rationality, and Epistemic Defeat Project, Messerli Research Institute (UK)
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities, in cooperation with the Faculty of Natural Sciences is offering a 37-month full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Philosophy and Psychology. The Fellow will work in collaboration with Dr. Giacomo Melis (Philosophy, Principal Investigator), Dr. Eva Rafetseder (Developmental Psychology, Co-Investigator) and Dr. Zsofia Viranyi (Animal Cognition, Co-Investigator) of the Messerli Research Institute (University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna) on a interdisciplinary research project entitled Agency, Rationality and Epistemic Defeat funded by the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship scheme.
The Research Fellow will be an early-career cognitive psychologist/ethologist at postdoctoral level with a keen interest in foundational questions about the mind and rationality, and of demonstrated high research achievement and outstanding research potential. They will be experienced in independent empirical behavioural research, will have developed research interests in animal cognition or developmental psychology, and will be motivated to engage in an interdisciplinary project with philosophical guidance.
The post is offered as a full-time appointment for 37 months to start on 03 February 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter. There is an expectation that work will be undertaken in the UK.
The closing date for applications is midnight on Sunday 01 December 2024.
Interviews are expected to take place on week commencing Monday 06 January 2025.
More information can be found here: https://www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-at-stirling/list/details/?nPostingId=4123&nPostingTargetId=4154&id=QUUFK026203F3VBQB7V79V7NE&LG=UK&languageSelect=UK&mask=newextstirling
Further details of all aspects of the planned project and posts can be obtained from:
* Dr. Giacomo Melis: giacomo.melis1@stir.ac.uk<mailto:giacomo.melis1@stir.ac.uk>
* Dr. Zsofia Viranyi: Zsofia.Viranyi@vetmeduni.ac.at<mailto:Zsofia.Viranyi@vetmeduni.ac.at;>
* Dr. Eva Rafetseder: eva.rafetseder@stir.ac.uk<mailto:eva.rafetseder@stir.ac.uk>
Closing Date: 12/01/2024
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