Expression of interest for hosting Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellows – Call 2023

The Center for Philosophy, Science, and Policy (CPSP; https://cpsp.univpm.it) at the Polytechnic University of the Marches, Ancona (Univpm) welcomes expressions of interest from candidates wishing to apply for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2023.

Philosophers, mathematicians, statisticians, and scientists in general are all equally encouraged to apply for cutting edge research in topics related to formal methods in the sciences, broadly construed: data analysis, measurement and evidence metrics, AI, scientific modelling, science epistemology, game-theoretic analysis of strategic interactions in the sciences, science-based policies, expert judgment (aggregation), Information Theory. 

We are particularly interested in forwarding our research on expert systems for probabilistic causal assessment, such as E-Synthesis (https://cpsp.univpm.it/research/projects/) – however any topic within the Center’s areas of research (https://cpsp.univpm.it/research/research-foci/) are welcome. 

The CPSP fosters partnerships with several cutting-edge research Centers (MCMP, CHESS, LLC Turin, META Milan, IMT Lucca) around the globe; the candidate’s project may be therefore embedded in a network of fruitful relationships (https://cpsp.univpm.it/profile/members/) within the Host Institution and in interaction with the network of collaborations.

Interested candidates in a joint application for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship may contact the Center Co-Directors:

Alexander Gebharter: a.gebharter@univpm.it
Barbara Osimani: b.osimani@univpm.it

Full details about the call can be found at: https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/postdoctoral-fellowships

The deadline for the application is September 13, 2023. 

You can either apply for a:
1. European Postdoctoral Fellowship: this is open to researchers moving within Europe or coming to Europe from another part of the world to pursue their research career. These fellowships take place in an EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country and can last between 1 and 2 years. Researchers of any nationality can apply;
2. or for a Global Postdoctoral Fellowship: this funds the mobility of researchers outside Europe. The fellowship lasts between 2 to 3 years, of which the first 1 to 2 years will be spent in a non-associated Third Country, followed by a mandatory return phase of 1 year to an organisation based in an EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country. Only nationals or long-term residents of the EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries can apply.

We ask interested candidates to contact us as soon as possible, possibly no later than June 1, 2023.

The Institute of Philosophy invites applications for the position of a Doctoral Researcher (m/f/d) in Philosophy of Economics (Salary Scale 13 TV-L, 65 %) starting October 1, 2023. The position is limited to 4 years.

In the context of the project “MODEL TRANSFER – Model Transfer and its Challenges in Science: The Case of Economics,” funded by the European Research Council (ERC) through a Starting Grant to Catherine Herfeld (Leibniz University Hannover), we seek to appoint a doctoral researcher with special interest in philosophy of economics and/or history of economics (ideally the recent history of macroeconomics). The project studies the phenomenon of model transfer and its challenges in science, focusing in particular on such model transfer processes from and into economics. In this light, one goal of the planned dissertation project will be to historically and systematically study the transfer of agent-based models into macroeconomics. 

Find out more about the project here:

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101043071

and here:

https://ercproject-modeltransfer.weebly.com

The position is also attached to the Chair of Philosophy and History of Economics (Prof. Dr. Catherine Herfeld). The position is remunerated according to salary scale “13 TV-L” (Collective Agreement for the Public Service of the Länder).

Responsibilities and duties 

The position is dedicated to the research that will be undertaken in the context of the ERC project. The successful candidate will be expected to work in a team, actively participate in all project events, co-organize events on the project topic and present their research at conferences and workshops on a regular basis. 

Employment conditions and requirements

To qualify for the position, applicants must hold an academic degree in philosophy and/or economics. The doctoral student (PhD) will be expected to have some training in economics (ideally macroeconomics), philosophy of science, philosophy of economics, and/or history of economics. They should be fluent in English; fluency in German is not required. 

The university aims to promote gender equality. For this purpose, the university strives to reduce under-representation in areas where a certain gender is under-represented. Women are under-represented in the salary scale of the advertised position. Therefore, qualified women are encouraged to apply. Moreover, we welcome applications from qualified men. Preference will be given to equally-qualified applicants with disabilities.

Please submit your application with supporting documents (cover letter, CV including a list of publications if applicable, certificates, a writing sample of ca. 20 pages on any topic that reflects your best philosophical writing, and two letters of reference) the latest by June 15, 2023 as a single pdf to 

Email: catherine.herfeld@philos.uni-hannover.de

or by postal mail to:

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
Institute of Philosophy
Prof. Dr. Catherine Herfeld
Lange Laube 6, 30159 Hannover
Germany

For further information about the available position, you may contact Prof. Dr. Catherine Herfeld (email: catherine.herfeld@philos.uni-hannover.de).

Here is the link to the original job ad. 
https://www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/6134?cHash=33c16fa582960a8b708eac6d32f1ccc4

Date: June 12-13, 2023 (Mon/Tue), 09:00 AM – 06:00 PM CEST

Location: HU Berlin, Schönhauser Allee 10-11, 10119 Berlin (4th floor) and via Zoom 

There is an emerging trend to think about mental disorders in terms of modal properties, such as dispositions, capacities, abilities, or skills. Sanja Dembić (2021) and John T. Maier (2021), for example, understand “addictive disorder” as a specific kind of disability or inability. Dembić (2023; ms), Tad Zawidzki and Garson Leder (2023) argue that mental health and disorder, more generally, should be understood in terms of skills or abilities. Johnathan Fuller (ms, chapter 3) argues that mental disorders generally are dispositions. While all of these approaches have some crucial commonalities, a unified picture of specific mental disorders and mental disorders in general remains to be found. The goal of this workshop is to bring together scholars working within these approaches to share ideas, find common ground, and discuss remaining controversies.

 Organised by Fabian Hundertmark (Bielefeld University) and Sanja Dembić (HU Berlin)

Funded by Human Abilities and Inductive Metaphysics 

Website: https://www.human-abilities.de/events/workshop_mental-disorder.html

Monday (June 12):

09:00-09:30                Coffee & Introduction

09:30-11:00                Jonathan Fuller (University of Pittsburgh): DSM Diagnoses (Generally) Refer to Dispositions

11:00-11:30    Break

11:30-13:00                Sanja Dembić (HU Berlin): Are Mental Disorders Dispositions?

13:00-14:30    Lunch

14:30-16:00                Kristina Engelhard (Trier University): A Metaphysics of Mental Disorders: Mental Disorders Interfered Mental Capacities

16:00-16:30    Break

16:30-18:00                Fabian Hundertmark (Bielefeld University): The Modal Nature of Mental Disorders: A Comparative Analysis

19:00              Dinner

Tuesday (June 13):

09:00-09:30   Coffee

09:30-11:00                John Maier (Lesley University): Addiction and Ability

11:00-11:30    Break

11:30-13:00                Sophie Kikkert (HU Berlin): On the Relation Between Ability and Disability 

13:00-14:30    Lunch 

14:30-16:00                Garson Leder (Medical College of Wisconsin): Medical or Moral Kinds? Personality Disorders and Skilled Self-Regulation

16:00-16:30    Break

16:30-18:00               Tadeusz Zawidzki (George Washington University): Looping, Active Inference, Attention & Metacognitive Skill: New Foundations for the Bio-Psycho-Social Model

Guest editors: Tobias Henschen (Cologne), Andreas Hüttemann (Cologne)

Topical Collection Description: The metaphysics of science debate is often characterized as dividing philosophers who endorse positions of “maximal” metaphysics and “maximal” anti-metaphysics: philosophers who believe and philosophers who refuse to believe that the content or practice of science is to be explained in terms of unobservable entities, that these entities exist independently of the content and practice of science, that explanations in terms of these entities are (approximately) true, and that we can come to know that these explanations are true, and the negation of this position. What often remains unnoticed is that the metaphysics of science debate has shifted: that the leading participants in the debate have moved toward more moderate positions – positions that can be referred to as positions of “minimal” metaphysics and “minimal” anti-metaphysics. Like maximal metaphysicians, minimal metaphysicians believe that the content or practice of science is to be explained in terms of unobservable entities (for instance, structure), and that these entities exist independently of the content and practice of science. But unlike maximal metaphysicians, minimal metaphysicians emphasize the fallibility of their positions and restrict their ontological commitments to some minimal set of entities. Like maximal anti-metaphysicians, minimal anti-metaphysicians believe that the content or practice of science is not to be explained in terms of unobservable entities that exist independently of the content or practice of science. But unlike maximal anti-metaphysicians, minimal anti-metaphysicians believe that the content or practice of science is to be explained in terms of phenomenal entities, or that scientific realism about observable entities needs to be extended to “unobservable” entities that (like subatomic particles) can be “observed” by our aided senses. The planned collection is supposed to describe the shift in the metaphysics of science debate by providing a forum for the various positions of minimal (anti-) metaphysics that have been defended more recently, for clarifications or elaborations of these positions, and for the arguments and methods that have been or can be employed in support or against these positions.

Appropriate topics for submission include

• presentations, clarifications, or elaborations of and
• arguments for or against

positions of (anti-) metaphysics that qualify as “minimal” in the sense described above, or in a similar sense. These positions include (but are not limited to) variants of

• ontic structural realism,
• pragmatism,
• conventionalism,
• neo-Kantianism,
• Super Humeanism

For further information, please contact Tobias Henschen (lead guest editor): tobias.henschen@uni-koeln.de

The deadline for submissions is 31 December 2023.

Submissions via: https://www.editorialmanager.com/synt/default.aspx

Tobias Henschen (tobias.henschen@uni-koeln.de), Andreas Hüttemann (ahuettem@uni-koeln.de)

Dear all. 

Submissions are now open for the 7th edition of HaPoC, to be hosted by the Faculty of Administration and Social Sciences at Warsaw University of Technology from 18 through 20 October, 2023.

Important dates: 

– Submission deadline: April 30, 2023 

– Notification of acceptance/rejection: June 30th, 2023

– Conference: October 18-20, 2023 

Conference website: https://hapoc2023.sciencesconf.org/

Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hapoc7

HaPoC website (with links to past conferences): https://hapoc.org/

About the conference: 

Since 2011, the biennial History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC) conference series has contributed to building an interdisciplinary community that addresses the topics of computing and computing technology. HaPoC aims to bring together historians, philosophers, computer scientists, social scientists, legal scholars, designers, engineers, practitioners, artists, logicians, mathematicians, each with their own experience and expertise, to participate in the collective construction of a comprehensive and forward-looking image of computing. 

For HaPoC-7, we welcome contributions from researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds who intend to participate in the debates on the implications of computing and computing technologies for culture, science, and society. HaPoC participants contribute from their respective areas of expertise and are open to engage in interdisciplinary discussions across multiple fields. Topics include but are not limited to:

– Historical aspects of computing 

– Philosophical aspects of computing 

– Ethical and legal aspect of computing 

– Social and cultural aspects of computing

– Computing and the arts 

How to submit: 

We cordially invite researchers working in a field relevant to the main topics of the conference to submit two items for review:

i. a short abstract of 180-200 words and

ii. an extended abstract of at most 1.000 words (references included)

Submissions shall be made through EasyChair under this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hapoc7 

All abstracts will be reviewed by the members of the Programme Committee.

We look forward to meeting you at HaPoC-7 in Warsaw!

The local organising committee

The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy invites submissions for the following event: 

How Should We Reason? Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives 

MCMP, LMU Munich

October 12-13, 2023https://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/events/workshops/container/perspectives_2023/index.html
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According to a long-standing insight going back to Hume, the normative and the descriptive are distinct in kind, so that it is wrong to conclude “is” from “ought” or vice versa. And yet, in a variety of contexts, the normative and the descriptive seem to be closely intertwined in many ways. Accordingly, the relationship between the two is as yet poorly understood. This is detrimental not only to philosophical efforts at normativity, but also to descriptive research that draws on normative concepts. This workshop will comprehensively discuss this intertwining. In particular, we are interested in exploring different theoretical frameworks for theory building and examining case studies associated with new normative challenges. In doing so, the workshop will not least promote interdisciplinary dialogue on human reasoning and argumentation. The workshop is part of the AHRC-DFG funded project “Normative vs. Descriptive Accounts in the Philosophy and Psychology of Reasoning and Argumentation: Tension or Productive Interplay? ”.

Call for papers

We have a few spots for contributed speakers. If you are interested in presenting your paper (20 min presentation/10 min discussion) at the workshop, please send a short abstract (about 100 words, no references) and an extended abstract of 1000-1500 words (including references) to borut.trpin AT lrz.uni-muenchen.de by July 1, 2023.

Please use the subject line “Submission: How should we reason?”, and do not forget to include your name and institutional affiliation in the main text of the email.

Dates and Deadines

Workshop: October 12-13, 2023

Deadline for submissions: July 1, 2023

Deadline for registration: September 10, 2023

Organizers 

Ulrike Hahn (Birkbeck and MCMP/LMU)

Stephan Hartmann (MCMP/LMU)

Borut Trpin  (MCMP/LMU)