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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.

MessageNachricht: 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

Speakers: Uljana Feest, Hannes Rakoczy and Suilin Lavelle.

For more information, including how to join via zoom, please see: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/replication/conference-replication-crisis-or-opportunity/

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

The newly established, DFG-funded Emmy Noether Junior Research Group “UDNN: Scientific Understanding and Deep Neural Networks” invites applications for one doctoral and one postdoctoral position at the Institute for Philosophy and Political Science (IPP) at TU Dortmund University (TUDo). Together with group leader Dr. Florian J. Boge, you will conduct research on the impact of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on science’s epistemology; specifically, on scientific understanding. 

The TUDo is a flourishing environment for research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its philosophy, featuring multiple opportunities for inter- and intradisciplinary cooperation. With the newly funded Lamarr-Institute, it is co-host to one of six AI-research centers funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry for Education and Research. Through the University Alliance Ruhr, it features close connections with researchers from the Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Duisburg-Essen, working in diverse areas and on various issues of AI in science and society. The IPP at TUDo is also host to several members of the interdisciplinary project “Explainable Intelligent Systems” and is in the process of establishing a new professorship for practical philosophy with a focus on new technologies. 

Both positions are advertised for up to three years. The postdoc position could potentially be extended for three further years, depending on your own as well as the project’s overall performance.

Requirements PhD position:
Suitable candidates (f/m/d) have completed (or are presently close to completing) an excellent Master’s degree in philosophy and can claim additional experience in either a natural science, mathematics, or computer science. They have an excellent command of the English language (good command of German is desirable but not required). Ideally, they can also claim some international experience, through studies abroad or an international study environment. They are willing to engage with researchers outside of philosophy (specifically: physics and theoretical biology). They also have excellent social skills and are willing to participate in, and contribute to, the project’s activities, such as: workshops, public events, regular project meetings, and online seminars. They are able to produce an internationally visible, high-quality PhD dissertation and present their work in international conferences and workshops. 

• Salary Scale: TV-L E13, 65%.
• Total duration: Up to three years.
• Given equal qualification, preference will be given to individuals from underrepresented groups, such as female researchers or researchers with disabilities.
• Further reduction of the part-time employment is possible in principle.
• For the official advertisement, see https://tinyurl.com/udnn-PhD.
• For further questions, please contact fjboge@gmail.com.

To apply, please send (i) a letter of motivation, (ii) your CV (incl. a list of publications, if any), (iii) copies of your diplomas and (iv) a short summary (2 pages) of your Master’s thesis to udnn.fk14@tu-dortmund.de, using as subject line the reference number w110-22. Closing date: April 3, 2023, 11:59pm CET. 
Requirements postdoctoral position:
Suitable candidates (f/m/d) have completed (or are presently close to completing) an excellent PhD in philosophy and can claim additional experience in either a natural science, mathematics, or computer science. They have an excellent command of the English language (good command of German is desirable but not required). They can claim international experience through research stays, studies abroad, or a background in an international research environment. They are willing to engage with researchers outside of philosophy (specifically: physics and theoretical biology). They also have excellent social skills and are willing to participate in, and contribute to, the project’s activities, such as: workshops, public events, regular project meetings, and online seminars. They are able to produce internationally visible, high-quality publications and present their work in international conferences and workshops.

• Salary Scale: TV-L E13, 100%.
• Total duration: Up to three years (+ potentially three years extension).
• Given equal qualification, preference will be given to individuals from underrepresented groups, such as female researchers or researchers with disabilities.
• Part-time employment is possible in principle.
• For the official advertisement, see https://tinyurl.com/UDNN-Postdoc.
• For further questions, please contact fjboge@gmail.com.

To apply, please send (i) a letter of motivation, (ii) your CV (incl. a list of publications), (iii) copies of your diplomas and (iv) a short summary (3 pages) of your PhD thesis to udnn.fk14@tu-dortmund.de, using as subject line the reference number w111-22. Closing date:  April 3, 2023, 11:59pm CET.

PROGIC 2023: Eleventh Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic https://progic2023.sites.uu.nl/

Utrecht University,
Utrecht, Netherlands, August 30 – September 1, 2023The special focus of  PROGIC2023 is Knowledge representation and reasoning.   Classically, logic and probability offer competing representations of partial or incomplete information, with the former assuming a qualitative perspective on uncertainty and the latter focusing on a quantitative account. Both provide their own policies for updating on new information, combining evidence from different sources, and acting under partial information.
We solicit submissions  that bridge these two perspectives. These could, for instance, apply probabilistic or other quantitative tools to the study of logical systems or use logical frameworks, classical or substructural, for understanding probabilistic approaches. They may also apply to specific sub-areas, such as game theory, network theory, causal modelling or machine learning. We especially invite submissions that combine probability and logic for knowledge representation and reasoning broadly construed.  
Invited Speakers * Didier Dubois (IRIT, France)* Joe Halpern (Cornell University)* Aybüke Özgün (University of Amsterdam)
* Jon Williamson (University of Kent) SubmissionsSubmissions should consist of a short abstract (~200 words) and an *extended abstract* (~1000 words, pdf format). The submission portal is at https://progic23.sciencesconf.org/

Dates and Deadlines
* Submission deadline: *April 15, 2023*    
* Notification of acceptance: *May 15, 2023*
* Conference: * August 30 – September 1, 2023*Workshop Websitehttps://progic2023.sites.uu.nl/ (general information)https://progic23.sciencesconf.org/ (submission) Special IssueThere will also be a special issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation devoted to the themes of this workshop. After the conference, we invite submissions of papers to this volume. The SeriesThe *Eleventh Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic* (*PROGIC2023*) continues the Progic workshop series
<https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/jonw/conferences/progic/>.  Committees

Program Committee 
* Niki Pfeifer (Regensburg)
* Jan-Willem Romeijn (Groningen)
* Marta Sznajder (Muenchen)* Gregory Wheeler (Frankfurt)
* Jon Williamson (Kent)* Francesca Zaffora Blando (CMU Pittsburgh) * Dominik Klein (Utrecht)* Dragan Doder (Utrecht)
Organizing committee
* Dominik Klein (Utrecht University)* Dragan Doder (Utrecht University)
Venue
The conference will be held at Utrecht University, in the historic city center of Utrecht.

Contact
All questions should be emailed to Dragan Doder, d.doder@uu.nl and Dominik Klein, d.klein@uu.nlAcknowledgements: We acknowledge generous financial support by Utrecht University’s Focus Area of Human Centered AI (https://www.uu.nl/en/research/human-centered-artificial-intelligence)

Call for Abstracts and Symposia Proposals 

Conference: 3-5 July 2023 

Location: Prague, Czech Republic, hosted by Karel Čapek Center for Values in Science and Technology (CEVAST) and the Czech Academy of Sciences. Venue: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, náměstí Jana Palacha 1/2, 116 38 Prague 1. 

Conference website: http://iacap2023.auletris.com/

Abstracts (1000 words) due: March 19, 2023

After the highly successful IACAP 2022 meeting at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara California (hosted by the School of Engineering, and in collaboration with the Markkula Centre for Applied Ethics), IACAP is delighted to announce our return to Europe in 2023 with CEVAST and the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. Given the improvement of the pandemic, IACAP is pleased to put out this call for abstracts for on-site paper presentations.
http://iacap.org/

Important Dates
Abstracts due date (new): March 19, 2023
Symposia Proposals due date (new): March 19, 2023
Notification of acceptance: May 8, 2023

Submissions link
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=iacap2023

Keynote Speakers
Covey Award Address – To be announced.
Simon Award Address – To be announced.

IACAP has a long-lasting tradition of promoting philosophical dialogue and interdisciplinary research on all aspects of the digital turn. IACAP’s members have contributed to shaping the philosophical and ethical debate about computing, information technologies, and artificial intelligence. The 2023 annual meeting will continue this tradition and will gather philosophers, ethicists, roboticists, and computer scientists and engineers interested in the following topics:

●       Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
●       Algorithmic Opacity and Bias
●       Artificial Life and Moral Agency
●       Autonomous Weapon Systems
●       Cognitive Science, Computation & Cognition
●       Computational Modelling in Science and Social Science
●       Computer-Mediated Communication
●       Ethical Problems and Societal Impact of Computation and Information
●       History of Computing
●       Information Culture and Society
●       Metaphysics of Computing
●       Philosophy of Information
●       Philosophy of Information Technology
●       Robotics
●       Virtual Reality
… and related issues

The meeting will have a main track focusing on topics at the core of IACAP members’ interests. We invite submissions of extended abstracts (up to 1000 words) as well as submission of proposals for symposia.  https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=iacap2023

Host:
The 2023 meeting will be hosted in collaboration with CEVAST which was formed in 2018 under the Czech Academy of Sciences in the historic city of Prague. CEVAST has a reputation as a leading European institution dealing with emerging issues in technology ethics.

https://pretix.eu/Konferenz/Klima/

Inductive Metaphysics: Insights, Challenges and Prospects
9 – 11 August 2023University of Düsseldorf, Germany

Call for presentations is open – deadline February 28, 2023

Inductive Metaphysics is a comparatively new branch of metaphysics that justifies meta­physical principles by inductive or abductive inferences from empirical evidence, rather than by purely logico-conceptual considerations. This conference intends to give a representative picture of the state of the art in inductive metaphysics and the current debate on this branch of metaphysics. The conference is organized by the DFG-funded research group “Inductive Metaphysics” (FOR 2495) in which more than 30 philosophers from seven German universities explore the prospects and applications of inductive metaphysics.
Please find more information here: http://www.philosophie.hhu.de/im-conference. 

There will be nine plenary talks given by: 

Karen Bennett (Rutgers University, USA), Stephen Biggs (Iowa State University, USA), Katherine Brading (Duke University, USA), Anjan Chakravartty (University of Miami, USA), Andreas Hüttemann & Gerhard Schurz (University of Cologne & University of Düsseldorf, Germany), Jenann Ismael (Columbia University, USA), Max Kistler (University of Paris 1, France), Oliver Scholz & Ansgar Seide (University of Münster, Germany), Thomas Uebel (University of Manchester, UK).Submissions of contributed talks

There will be 24 open slots for contributed talks (30′ talk + 20′ discussion).Submissions for contributed talks are welcome! Your submission should consist of a short abstract (100 words) and longer abstract (1000 words); please send your submission to: InductiveMetaphysics@hhu.de. Submission deadline: February 28, 2023.To participate without giving a talk please register by sending an email to InductiveMetaphysics@hhu.de. Talks and discussions will be in person; hybrid online participation as an audience will be possible.