[spsp-members] PhD position in philosophy of science (University of Amsterdam)

[Dingmar van Eck]

Dear colleagues,

The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) (https://www.illc.uva.nl/) currently has a vacant, fully funded, 4-year PhD position for a talented student as part of the project Benchmarking scientific explanation in psychological practice, led by principal investigator Dr. Dingmar van Eck. The ILLC is one of six Research Schools of the Faculty of Humanities.

Research at the ILLC is organized into six research units (Research units ILLC<https://www.illc.uva.nl/Research/Organisation/Research-Units/>). This project is based in the Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (EPS) research unit. Within the methodology and philosophy of science, this position will connect to the team's work on scientific explanation and methods applied to areas such as AI, Mathematics, Quantum Physics, Cognitive Science, Life Science and the Engineering Sciences.

What are you going to do?

You will develop an account of the explanatory power of scientific explanations in cognitive science. For this you will analyze and use philosophy of science literature on scientific explanation and explanatory power to select and investigate a number of empirical case studies drawn from cognitive science, understood broadly to include psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience.


Application deadline: May 06, 2024
Preferred starting date: Sept 1, 2024

Details of the position and link to the application can be found here:


https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Position-Benchmarking-Scientific-Explanation-in-Psychological-Practice/792180402/


All the best,

Dingmar

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