PhD student or postdoctoral position in philosophy of mind and cognition, Bochum (Germany)

At the Institute of Philosophy II of the Ruhr-University in Bochum a position for a PhD student (65 % TVL) or a postdoc position (100% TVL) is offered in the area of philosophy of mind and cognition in the research group of Prof. Albert Newen. The position is available for a period of three years (with an assessment after the first year). The project will be situated in Bochum and developed in a close collaboration with philosophers from other RUB departments.

The candidates should be interested in working out a project within the thematic framework of the position determined by the research project "Constructing Scenarios of the Past: The Interdependence of Episodic Memory and the Self-Model", which focuses on the questions "How is the self-model constituted by episodic memory recall and how is episodic memory recall shaped by the self-model?"