Two PhD student positions in philosophy, Bochum (Germany)

At the Institute of Philosophy II at the Ruhr-University in Bochum two grants for PhD students are offered, in the areas of 'philosophy of mind' and 'philosophical logic'.

Candidates for the 'philosophy of mind' position should be interested in working out a PhD in the area of the philosophy of mind with a focus on emotion, social cognition, agency or self-consciousness. The PhD grant is connected with a joint supervision of Prof. Albert Newen and Prof. Shaun Gallagher. Deadline for applications: 24th of March 2013.

The 'philosophical logic' position is associated with the chair of Logic and Epistemology (Prof. Heinrich Wansing) and comes with a mild teaching duty of one undergraduate class per semester. Candidates should have a decent background in the semantics and proof-theory of non-classical and modal logics. Deadline for applications: February 15th, 2013.

For further information, see please feel free to contact Prof. Heinrich Wansing (Heinrich.Wansing at rub.de ).

For more information, see http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophy/ii/jobs.html.de. Or contact albert.newen at rub.de or Heinrich.Wansing at rub.de.