PhD student position in deontic logic and medical ethics, Gent (Belgium)

The Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) of Ghent University (Belgium) is offering a full-time position for 2+2 years, for a pre-doctoral researcher, starting October 2016 (flexible, but in any case not later than December 1, 2017). It is part of the project "Towards a more integrated formal account of actual ethical reasoning, with applications in medical ethics", funded by the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO-Vlaanderen) and supervised by Joke Meheus (Ghent University), Frederik Van De Putte (Ghent University), and Christian Straßer (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

The project is situated at the intersection of philosophical logic and ethics. More specifically, the aim of this project is to lay the conceptual groundwork for a formal account for the explication of ethical reasoning, to develop and study deontic logics within that account, and to apply them to some real-life examples from medical ethics. For more information on the project, see the attached outline.

Deadline for applications: July 10, 2016. For more information see http://logica.ugent.be/centrum/. For any further inquiries please contact frederik.vandeputte at ugent.be.