PhD student position in cognitive science, Bochum (Germany)

The interdisciplinary Research Training (RTG) Group 'Situated Cognition' invites applications for 1 Ph.D. position for a three-year structured PhD program. The program will commence June 1st, 2017 and the candidate should be prepared to start as soon as possible but on 1st of Oct. 2017 at latest. The group is jointly based at the Department of Philosophy II and the Faculty of Psychology at Ruhr-University Bochum and at the Institute of Cognitive Science and the Department of Philosophy at Osnabrück University.

The PhD candidate for this position will be based in Bochum and work on an essentially interdisciplinary project with an emphasis on philosophical theory formation regarding either (a) situated aspects of perception, supervised by Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht, or (b) situated aspects of social understanding, supervised by Prof. Dr. Albert Newen. Ideally, the second supervisor will be an empirical scientist.