Fwd: POST-DOC POSITION in Logic and Philosophy of Science (Turin)

[Joao Marcos]

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Dear friends and colleagues,

we have an open call for a 2-year postdoc position in Turin (deadline is
fairly close). Please feel free to share with anyone interested.

Best wishes,

Enzo Crupi

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*POST-DOC POSITION in Logic and Philosophy of Science [deadline 23
november 2023] – University of Turin*

The University of Turin invites applications for a postdoctoral
researcher (“assegnista di ricerca”) in the field of logic and
philosophy of science, for a period of two years (24 months) within the
PRIN project “Reasoning with hypotheses: Integrating logical,
probabilistic, and experimental perspectives”. The candidate will be
supervised by Prof. Vincenzo Crupi, but is also supposed to collaborate
with logicians and philosophers of science at the Center for Logic,
Language, and Cognition (LLC), and Prof. Andrea Iacona in
particular, and to contribute to the research activities at the LLC.
There are no teaching obligations, but the candidate is free to acquire
teaching contracts in Turin or elsewhere, as long as they don't conflict
with his/her research obligations. Knowledge of Italian is not required.

Candidates must hold a PhD degree in logic, philosophy or computer
science, or provide clear evidence of obtaining it in the next months.
They must have a track record of publishing in English, be able to
demonstrate their research excellence and their ability to work on
matters concerning logic and philosophy of science, according to the
following description of the position:

/Much of our thought has to deal with hypotheses, namely, it must go
beyond the statement of isolated facts and direct forms of qualitative
inference. Indeed, much of humans' inferential activity in daily life,
professional settings, and scientific investigation relies on
hypothetical premises, or concerns hypothetical conclusions. The
position is funded by a larger project addressing these issues from a
variety of perspectives in integrated form for both topics and methods.
Formal approaches (logic, probability) are meant to be crucial for
philosophical work along with consideration of relevant insights from
other disciplines. Conditionals, counterfactuals, non-monotonic logics,
evidential reasoning, and rationality are all eligible topics of
research within the scope of the project./

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The postdoctoral fellowship (“assegno”) is exempt from regular income
tax under Italian legislation; only social security contributions apply.
The gross amount of the fellowship is ca. 25,000 €; this translates to a
net income of 1,800 € per month. Turin is a city with affordable housing
and living costs.

Applications will have to be made via the PICA online system
(“Piattaforma Integrata Concorsi Atenei”,
https://pica.cineca.it/unito/) from 2 november (h 12) to 23 november
2023 (h 13). Other applications cannot be considered. We encourage
candidates to familiarize themselves with the PICA system before the
final deadline and to submit their application in time. Interviews will
be held online at the beginning of December 2023 and decisions will be
communicated swiftly thereafter. The default starting date is 1 January
2024, but a later date can be mutually agreed if compatible with the
workplan of the funded project.

Anyone interested can submit queries to: vincenz...@unito.it
<mailto:vincenz...@unito.it>or andrea...@unito.it
<mailto:andrea...@unito.it>.

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Latest publications relevant for the project:

–Crupi V. and Calzavarini F. (2023). A critique of pure Bayesian
cognitive science: A view from the philosophy of science. /European
Journal for Philosophy of Science/, 13: 28.

– Crupi V. and Iacona A. (2022). Three ways of being non-material.
/Studia Logica/, 110: 47-93.

– Crupi V. and Iacona A. (2022). The evidential conditional.
/Erkenntnis/, 87: 2897-2921.

– Crupi V. and Iacona A. (2023). Outline of a theory of reasons.
/Philosophical Quarterly/, 73: 117-142.

– Iacona A. (2023). Valid arguments as true conditionals. /Mind/, 132:
428-451.

– Iacona A. (2023). Connexivity and the logic of reasons. /Studia
Logica/

– Vindrola F. and Crupi V. (2023). Bayesians too should follow Wason: A
comprehensive accuracy-based analysis of the selection task. /British
Journal for the Philosophy of Science/(DOI: 10.1086/716170).