One-year postdoc on "Reconceptualizations of Nature", Paris, France

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From: Roberto Casati <roberto...@ENS.FR>

If you know of someone who may consider applying, in particular for position 9  please let me know!

Roberto

The EHESS is offering 10 one-year post-doctoral positions. Gross monthly salary: 2365€.

All candidates must have defended their theses between January 1, 2018 and January 31, 2021.

This offer is not open to PhD’s from the EHESS or EHESS-associated institutions. Candidates must never have been an associate member or recruited in one of the research units under the supervision of EHESS.

We are recruiting researchers who study the following topics:

1. Human societies and environment
2. Histories of the Making and Non-European Technical Knowledge
3. War Experiences, Institutions and Social Boundaries
4. Populism and Social Sciences
5. Regulating National Diversity in Communism
6. History of Financing Energy and Environmental Transitions  
7. Gender, health and violence in Asia and Africa
8. Language and society in North Africa
9. Re-conceptualizations of Nature
10. Sensibilities in Social Sciences

More information and apply

Reconceptualizations of Nature: This profile is aimed at young researchers working on the transformational levers to change the way we think about nature, using philosophical techniques of conceptual negotiation and reconceptualization, as well as anthropological and historical data, to assist in the design of behavioral change strategies at the individual and collective level - whether in law, business, education, or policy development. If, on the one hand, the environment as a whole is considered an unlimited resource through extractive approaches (free movement, unconstrained use of water and resources, of the seabed, of biomass, of carbon and heat capture, of pollution discharge), and its protection escapes a logic of purely economic incentives, on the other hand, because of its physical characteristics, scale, diversity, and multiplicity of constituencies, it does not easily fit into innovative approaches to law (such as the attribution of legal personality to natural entities), education (difficulty of individual engagement), and business practices (conflicting interests of different constituencies). Existing approaches to behavioral change end up into an "ecology of the small gesture" whose effects are several orders of magnitude below the needs of the historical moment. The main objective is then to examine and bring together existing and new perspectives on the environment, reconceptualizations of it, from climate science, geography, biology, history, navigation, sensitive and special needs communities, in order to lay down the foundations for and validation of new conceptual tools.

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Roberto Casati, CNRS, EHESS

Director, Institut Jean Nicod,
Département d’études cognitives, ENS, EHESS, CNRS, PSL University, UMR 8129
29 rue d'Ulm
75005 Paris, France

ANR-17-EURE-0017 FrontCog
ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02 PSL

Member, Academia Europaea

orcid.org/0000-0001-8215-6428

NEW: CasatiCavanagh, TheVisualWorldOfShadows, MIT PRESS 2019