[PHILOS-L] PHD FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY, 4 YEARS
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PHD FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY, 4 YEARS
Spanish National Research Council, Institute of Philosophy / UNED, METIS research group - Madrid
A four-year predoctoral fellowship (FPI) is offered in association with the research project “Conceptual Engineering and Communicative Disruptions: between Semantics and Pragmatics” (PID2024-157224NB-I00), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and FEDER, UE (PIs: Delia Belleri (CSIC) (delia....@cchs.csic.es<mailto:delia....@cchs.csic.es>), Claudia Picazo (UNED) (cpi...@fsof.uned.es<mailto:cpi...@fsof.uned.es>)).
The successful applicant is expected to develop a doctoral thesis on topics that align with the project's objectives (see below) under the supervision of one or both of the PIs, as well as to participate in the project's activities (reading groups, workshops). A requirement for candidates is a good command of English. For information on the project's contents and objectives, see below.
The predoctoral contract terms are those established in the PID2024 call for applications (see Article 21 of Law 14/2011, on Science, Technology and Innovation). (For illustrative purposes only, the most recent contracts of this type at the CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) paid EUR 19,574.52 in the first year and EUR 24,468.15 in the second and subsequent years.)
APPLICATION PERIOD
From 19/12/2025 to 08/01/2026.
TO APPLY:
The applicant should consult the call page: https://sede.csic.gob.es/tramites/convocatorias-de-personal/convocatoria/38167.
On this page, the following links and resources can be found:
1 - Link to the application platform CONVOCA (requires prior registration)
2 - Applicant's guide (in English)
3 - FAQ (in English)
4 - Contact for questions and doubts: d...@csic.es<mailto:d...@csic.es> (please add PIs in CC)
STEP 1
Once the candidate has created a profile in the CONVOCA platform, they should upload the mandatory documents required by the call (e.g. curriculum vitae, academic transcript...), plus the following material specific for selecting the CECODISP candidate.
* A letter of motivation including a research project (the project should be about 1 page long).
* A writing sample of up to 7,000 words, written by the candidate.
* Optionally, one or more letters of reference addressing the applicant’s qualifications for doctoral research. These should be sent directly by the referees to the email addresses of the PIs (delia....@cchs.csic.es<mailto:delia....@cchs.csic.es>, cpi...@fsof.uned.es<mailto:cpi...@fsof.uned.es>).
Step 2
The candidate should select the position's listing in the CONVOCA platform, searching by title or by code. (Title: Conceptual Engineering and Communicative Disruptions: between Semantics and Pragmatics. Code: PID2024-157224NB-I00.) At this point, they can send the application. Note that only the final application, which includes the applicant's signature (either digital or manual), is the correct one.
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PROJECT'S CONTENTS AND OBJECTIVES
Title: Conceptual Engineering and Communicative Disruptions: between Semantics and Pragmatics (CECODISP)
Code: PID2024-157224NB-I00
PIs: Delia Belleri (CSIC), Claudia Picazo (UNED)
Conceptual engineering is a method of assessment and revision of conceptual representations, which is associated with intentionally pursued conceptual changes. One may say that many concepts in history underwent intentional changes at the collective level (no matter how slow and complex); for instance, the concept of health in the medical profession, the concepts of marriage and family in the law, as well as several scientific concepts (mass, gene) might be described as having been conceptually engineered. One philosophically interesting aspect of these cases is that intentionally implementing conceptual changes in a linguistic community may be associated with a number of so-called linguistic interventions. These are uses of language that are either implicitly or explicitly aimed at changing the use of certain expressions in a linguistic community. A significant problem for both conceptual engineering and linguistic interventions is that they can give rise to changes of subject and to communicative disruptions, thus compromising smooth sharing of information and practical coordination. CECODISP aims to study, understand, and evaluate the problems of subject-change and communicative disruptions in conceptual engineering and its implementation. This will imply examining these phenomena from two perspectives.
1) From a semantic/theoretical perspective, the focus will be on the phenomenon of changing the subject, with the aim of understanding its metaphysical and practical underpinnings, to prevent and address communicative disruptions. In a first phase of the project (WP1), the general idea of changing the subject, as well as that of communicative disruptions, will be assessed to determine the extent to which it poses a real challenge to conceptual engineering. The psycholinguistics notion of metalinguistic awareness will be proposed as a fruitful resource for providing an answer to these alleged problems. In a second phase of the project (WP2), the focus will be strictly on subject matter and on what it means to change the subject in a semantic and formal sense, once again trying to assess the prospects for an effective response to the change of subject problem.
2) From a pragmatic point of view, the project will investigate implementation strategies for conceptual engineers, like so-called linguistic interventions, which can cause communicative disruptions. In a third phase of the project (WP3), a variety of phenomena associated with linguistic interventions and communicative disruptions will be studied. First, the difference between collective and individual linguistic interventions will be scrutinized and systematized within a Gricean framework. Second, this Gricean framework will also permit studying power asymmetries, whereby communicative disruptions may be intentionally exploited, with better or worse intentions. In a fourth and last phase of the project (WP4), an optimistic case for communicative disruptions will be made, arguing that they pre-exist conceptual engineering, and most importantly that in some key cases, they can be morally justified and even beneficial.
Spanish National Research Council, Institute of Philosophy / UNED, METIS research group - Madrid
A four-year predoctoral fellowship (FPI) is offered in association with the research project “Conceptual Engineering and Communicative Disruptions: between Semantics and Pragmatics” (PID2024-157224NB-I00), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and FEDER, UE (PIs: Delia Belleri (CSIC) (delia....@cchs.csic.es<mailto:delia....@cchs.csic.es>), Claudia Picazo (UNED) (cpi...@fsof.uned.es<mailto:cpi...@fsof.uned.es>)).
The successful applicant is expected to develop a doctoral thesis on topics that align with the project's objectives (see below) under the supervision of one or both of the PIs, as well as to participate in the project's activities (reading groups, workshops). A requirement for candidates is a good command of English. For information on the project's contents and objectives, see below.
The predoctoral contract terms are those established in the PID2024 call for applications (see Article 21 of Law 14/2011, on Science, Technology and Innovation). (For illustrative purposes only, the most recent contracts of this type at the CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) paid EUR 19,574.52 in the first year and EUR 24,468.15 in the second and subsequent years.)
APPLICATION PERIOD
From 19/12/2025 to 08/01/2026.
TO APPLY:
The applicant should consult the call page: https://sede.csic.gob.es/tramites/convocatorias-de-personal/convocatoria/38167.
On this page, the following links and resources can be found:
1 - Link to the application platform CONVOCA (requires prior registration)
2 - Applicant's guide (in English)
3 - FAQ (in English)
4 - Contact for questions and doubts: d...@csic.es<mailto:d...@csic.es> (please add PIs in CC)
STEP 1
Once the candidate has created a profile in the CONVOCA platform, they should upload the mandatory documents required by the call (e.g. curriculum vitae, academic transcript...), plus the following material specific for selecting the CECODISP candidate.
* A letter of motivation including a research project (the project should be about 1 page long).
* A writing sample of up to 7,000 words, written by the candidate.
* Optionally, one or more letters of reference addressing the applicant’s qualifications for doctoral research. These should be sent directly by the referees to the email addresses of the PIs (delia....@cchs.csic.es<mailto:delia....@cchs.csic.es>, cpi...@fsof.uned.es<mailto:cpi...@fsof.uned.es>).
Step 2
The candidate should select the position's listing in the CONVOCA platform, searching by title or by code. (Title: Conceptual Engineering and Communicative Disruptions: between Semantics and Pragmatics. Code: PID2024-157224NB-I00.) At this point, they can send the application. Note that only the final application, which includes the applicant's signature (either digital or manual), is the correct one.
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PROJECT'S CONTENTS AND OBJECTIVES
Title: Conceptual Engineering and Communicative Disruptions: between Semantics and Pragmatics (CECODISP)
Code: PID2024-157224NB-I00
PIs: Delia Belleri (CSIC), Claudia Picazo (UNED)
Conceptual engineering is a method of assessment and revision of conceptual representations, which is associated with intentionally pursued conceptual changes. One may say that many concepts in history underwent intentional changes at the collective level (no matter how slow and complex); for instance, the concept of health in the medical profession, the concepts of marriage and family in the law, as well as several scientific concepts (mass, gene) might be described as having been conceptually engineered. One philosophically interesting aspect of these cases is that intentionally implementing conceptual changes in a linguistic community may be associated with a number of so-called linguistic interventions. These are uses of language that are either implicitly or explicitly aimed at changing the use of certain expressions in a linguistic community. A significant problem for both conceptual engineering and linguistic interventions is that they can give rise to changes of subject and to communicative disruptions, thus compromising smooth sharing of information and practical coordination. CECODISP aims to study, understand, and evaluate the problems of subject-change and communicative disruptions in conceptual engineering and its implementation. This will imply examining these phenomena from two perspectives.
1) From a semantic/theoretical perspective, the focus will be on the phenomenon of changing the subject, with the aim of understanding its metaphysical and practical underpinnings, to prevent and address communicative disruptions. In a first phase of the project (WP1), the general idea of changing the subject, as well as that of communicative disruptions, will be assessed to determine the extent to which it poses a real challenge to conceptual engineering. The psycholinguistics notion of metalinguistic awareness will be proposed as a fruitful resource for providing an answer to these alleged problems. In a second phase of the project (WP2), the focus will be strictly on subject matter and on what it means to change the subject in a semantic and formal sense, once again trying to assess the prospects for an effective response to the change of subject problem.
2) From a pragmatic point of view, the project will investigate implementation strategies for conceptual engineers, like so-called linguistic interventions, which can cause communicative disruptions. In a third phase of the project (WP3), a variety of phenomena associated with linguistic interventions and communicative disruptions will be studied. First, the difference between collective and individual linguistic interventions will be scrutinized and systematized within a Gricean framework. Second, this Gricean framework will also permit studying power asymmetries, whereby communicative disruptions may be intentionally exploited, with better or worse intentions. In a fourth and last phase of the project (WP4), an optimistic case for communicative disruptions will be made, arguing that they pre-exist conceptual engineering, and most importantly that in some key cases, they can be morally justified and even beneficial.
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Claudia Picazo
Profesora Permanente Laboral
Departamento de Lógica, Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia
UNED
Coordinadora del Máster en Filosofía Teórica y Práctica
Coordinadora del grupo de investigación METIS (con Paloma Atencia Linares)
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