Postdoc in QM foundations, phenomenology and/or pragmatism, based at Royal Holloway, London

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From: Huw Price <hp...@cam.ac.uk>

Please see details below of a postdoc on a new JTF grant, based at
Royal Holloway – please share with anyone you know who might be
interested. Enquires to Chris Fuchs at the address below.

Postdoctoral Position Available

Christopher Fuchs, Jacques Pienaar, and Ruediger Schack are seeking a
postdoctoral researcher for a recently awarded John Templeton
Foundation grant to set up a three-year international consortium to
explore, “What is Metrology if Quantum Measurements Participate in
Making Reality?” QBism is part of the subject of research, but not
exclusively so, as the grant is based upon a healthy debate between a
number of parties.

The position (1 year, renewable up to 3) would be based at Royal
Holloway University of London working predominantly with Ruediger
Schack. However, it would also require a significant amount of travel
each year to build synergy between the consortium nodes — Fuchs and
Pienaar in Boston, Michel Bitbol at CNRS in Paris, the UFRJ
experimental group in Rio de Janeiro, Adam Frank at the University of
Rochester, Marcelo Gleiser at Dartmouth College, Richard Healey on the
southern coast of Spain, Klaus Moelmer at the Niels Bohr Institute in
Copenhagen, Eran Tal at McGill University in Montreal, Christopher
Timpson at the University of Oxford, Harald Wiltsche at Linkoping
University in Sweden, and Jun Ye at JILA in Boulder, Colorado. As
might be expected, the position will come with a fairly large travel
budget.

The position can start any time after 1 September 2022, but we are
targeting that it will be filled no later than January 2023. We are
looking for either a physicsy-inclined philosopher or a
philosophically-inclined physicist. Either way, a researcher
preferably sympathetic to developing connections between quantum
interpretation and phenomenology (Husserl, Merleau-Ponty) and/or
pragmatism (James, Dewey, Price, Brandom) and/or a Bayesian who can
prove new quantum de Finetti theorems. (These preferences, however,
are not an absolute requirement.)

Please direct all enquiries to Christopher Fuchs at QBism...@gmail.com.