The Faculty
of Philosophy at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University will host several visiting positions
for the semester March 2023-August 2023. Applications are
welcome from both senior and junior faculty (including those
holding non-tenured posts and post-docs) from foreign
institutions, but we will only be able to consider candidates
in possession of a Ph.D. by the time of the application.
The
Faculty offers two different types of positions, depending on
the stage of career of the applicant:
visiting professor and
visiting fellow, which can last between 1 and 6
months.
Deadline for
applications is October 1st, 2022. We expect to inform applicants
about the status of their applications by the beginning of
November. The expected start of the visiting period is March
1st, 2023.
These fellowships are not
salaried. For the a.y. 2022-23, research activities will take
place both in person and remotely. Up to two positions can be
reserved to in-person visiting scholars, whereas the other
positions will be reserved to online visiting scholars. The
Faculty will provide access to the seminars, lectures and
congresses of the Faculty for all visiting members.
All visiting scholars are
expected to undertake research collaborations with one or more
Faculty members. In addition, visiting professors are expected
to undertake a small amount of didactic activity, in the form
of guest lectures, seminar activities, or the like, upon
agreement with the host Faculty members.
Research at the Faculty of
Philosophy at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University revolves
around six areas, listed below. The candidate will be expected
to apply by mentioning one or more of those areas, how they
intend to collaborate in that area, whether they are applying
for a visiting professorship or a visiting fellowship, whether
they are applying for an online visit or an in-person visit,
and the duration of their visit.
Applications
should include:
• A short description (no
more than one page) of the research you intend to undertake
whilst at the Faculty of Philosophy, with specific mention of
connections to one or more of the areas of research at the
Faculty (see list below), which also specifies: the duration
of their visit, whether they are applying for an online or an
in-person visit, whether they are applying for a visiting
professorship or a visiting fellowship.
• A short CV (no more than
two pages).
Deadline: October 1st, 2022
Notification of
acceptance/rejection: November 1st, 2022
Start of the visiting period:
March 1st, 2022
Please
send the application material to the
Contact Person (list below) of the area you are
applying for.
Research
in Philosophy of
Science and Applied Epistemology: Carlo Martini (martin...@hsr.it)
Research
in History of
Philosophy and History of Ideas: Alfredo Gatto (gatto....@hsr.it)
AREAS
OF RESEARCH
Research
in Philosophy of
Science and Applied Epistemology focuses on experimental and applied
epistemology, philosophy of science, experimental economics,
and behavioral science and its applications, as well as the
study of language, memory and reasoning. Research center:
CRESA
Research Center for Applied and
Experimental Epistemology and Philosophy of Science. CRESA welcomes visitors interested
in the center’s current research topics: the epistemology of
trust, the science of disinformation, behavioral interventions
for public policy, and medical decision making. We welcome
researchers interested in both theoretical and applied
research. CRESA is currently hosting the H2020 project Policy, Expertise and Trust, and the PRIN project From Models to Decisions.
Research
in Logic and
Philosophy of Mathematics revolves around issues in the foundations of
mathematics, abstractionism and Frege’s philosophy of
mathematics, the application of non-classical logics to set
theoretic paradoxes, philosophical logic and philosophy of
logic, the semantics of arbitrary reference. Research center:
CRESA
Research Center for Applied and
Experimental Epistemology and Philosophy of Science.
Research
in Philosophy of
Mind involves, but
is not limited to, themes with a focus on cognitive
phenomenology, intentionality of perception and the perception
of evaluative and high-level properties. Research in
Philosophy of Language focuses on the social and applied
philosophy of language investigating expressive and evaluative
discourse, speech acts and discursive injustice, oppressive
speech, language and gender, experimental approaches to
evaluative, expressive and moral language. Research centers:
CRESA
Research Center for Applied and
Experimental Epistemology and Philosophy of Science;
GENDER
Interfaculty
Centre for Gender Studies. CRESA is currently hosting the PRIN
project The
Mark of the Mental.
Research
in Ethics and Politics revolves around both theoretical and
applied issues in particular concerning critical theory,
ethical theory, metaethics, neuroethics, bioethics,
environmental and media ethics, social and political
philosophy and public ethics. Research centers:
CeSEP
Centre
for Studies in Ethics and Politics;
IRCECP
International
Research Center for European Culture and Politics. CeSEP is currently hosting the PRIN
project New
challenges for applied ethics. The moral impact of
scientific and technological advances.
Research
in Phenomenology and Theoretical Philosophy focuses on
phenomenology, social ontology, philosophy of personhood,
philosophy of mind, eidetics, hermeneutics, metaphysics,
aesthetics, philosophy of arts, political theology and
philosophy of history. Areas of expertise include
phenomenology of experience, existential phenomenology,
phenomenology of medicine, phenomenology of value-qualities,
value-perception and expressiveness, qualitative social
ontology, empathy and phenomenology of intersubjectivity,
personal identity and gender, neuro-phenomenology, genealogy
and archeology of knowledge, theory of visual arts,
hermeneutics of concepts, philosophy of literature, Italian
thought, Jewish thought. Research centers:
PERSONA
Centre
for Research in Phenomenology and Sciences of the Person;
DIAPOREIN
Centre
of Research in Metaphysics and Philosophy of Arts.
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