Researcher; CSIII

Organisation/Company Universitatea din Bucuresti Department ICUB Research Field Philosophy » Ethics Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2) Positions Postdoc Positions Final date to receive applications 18 Mar 2026 - 11:30 (Europe/Bucharest) Country Romania Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Part-time Hours Per Week 20 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

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The University of Bucharest is launching a competition to fill a position of Scientific Researcher, grade III, COR code 263305, within the project "An approach to modal epistemology from the perspective of virtue epistemology and its applications," at the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest.

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Research Field Philosophy » Ethics Education Level PhD or equivalent

Skills/Qualifications

• PhD in Philosophy.
• At least three articles published in WOS-indexed journals as sole or main author, on topics related to applied ethics or the application of conceptual tools of theoretical philosophy in the fields of ethics or political philosophy.

Specific Requirements

• Submission for publication in WOS/SCOPUS journals, as lead author, of at least two articles.
• Participation in the editing of articles coordinated by team colleagues.
• Participation in at least two international conferences.
• Participation in the organization of three local workshops/conferences ) and one international conference (2027).
• Participation in weekly work meetings.
• Participation in the work of (a) corroborating the results of the philosophical analysis of epistemic modalities and virtues with the results obtained in the field of modal psychology, (b) developing the concept of modal expertise, based on the results already obtained regarding the notion of moral expertise, (c) investigating the epistemology of mental experiments useful in the fields of normative and applied ethics

Languages ENGLISH Level Excellent

Languages ROMANIAN Level Excellent

Research Field Philosophy » Ethics Years of Research Experience 4 - 10

Selection process

Review of application file and interview

Location for the interview:
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest.

Additional comments

• Modal epistemology
• Virtue epistemology
• Thought experiments: applications in ethics and political philosophy

Bibliography:

• Badura,
  
  C., & Kind,
  
  A. (Eds). (2021). Epistemic Uses of Imagination. Routledge.
• Battaly, H. (Ed.). (2019). The Routledge Handbook of Virtue Epistemology. Routledge.
• Carlin Watson, J., & Guidry-Grimes, L. K. (Eds). (2018). Moral Expertise. Springer.
• Gendler, T. S., & Hawthorne, J. (Eds). (2002). Conceivability and Possibility. Clarendon Press.
• Kind,
  
  A. (2016). The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination. Routledge.
• Nichols, S. (Ed.). (2006). The Architecture of the Imagination:
  New Essays on Pretence, Possibility, and Fiction. Oxford University Press.
• Pölzler, T., & Paulo, N. (2021). Thought experiments and experimental ethics. Inquiry, 67(1), 355–383. (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..
• Stuart, M. T., Fehige, Y., & Brown, J. R. (Eds). (2018). The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments. Routledge.
• Vaidya,
  
  A., & Prelević,
  
  D. (Eds). (2023). Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Methodology. Routledge.