Amsterdam PhD Positions

The Faculty of Philosophy at VU University Amsterdam (the Netherlands) is advertising four fully funded four year Ph.D. positions in epistemology / philosophy of science.

The positions are embedded in a research project entitled 'Science Beyond Scientism', which aims to clarify the relations between scientific knowledge and other sources of knowledge, esp. in relation to knowledge of free will, morality, rationality, and religion.

More details the positions and information about how to apply can be found here. More background on the project is available here. For further inquiries, please contact the project's principal investigator, René van Woudenberg (+31 20 59 86678). The deadline for applications is January 2nd, 2013.

The project has been made possible by a generous grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation.