Applications are invited for the Bertrand Russell Professorship of Philosophy. Deadline Friday 18th October 2019
Applications are invited for the Bertrand Russell Professorship of Philosophy
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The deadline for applications is Friday 18th October 2019 (midnight UK time).
(Published 11th July 2019.)
Call for Expressions of Interest for British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship applications: Faculty deadline Thursday 29th August 2019
Call for Expressions of Interest for British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship applications: Faculty deadline Thursday 29th August 2019
Cambridge operates an internal ranking of applications for this fellowship, and only a limited number will be submitted to the British Academy.
If you are interested in applying through the Faculty of Philosophy, please check that you meet the British Academy eligibility conditions and then send the following documents to philref@hermes.cam.ac.uk by Thursday 29th August 2019:
1) The completed Faculty expression of interest form, including the name of your proposed mentor(s), and confirmation that the mentor is willing to support your application
2) Your CV (2 pages) and list of publications
The details of the call can be found on the Academy's website: http://www.britac.ac.uk/british-academy-postdoctoral-fellowships.
Awards are typically for three years and cover the salary of the Postdoctoral Fellow to work full-time on the Fellowship, small-scale research expenses, costs towards the time of a mentor and the host institution's estates and indirect costs.
Karina Vold has been announced as one of five winners of the American Philosophical Association's 2019 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest, for her article "Are 'you' just inside your skin or is your smartphone part of you?"
Karina Vold has been announced as one of five winners of the American Philosophical Association's 2019 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest, for her article "Are 'you' just inside your skin or is your smartphone part of you?", published in Aeon Magazine.
Dr Clare Chambers writes on marriage in the New Statesman
What’s in a name? As it turns out, rather a lot. Clare Chambers explores the significance of the name “marriage” and the difference between a marriage license and a marriage certificate in an article published in Agora, the New Statesman’s philosophy column, on 2 August 2019. You can read the article here: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2019/08/marriage-unequal-institution-belongs-past
What makes a good excuse? A Cambridge philosopher may have the answer
Dr Paulina Sliwa argues that intentions are the key to making sense of our everyday morality
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