Repassando a pedidos da Sara Negri:

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the opening of a Post-Doc position for one year,
renewable for a second year, within the Academy of Finland project
"Modalities and conditionals: systematic and historical studies" directed
by Sara Negri at the Philosophy Unit of the University of Helsinki.

The main focus of the project is on philosophical logic. The ideal
candidate is expected to have a strong background in modal logic, epistemic
logic and proof theory, research experience with labelled deductive
systems, and a strong motivation for collaborative work with the PI on the
project's specific themes.

Qualification requirements:

Applications are invited by highly motivated and competent candidates with
a doctoral degree in philosophy, mathematics, or computer science with
focus on logic, with research experience and expertise relevant to the
project.

Applicants should be able to demonstrate their ability to produce
high-quality research, as evidenced by their doctoral thesis and
publications, conference presentations, and references. The position does
not require knowledge of Finland's national languages, as the research on
the project will be conducted and published in English.

Terms of employment:

The position involves full-time employment for one year, renewable for a
second year.  The start date is negotiable but should be not later than
September 1st, 2018.

The postdoctoral fellow will be expected to produce high-quality research
on the project, individually and in close collaboration with the principal
investigator. The fellow will be expected to publish the results of his/her
research in first-class international journals and conferences and to
disseminate them via international conferences, workshops, seminars and
other suitable events.  The fellow will also assist with some
administrative work related to the project, such as organising related
conferences, workshops, and seminars. A 5% teaching duty is involved in the
fellowship.


Salary will be based on the Finnish salary scale for Academic employment
and decided on the basis of the researcher's experience.


Application requirements: Candidates should send their cv, list of
publications, a copy of their doctoral dissertation, a cover letter with a
statement indicating their background, motivations, suitability for the
project as a single message

with attachments as pdf (however, large files such as the doctoral
dissertation and accessible through web repositories can be just linked)
and subject "Post-doc application"; a letter of recommendation by the PhD
thesis supervisor should be sent directly to Prof. Sara Negri.


Deadline for application: 15 January 2018.


Further information about the position can be obtained from Professor Sara
Negri (sara.ne...@helsinki.fi)




Brief project description: The proposed research belongs to philosophical
logic, a core area of theoretical philosophy. The main objectives of the
proposal are the application and further development of a novel logical
methodology for the study of the inferential aspect of modalities and
conditionals and the study of the sources of related modal concepts in
European philosophy.


Philosophical logic has been traditionally devoted to the study of
conceptual pairs such as necessity and possibility, and obligation and
permission. Its privileged approach has been, since the introduction of
possible worlds semantics, the semantical one, with analytic systems of
proof considered an impossibility even for basic modal logics. The role of
logic has been restricted to giving classes of axiomatizations for the
basic notions at hand. The axiomatic approach, however, fails to represent
inferential processes that require hypothetical reasoning.  Further, the
classical systems of logic are inadequate as representations of modalities
and conditionals that are outside the idealized realm of mathematical
entities. They escape the standard truth value semantics and even possible
worlds semantics fails in providing a sufficiently comprehensive setting.


The more general neighbourhood semantics will be used for a sharpening of
the methods at the formal core of the project, with a parallel development
of the normative, descriptive and deductive aspects of a logical system,
and the addition, through decision methods, of a predictive component.
Specific objectives include the proof-theoretical investigation of
non-normal quantified modal logics, of conditionals both in pure form and
in association with alethic, dynamic, and doxastic modalities.  The
inferential systems obtained are applied in research areas that belong to
pure and applied logic and formal epistemology.


Keywords: Philosophical logic, possible worlds semantics, neighbourhood
semantics, modalities, first-order modal logic, conditionals, dynamic
epistemic logic, sequent calculus, inferentialism, history of structural
proof theory, history of modern modal logic.



Professor Sara Negri


http://www.helsinki.fi/~negri/

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