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UPDATE: Deadline extended to September 7, 2018 [POLSKOJĘZYCZNA WERSJA PONIŻEJ] PHD POSITION IN FORMAL PHILOSOPHY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GDAŃSK The Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Journalism at the University of Gdańsk invites applications for one doctoral position. First 12 months of funding start with October 2018, with the possibility of subsequent year-long extensions (conditional upon satisfactory progress) up to 36 months total. The candidate will be required to pursue their research and their PhD program at the University of Gdańsk (Poland) under the supervision of prof. Rafal Urbaniak within the research project titled Conceptual, formal and practical aspects of forensic and judicial applications of probabilistic tools funded by the Polish National Science Centre. No knowledge of Polish is required to complete the PhD. Applicants should hold an MA in philosophy or in another relevant discipline (law, AI, statistics, cognitive science, criminology, etc....

EDIT: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 8, 2017. [ POLSKOJĘZYCZNA WERSJA PONIŻEJ/ POLISH VERSION BELOW] TWO PHD POSITIONS IN FORMAL PHILOSOPHY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GDAŃSK The Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Journalism at the University of Gdańsk invites applications for two doctoral positions, both starting with the beginning of October 2017: One position whose funding starts in October 2017. The funding will be granted for 12 months, with the possibility of subsequent year-long extensions (conditional upon satisfactory progress) up to 48 months total.   One position which starts in October 2017, but it is  not funded during the first year . The funding starts with October 2018, with the possibility of subsequent year-long extensions (conditional upon satisfactory progress) up to 36 months total. (The candidate, however, is free to apply for the Faculty doctoral scholarship for the first year.) Candidates will be required to pursue their research under t...

Cezary Cieslinski, with his awesome team, is organizing a workshop on formal theories of truth in Warsaw, to take place 28-30 September 2017. The invites include Dora Achourioti, Ali Enayat, Kentaro Fujimoto, Volker Halbach, Graham Leigh, and Albert Visser. Submission deadline for CFP is May 15. More details here .

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (Official university document is available at http://wns.ug.edu.pl/sites/default/files/_nodes/komunikat/61840/files/note.pdf ) Assistant Professorship (“adiunkt” in Polish terminology) in the Chair of Logic, Philosophy of Science and Epistemology is available at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology and Journalism, University of Gdansk, Poland. The position is to start some time between  July 1 and September 1, 2017, for a fixed period of time with the possibility of extension. Decisions about the exact beginning date of the contract and the number of years will be made during the hiring process. The successful candidate will be expected to do research in mathematical philosophy, teach about 230 hrs per academic year, apply for external research funding, participate in the research activities of the Chair, in the life of the department, and in the administrative work as necessary. Candidates for Assistant Professorship are required to: h...

PhDs in Logic is an annual graduate conference organised by local graduate students. This interdisciplinary conference welcomes contributions to various topics in mathematical logic, philosophical logic, and logic in computer science. It involves tutorials by established researchers as well as short (20 minutes) presentations by PhD students, master students and first-year postdocs on their research. We are happy to announce that the ninth edition of PhDs in Logic will take place at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, during 2nd - 4th May 2017. Confirmed tutorial speakers are : Petr Cintula (Czech Academy of Sciences) María Manzano (University of Salamanca) João Marcos (University of Natal) Gabriella Pigozzi (Paris Dauphine University) Christian Straßer (Ruhr-University Bochum) Heinrich Wansing (Ruhr-University Bochum) Abstract submission: PhD students, master students and first-year postdocs in logic from disciplines, that include but are not limited to philosophy, mathe...