Postdoctoral position in Formal Epistemology and/or Social Epistemology
Topic: “Epistemic deliberation and epistemic aggregation” ANR-DFG
Project “Collective Attitude Formation” (COLAFORM)

 

The French team of the ANR-DFG project “Collective Attitude Formation”
(ColAForm, ANR# ANR-16-FRAL-2010) invites applications for a 18 months
postdoctoral position in Formal Epistemology and/or Social Epistemology
starting October 1st 2017.

 

Topic: “Epistemic Deliberation and Epistemic Aggregation”

 

Location: Université Paris-Est Créteil, Créteil, France.

 

Project’s PI: Mikaël Cozic, Université Paris-Est Créteil & Institut
Universitaire de France

 

Duration: 18 months.

 

Starting date:  October 1st, 2017.

 

Requirements: PhD in Philosophy (formal epistemology, social epistemology).
Candidates with PhD degrees in disciplines which study the formation of
collective epistemic attitudes (esp., economics, psychology, statistics)
are also welcome is they can demonstrate their aptness for the project. All
candidates should have a strong background in formal models of epistemic
attitudes.

 

Application deadline: July 31, 2017.

 

Salary: depending on the previous experience of the candidate, the (gross)
monthly salary will be between 2000 and 2150 euros.

 

Contact: Mikael Cozic, mikael.cozic@u-pec.fr   

 

Description:

The overall goal of the ColAForm project is to compare the properties of
deliberation, aggregation and combinations of them as processes of
collective attitude formation. The successful candidate will focus on
epistemic attitudes (beliefs, judgments). He or she will collaborate with
members of the French team working in the domain: D. Bonnay (U.
Paris-Ouest), F. Dietrich (CNRS & PSE), I. Drouet (U. Paris-Sorbonne), P.
Egré (CNRS & ENS Paris), B. Hill (CNRS & HEC), Ph. Mongin (CNRS & HEC), C.
Paternotte (U. Paris-Sorbonne) and M. Pivato (U. Cergy-Pontoise). Specific
research topics include

 
·         the relationship between opinion pooling and models of belief
updating ·          the clustering of opinions ·         the aggregation
of judgments ·         the aggregation of imprecise probabilities (and,
more generally, of non-Bayesian beliefs) ·         Jury Theorems ·       
 the application of formal models of epistemic attitude formation to
real-world epistemic collective processes (e.g., IPPC).

 

For a more detailed description of the project and of these topics, see

http://mikael.cozic.free.fr/ANR-DFG-ColAForm.pdf

 

The successful candidate is expected to work on one (or several) of these
research topics. He or she will have opportunities to interact with members
of the German team (e.g., O. Roy (U. Bayreuth), A. Lyon (LMU), G. Wheeler
(LMU)) and with associate members to the project (e.g., R. Bradley (LSE),
C. List (LSE), V. Hendriks (U. Copenhagen), J-W. Romeijn (U. Groningen)).

 

The position does not come with teaching obligations. The candidate will
contribute to the organization of a monthly seminar and other scientific
events related to the ColAForm project.

 

Applications should include:
·         a CV ·         a writing sample ·         a description of
research activities planned during the postdoctoral position (max. 1500
words) ·         at most 2 letters of recommendation, directly sent from
referees to mikael.cozic@u-pec.fr

Applications should be sent by mail (only) to mikael.cozic@u-pec.fr before July
31, 2017.