call for one postdoctoral fellowship (1 year with the possibility of an
extension of one extra year) linked to the research ERC endeavor
EarlyModernCosmology – “Institutions and Metaphysics of Cosmology in
the Epistemic Networks of Seventeenth-Century Europe” (GA 725883) which
has received funding from the European Research Council - Horizon 2020 and
is based at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
(unive.it/earlymoderncosmology).

The research endeavor addresses the confessional, political and ideological
settings of early modern science, with a particular focus on cosmology. The
project has an overarching thematic, geographical, and geopolitical scope
and is reinforced by a methodological and philosophical reflection on
political epistemology informed by Gramscian views on society, culture, and
politics.

As Principal Investigator I am currently looking for

one post-doctoral fellow

with an outstanding project in one or more of the following research areas
relevant to the ERC endeavor:

1.             Early-modern cultural history of science: Cosmology and
related disciplines in their socio-political context;

2.            Early-modern institutional history: Early-modern
institutional history of ideas    and/or epistemic webs in their
socio-cultural and political entanglements;

3.      Political epistemology: Methodological problems of historical
epistemology for the investigation of science, religion and ideology.

 

Deadline: 31 January 2019 at 12:00 (Venice time)
 

For the details and the on-line submission, please follow the instructions
in the call on the university’s official website:

(English) https://static.unive.it/common2/file/download/assegni_ricerca/5bffbaf9a627a

(Italian) https://static.unive.it/common2/file/download/assegni_ricerca/5bffbaf9a2f2a

 

Contacts:

Research support office (Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage):
ricerca.fbc@unive.it

Project Manager EarlyModernCosmology: Silvia Bellacicco silvia.bellacicco@unive.it

Principal Investigator EarlyModernCosmology: Pietro Daniel Omodeo pietrodaniel.omodeo@unive.it