PhD scholarship in Metaphysics at the University of Sydney This scholarship is funded by an ARC discovery grant and will provide 3 years of funding for a PhD candidate in philosophy. Full-time applicants are sought who have a good honours degree or Masters in philosophy, in particular the applicant should have a good background in metaphysics. The project involves considering, for a range of first-order metaphysical claims in a wide range of areas, whether those claims are necessary and contingent, and eventually formulating an account of when we should expect metaphysical claims to be necessary and when contingent.
The applicant will be expected to become familiar with a wide range of issues in metaphysics, including in the philosophy of time, composition, persistence, and modality. The University of Sydney is an excellent place to undertake work in metaphysics, where a team of leading researchers are housed within the federation fellowship funded Centre for Time headed by Professor Huw Price, and the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science headed by Mark Colyvan. The scholarship is valued at $26140 per annum tax exempt and may be renewed for up to three years subject to satisfactory progress. Applicants must be Australian citizens, Australian permanent residents or New Zealand citizens. Further information can be obtained from Dr Kristie Miller, department of philosophy, University of Sydney by emailing: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applicants should send a complete CV, academic transcript and the names and contact details of at least two referees to Dr. Miller by email or to Dr. Miller, Department of Philosophy, The University of Sydney 2006 NSW by Dec 7. Dr. Kristie Miller Australian Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and The Centre for Time The University of Sydney Sydney, Australia Room 411, A18 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: (work) 02 9036 9663 Ph: (mobile) 0432 275 286 http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Home%20Page.html _______________________________________________ SydPhil mailing list [email protected] List Info: http://lists.arts.usyd.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil NEW LIST ARCHIVE: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
