(New) Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophical Logic (Provability)
Are you looking for a postdoc position at the intersection of logic, philosophy and mathematics? Would you like to be part of a research team developing new foundations for intensional notions such as property, content, proof, possibility and necessity? If so, come and join the GOOD INTENSIONS project!
Join us!
The New Foundations for Intensionality (GOOD INTENSIONS) project, based at the Department of Philosophy and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam, is looking to fill one four-year postdoc position on the philosophy, semantics and logic of provability talk.
GOOD INTENSIONS is a research project funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant and led by Dr. Luca Incurvati (Principal Investigator). Intensional notions such as those of property, content, proof, possibility and necessity are central to philosophy, logic, mathematics and linguistics. However, these notions are threatened by paradoxes reminiscent of those that plagued the foundations of mathematics at the beginning of the XX century. The GOOD INTENSIONS project aims to provide new philosophical, semantical and logical foundations for intensional notions, which will deliver a comprehensive and uniform solution to the intensional paradoxes. The project is highly interdisciplinary and brings together methods and techniques from philosophy, logic and linguistics.
You will be conducting research within the Provability work package. The overall goal of this work package is to provide a novel account of the function, meaning and logic of provability talk and to apply it to the question of mechanism in the philosophy of mind. You will work under the supervision of the PI, Luca Incurvati, and will collaborate with him and the other team members. In addition to the PI and yourself, the research team will include a postdoc working on propositions, a PhD student working on properties, and a PhD student working on modality. The team also includes a research assistant, providing organizational and administrative support.
Your application & contact
If you believe you are a good fit for the position and are interested in joining us, we look forward to receiving your application. Your application should consist of the following materials:
- a cover letter of maximum two A4 pages explaining your reasons for applying for the position and how you can contribute to the project in terms of both teamwork and expertise (with reference to your doctoral studies, publication record and writing sample);
- a CV, including: (a) details of studies and in particular a list of completed courses and corresponding grades; (b) a list of all relevant outputs (especially articles and talks); (c) the names of two referees;
- a writing sample of maximum 8,000 words. This can (but need not be) a chapter of your PhD thesis, in which case it is expected that the writing sample would still be sufficiently self-contained. The writing sample should be demonstrably relevant to the project’s themes and objectives.
You can apply online via the button. Please submit two pdf files: (I) your CV (named as applicant’s name-provabilitypostdoc-CV.pdf ); (II) a single file containing both the cover letter and the writing sample (named as applicant’s name-provabilitypostdoc-cover.pdf).
If you have any questions or require further information about the vacancy, please contact the chair of the selection committee and PI of the GOOD INTENSIONS project:
- Dr. Luca Incurvati: Associate Professor
- L.Incurvati at uva.nl
The vacancy closes on 27-04-2026. The first round of interviews will take place in May.
Application form: https://werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/postdoctoral-researcher-in-philosophical-logic-provability-netherlands-14938/apply