Two PhD scholarships in Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, Wollongong (Australia)

The University of Wollongong's Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts is offering two PhD scholarships to further enhance our growing strength in the Philosophy of Mind and Cognition. Scholarship are offered in conjunction with new appointments of Hutto as Professor of Philosophical Psychology and Gallagher as Professorial Fellow in Philosophy. Scholarships are available for commencement in either early or mid 2015.

Successful candidates will be supervised by Professor Hutto, Professor Gallagher and other members of the philosophy department. They will be expected to work on research topics connected with Enactive, Embodied, Extended and Scaffolded approaches to the Philosophy of Mind and Cognition. Possible topic areas include: emotions; emergence; group minds/group cognition; imagination; narrative and theory of mind; narrative explanation; narrative and selfhood; origins of content; scaffolded minds. Projects that have the potential to connect with issues in Ethics, Political Philosophy, or Philosophy of Law are welcome, as these are also prominent areas of research at Wollongong.

Deadline for applications: Friday 31 October 2014. For more information, see http://www.uow.edu.au/content/groups/public/@web/@raid/documents/doc/.