Postdoctoral position on "bridging causal and explanatory reasoning", Tilburg (The Netherlands)

The Tilburg Center for Logic, General Ethics, and Philosophy of Science at the University of Tilburg, the Netherlands invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship. Candidates must hold a Ph.D by the time of appointment and demonstrate excellence in research in one or more of the following areas of specialization: philosophy of science, philosophy of cognitive science, epistemology, experimental philosophy, or cognitive psychology.

The postdoc will be part of Matteo Colombo & Jan Sprenger's research project titled "Bridging Causal and Explanatory Reasoning. Normative and Empirical Considerations" funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation, as part of the Priority Program 1516 New Frameworks of Rationality. The project aims to bridge psychological and philosophical approaches to explanatory reasoning, with a focus on the following questions: (a) Is explanatory value exclusively tied to causality? (b) How could measures of explanatory power be fruitfully related to measures of causal strength? (c) In what ways can explanatory, causal, and probabilistic reasoning be fruitfully unified? While these questions are a central focus of the project, there will also be substantial opportunity for the postdoctoral fellow to influence the direction of research.

Deadline: December, 20, 2014. Details about the vacancy, along with a link to submit an application can be found through the webpage: http://erec.uvt.nl/vacancy?inc=UVT-EXT-2014-0313. Inquiries should be directed to dr. Matteo Colombo, e-mail m.colombo at uvt.nl