Postdoc in Social and agentic dependence

🚀 I'm building a research team! Five full-time PhD and postdoctoral positions in Practical Philosophy at the University of Technology Nuremberg.

I'm recruiting up to five full-time doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to join my new Professorship of Practical Philosophy (Ethics) at UTN, starting in early 2027.

The ambition is to build an intellectually ambitious, collaborative research group investigating fundamental questions about ethics, human agency, social influence, and emerging technologies. There are two kinds of opportunities:

🔹 ERC Starting Grant Careful Now! — 3 full-time positions
Postdoc, 3 years: Social and agentic dependence (social epistemology, feminist epistemology, disability studies, 4E cognition, or related fields)
Postdoc, 3 years: Experimental philosophy of manipulation
PhD, 4 years, full time: Ethics and politics of manipulation

🔹 Open positions in Practical Philosophy — up to 2 positions
PhD or postdoctoral researchers with considerable freedom to develop their own projects in areas that complement my expertise, such as action theory, philosophy of mind, formal approaches to epistemology, etc. Full-time, up to four years.

All positions are from a stable funding source follow the applicable standards for academic researchers at UTN and in Bavaria (German public-sector collective agreement, TV-L, typically E13 or E14, depending on the position and qualifications, approximately €4,500–€7,200 gross per month, depending on experience).

Curious, ambitious, and collaborative researchers who enjoy developing their own ideas, engaging with others, and want to help shape a new intellectual community that strives to combine philosophical excellence with interdisciplinary collaborations.