At least two years funding are available for either an MA or a PhD candidate in association with the ARC Discovery project 'Analytic and Continental: Arguments on the Methods and Value of Philosophy'.

Candidates should apply through central scholarships at either La Trobe University or the University of Tasmania. Please notify either Dr Jack Reynolds or Dr James Chase of your intention to be considered for this project.

Further enquiries: Jack Reynolds, jack.reynolds at latrobe.edu.au or James Chase, jkchase at utas.edu.au

Candidates should apply through central scholarships and indicate in their application if they wish to be considered for this project. Please notify Dr Hohwy of your intention to be considered for this project. Candidates that do not receive an APA, Monash, or international scholarship may be considered for specific scholarship funding from Neuroscience and Philosophy.

Further enquiries: Jakob Hohwy, Philosophy, Monash; Jakob.Hohwy at arts.monash.edu.au

Charles Sturt University announces two dedicated postgraduate research scholarships available to Australian residents for study at the Canberra division of the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), an Australian Research Council funded Special Research Centre.

Research may be undertaken in any of the Centre’s core program areas of ethics in relation to political violence and state sovereignty, biotechnology, information technology and nanotechnology, criminal justice, business and professions, welfare and international justice, or topics in social, political and legal philosophy.

Applicants must contact CAPPE in advance of submitting a formal application to Charles Sturt University.

Further enquiries: Tom Campbell, tom.campbell at anu.edu.au

Supplementary scholarship to be held in conjunction with an Australian Postgraduate Award, a University Postgraduate Award or equivalent postgraduate research award or another full scholarship approved by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. All students applying for postgraduate places at UWA under the supervision of members of the Discipline Group of Philosophy are eligible to apply.

Three Theresa Symons Postgraduate Scholarships are expected to be available in any one year from 2008, each supplying around $7000 per annum in addition to the amount provided by an APA, UPA or other award. full details

Supplementary scholarship to be held in conjunction with an Australian Postgraduate Award, a University Postgraduate Award or equivalent postgraduate research award or another full scholarship approved by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. All students applying for postgraduate places at UWA under the supervision of members of the Discipline Group of Philosophy are eligible to apply.

This scholarship is for postgraduate students intending to pursue research into the consequences of Hard Determinism in the discipline of Philosophy at the University of Western Australia.

The annual value of the scholarship is equivalent to half the stipend of the APA or UPA for each year of study for which the scholarship is awarded. The scholarship can be held in conjunction with any other scholarship, provided the conditions of the other scholarship so permit. full details

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Otago is seeking a PhD candidate to work with Professor Peter Anstey on the topic ‘Francis Bacon and the Experimental Philosophy’ or a related topic.

The successful applicant will join a research team working on a three-year Marsden funded project entitled ‘Experimental Philosophy and the origins of Empiricism’.

Scholarship funding is available. International PhD scholarships provide an emolument of NZ$20,000 per year, the payment of fees at domestic level for up to 3 years, and various ancillary expenses.

For more information contact Prof Peter Anstey
For scholarship information

The University of Auckland Philosophy Department is offering up to two ($25,000 3-year) PhD and four ($5,000 one-year) MA scholarships commencing in 2009.

Teaching assistantships may also be available, subject to scholarship and immigration restrictions.

Deadlines for applications are December 1st for PhD scholarships and December 1st and May 30th for MA scholarships.

For further information, contact: Dr Tim Dare.

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: kristie_miller@yahoo.com. 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.

Applications are invited for a PhD scholarship to be funded as part of the ARC Discovery project DP1095109 Embodied Virtues and Expertise, to begin in early 2010. The scholarship is valued at $21,000 per annum (tax free and indexed annually) and may be renewed. The successful candidate will be based at the University of Wollongong in the School of English Literature and Philosophy.

The Project brings together for the first time two major areas of contemporary research: embodied cognition and virtue epistemology. Providing a theoretical framework that successfully explains expert performance. The Project will also account for the virtues of expert performers in different fields. An important outcome of the project is to develop an understanding of the relationship between embodied knowledge, reliable cognitive traits, and the ability to reflect upon performance and cognitive character.
The project aims to: investigate a number of fundamental questions concerning the abilities of experts to conduct fluid and flexible skilled activity in real time. To achieve this we will focus on developing an account of expertise by:
A. Giving an embodied account of cognitive skills and abilities that draws on recent work in cognitive science and the philosophy of cognitive science;
B. Synthesizing the embodied account of expertise with recent work on the cognitive virtues that sees reliable cognitive traits as constituting the ability to conduct some activity well. The synthesized position is dubbed ‘the embodied virtues’.
C. Applying this notion of embodied virtue to recent work in the philosophy of education that yields an account of developing and evaluating expertise not just by training, but also by developing the discursive and narrative abilities of students to evaluate and analyse their skills and explain how they would apply them in a range of different situations.
The project will be led by the philosophers Richard Menary, David Simpson, Shaun Gallagher, Dan Hutto and Christopher Winch.

Applicants should have an appropriate Honours 1 or 2A (or equivalent) undergraduate degree or an MA in philosophy and should have research interests central to the project.

Please contact Dr. Richard Menary for further details rmenary AT uow.edu.au