ERC Endeavor “EarlyModernCosmology”. Three pre-doctoral fellowships
The Ca’
Foscari University of Venice
Department
of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage
ERC
Endeavor “EarlyModernCosmology”
The ERC research
endeavor,
“Institutions and Metaphysics of Cosmology in the Epistemic
Networks of
Seventeenth-Century Europe” (proposal number 725883), was
established at the
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice beginning in November 2017. It
will benefit
from the financial support of the European Research Council for
five years.
Historian and
philosopher of
science, Pietro Daniel Omodeo, will lead an international
research group
investigating early-modern Protestant and Catholic cosmologies
in their
institutional, political, and ideological settings. The project
has a
wide-ranging thematic, geographical, and geopolitical scope. It
will be
reinforced by a methodological and philosophical reflection on
political
epistemology informed by Gramscian views on society, culture,
and politics.
We are currently
looking for
three
pre-doctoral fellows
with outstanding
projects in
one of the following research areas relevant to the ERC
endeavor:
- History of scientific and philosophical thought in the political-confessional contexts of the early modern period;
- History of astronomy in the early modern period, its historical roots and scientific contexts (incl. technical, visual, and conceptual aspects in general);
- Problems of historical epistemology, in particular a meta-reflection on science informed by historical-political and historical-cultural categories.
The successful
candidates will
enroll in a PhD program at the Department of Philosophy and
Cultural Heritage, Philosophy Curriculum.
A research proposal (of maximum 15,000
characters,
including spaces, 1,5 spaced, in English) should be submitted,
including a
survey of the state of the art and a final bibliography (which
is excluded from
the 15,000 characters).
Deadline: April 26, 2018,
at 13:00 (Italian time)
Link:
For the details and
the
submission, please follow the instructions in the call on the
University
official website:
(English) http://www.unive.it/
(Italian) http://www.unive.it/dottorati
The submission
should be sent following
the procedure as indicated on the University website.