Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Full-time: 35 hours per week

Fixed-term: until 30/06/2025 with possibility of 6-month extension

The Edinburgh School of Law, in association with the School of Philosophy and the Centre for Technomoral Futures in the Edinburgh Futures Institute, is looking for a postdoctoral scholar working in political, moral, and/or legal philosophy who is interested in artificial intelligence.

The Opportunity:

The position is fixed-term until 30^th June 2025 with the possibility of extension depending on successful bids to external funding bodies. Funding for this position has been made possible through the generous support of Schmidt Futures.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• You have specialisation or demonstrable competence in political, moral, and/or legal philosophy.
• You have an emerging profile in the ethics and politics of artificial intelligence and machine learning, or can demonstrate a willingness and ability to contribute to this growing field.
• You are willing to engage in philosophical scholarship of the highest quality, consistent with ambitions to publish in top-ranking generalist and other top-ranking philosophy journals.
• You are comfortable working on projects both individually and collaboratively.
• You are willing to take the lead in organising a workshop to be hosted in Oxford or Edinburgh at some point in 2024.

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