[applied-ethics] Fwd: Durham University - Two PhD studentships in Science and Policy: Further details

  • From: "Verweij, M.F." <M.F.Verweij@xxxxx>
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Marcel Verweij

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Durham University - Two PhD studentships in Science and Policy: Further details

The Department of Philosophy at Durham University and Centre for Humanities 
Engaging Science and Society (CHESS) are inviting applications for two 
full-time, three-year PhD positions in philosophy of the natural, social and 
policy sciences, starting in October, 2013. Suitable candidates should have a 
Masters degree (with merit or distinction) or equivalent, an interest in 
ʻscience and policyʼ and are expected to work in one of the six areas below. We 
are especially interested in work on these topics that interfaces with climate 
science, medicine, economics and other social sciences, and social policy.

1.      Evidence, conviction, endeavour
The nature of scientific evidence; evidence-based medicine; evidence-based 
social policy; hierarchies of evidence; non-randomised and randomised 
experiments; theory and practice of measurement.

2.      Expertise
The nature of scientific expertise; problems of legitimacy and extension; 
experts in democracy; experts versus mechanical objectivity; the nature of 
tacit knowledge.

3.      Moral and social order
Visions of well-ordered and disordered, decent and indecent societies; 
strategies of creating and maintaining order in society; the nature and role of 
institutions; justifying economic systems; studies of specific cases

4.      Narratives, modelling and representation
Models and representation in science; representation in art versus 
representation in the sciences; literary methods and thought experiments in the 
sciences and humanities; narratives as evidence; understanding and narratives.

5.      Modality and power
Causality and causal powers; theories of causation; causal inference; 
counterfactuals.

6.      Values in science and policy
What role values play and why; whose values and who decides; well-ordered 
science; areas of special concern, e.g. genetic engineering, human subject 
research, politically sensitive issues where scientific results matter.

Primary supervisors of PhD dissertations will be CHESS directors Professors 
Nancy Cartwright, Julian Reiss or associate director Dr Wendy Parker. 
Successful candidates are expected to contribute to the research environment at 
the Centre. There is no formal closing date for these posts, but we will review 
applications as they come in and applications coming in after 11 March cannot 
be guaranteed full consideration.

Ahead of applying for a post through the university online system (available 
at:http://www.dur.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply/ ) candidates should discuss their 
research proposal with a member of CHESS. Please send a CV, grade average and 
two-page research proposal to Nicola Craigs 
atn.j.craigs@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:n.j.craigs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> .

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