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Dear colleagues
I am hiring a full-time (100%) doctoral scholarship holder (PhD student) in the
field of philosophy of science to work on the following research project:
Evidence-based policy, fallibility and ignorance.
Starting date: 1 October 2022 (or as soon as possible after that date if
necessary).
Duration: 4 years (2+2).
To apply, see
here<https://www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vacatures/ap/?q=2325&descr=Doctoral-scholarship-holder-Philosophy-of-science>.
(See the 'Solliciteren'-button on that website. Only applications submitted
via that way will be eligible.)
Deadline for applications: 10 August 2022.
Summary of the research project:
Evidence-based policy (EBP) is based on the idea that policy makers should use
evidence as the basis for their policy decisions, in the hopes that the latter
will work. EBP is highly important in present-day societies, and has been
heavily discussed in the social sciences (i.a. public policy literature) and in
philosophy and philosophy of science. If we look at what has been done, we see
that many divergent definitions and characterizations of EBP have been
proposed. As of yet there is no agreed upon definition of EBP. Furthermore, EBP
faces many challenges in practice. For most of them it is not clear how they
should be addressed, in part due to the lack of consensus about what EBP is or
should be. This project wants to contribute to the solution to this problem by
clarifying existing meanings of 'EBP', by tackling two specific epistemological
problems relating to EBP and by striving towards a consensus definition.
For more information: see
here<https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/staff/bert-leuridan/project-ebp/>.
With kind regards
Bert Leuridan
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Prof. dr. Bert Leuridan
Department of Philosophy
University of Antwerp
Stadscampus, S.R.211
Rodestraat 14
B-2000 Antwerp (Belgium)
Bert.Leuridan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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