Role

We are advertising for two postdoctoral researcher associates. The positions are fixed for three years, and are offered as part of the ERC project “Scientific Progress and Artificial Intelligence: A Capabilities-Based Ethnographic Epistemology” (PACE), run by Mike Stuart out of the Philosophy Department.

Start date: September 1, 2026 (negotiable)

Philosophers of science have tended to focus more on theories and models than (cap)abilities. But scientific abilities raise a host of interesting and pressing issues: what are scientific abilities, how are they trained, how do tools focus and extend them, which abilities are relevant and how does this change over time/context? The goal of this ERC-funded project is to produce and analyze new data on scientific ability by looking at the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on science.

The project is motivated by three hypotheses:

a) Scientists care ...