Visiting Fellowships: The Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science

Summary: We are currently inviting applications for one-semester visiting fellowships at The University of Sydney, for either second semester 2009 or first semester 2010. This program is associated with The Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science (SCFS), a new centre sponsoring research into the logical, philosophical and historical foundations of science and medicine (further details below).

Timeline: The deadline for application is December 8th, 2008.

Eligibility: We are hoping to receive applications from leading historians and philosophers of science (including the special sciences and medicine) at any career stage. This is the third round of such fellowships and we anticipate being able to offer such fellowships each year.

It is expected that there will be up to four fellowships per year, and each fellowship will come with a stipend of up to AUD 6,000. These fellowships will provide opportunities for academics on sabbatical from their home institution to spend a semester in an productive and collegial research environment (in a beautiful city), to work with members of the SCFS and with other visiting fellows. The stipend is to help offset some of the travelling and living-away-from-home expenses. The successful applicants will be expected to work on a specific research project that is of interest to members of the SCFS. One of the aims of the SCFS is to strengthen international links in history and philosophy of science, so expressions of interest from researchers outside Australia are particularly encouraged.

Applications should including a cover letter, a CV, and a brief outline of the proposed research project (including why you wish to pursue the research at the University of Sydney and which members of the SCFS team you anticipate collaborating with). Applications should be sent to:

Dr. Caroline Hamilton
Administrative Officer
Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry
A14, Main Quadrangle
University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW, 2006
Australia
Email: caroline.hamilton@usyd.edu.au

by 8th December 2008.

ABOUT THE SYDNEY CENTRE FOR THE FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE

The SCFS is a new interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Sydney. We draw together researchers from philosophy, history, history and philosophy of science, science and medicine, with research concentrations in and around foundations of physics, history and philosophy of biology, history of early modern science, history of medicine, and decision theory. Senior members of the SCFS include, Warwick Anderson, Stephen Bartlett, Alison Bashford, David Braddon-Mitchell, Mark Colyvan, Ofer Gal, Stephen Garton, Stephen Gaukroger, Paul Griffiths, Jenann Ismael, Ian Kerridge, Dominic Murphy, Hans Pols, Huw Price, and Nick Smith. We also have a number of mid career and junior faculty, as well as several postdoctoral fellows and graduate students associated with the SCFS. Further details can be found on our website: http://www.usyd.edu.au/foundations_of_science/

Please feel free to pass o this announcement to anyone who might be interested. Thanks.

Mark Colyvan
Professorial Research Fellow in Philosophy
Director of the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science
University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW, 2006
Australia
Email: mcolyvan[at]usyd[dot]edu[dot]au
Phone: +61 2 9036 6175
Fax: +61 2 9351 3918
Homepage: http://homepage.mac.com/mcolyvan