UiT The Arctic University of Norway has established «The Arctic MSCA-PF program» (uit.no/project/arcticmsca) to recruit excellent young researchers planning to apply for a Marie Skƚodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF) to pursue a career in research. We invite applications from promising young researchers within the field of Philosophy, Ethics, Moral philosophy, Legal philosophy. The selected candidate will write a proposal for a 24-month MSCA-PF at UiT together with Prof. Attila Tanyi. This is an opportunity to accelerate your research career while living in the urban research city of Tromsø, uniquely located at the top of the world surrounded by some of Europe’s last pristine wild nature.

This call is one of 33 from pre-selected supervisors at UiT The Arctic University of Norway through the “Arctic MSCA-PF program” (uit.no/project/arcticmsca/list-of-participants). Successful postdoc candidates will be invited for a three-day MSCA-PF symposium June 6-8, 2023 (hybrid physical/digital event, see details at uit.no/project/arcticmsca/program-structure). At this event, the candidates will present their past research achievements, discuss future plans with their potential supervisor and learn how to write a successful MSCA-PF application. The selected candidates will, jointly with the supervisor, write the MSCA-PF application by the deadline of September 13, 2023.

In this call we search for talented, young researchers within the field of Philosophy as presented by Prof. Attila Tanyi:

I work in philosophy with specific attention to topics in ethics, moral, political and legal philosophy. I work on all levels: applied, normative, and meta. In applied fields, I am particularly interested in priority setting decisions in health care (that is, in the question of how to distribute scarce resources and generally the form health policy should take) as well as in the role of intuitions in business decision-making. Regarding more theoretical questions, I work on various aspects of the ethical doctrine of consequentialism (roughly: the right act is the one that produces the best consequences). I am also doing research on the legal and policing notion of entrapment (roughly: when someone is entrapped to commit a crime with the aim of subsequent prosecution) querying as well its ethical, moral and political status. Another strand of my research focuses on the notion and moral relevance of self-respect and the status of basic rights and liberties. Lastly, I spend significant research time on even more abstract metaethical and meta-normative questions. Historically, my focus has been on reasons and rationality but presently I am connecting my research to the conflict of prudence and morality in, among others, a social choice-based theoretical framework. I am accustomed to working with researchers from different disciplines (psychology, economics, management, medicine). I have experience working in various European countries where I have received funding on several occasions. 

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Please send your CV (max 3 pages) and describe a research project that will strengthen and complement the presented research (max 2 pages) to attila.g.tanyi@uit.no by Feb 17th 2023. Mark your application "Arctic MSCA". Successful candidates will be contacted in late March 2023.

https://uit.no/project/arcticmsca