Postdoctoral Researcher (ESPhil)

ESPhil seeks to appoint a postdoctoral researcher

Introduction

Erasmus School of Philosophy (ESPhil) seeks to appoint a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in the area of philosophy of technology and/or anthropology, and with a research interest in artificial intelligence. The researcher will carry out research in the context of the sub-project “Epistemological Diplomacy” of the NWO funded project “Epistemologies and Political Economy of Automation” led by Prof. Dr. Yuk Hui. The sub-project is dedicated to the study of the relation between technodiversity, locality and political economy, orienting around the following questions: 1) How do non-European epistemologies relate to contemporary digital technologies? 2) How could alternative epistemic traditions inform the development, use, and imagination of technologies such as AI? 

Job description

The successful candidate will be supposed to:

• Conduct and publ...