Re­se­arch Po­si­ti­on (m/f/d) (Post­doc)

The position is based in the ERC research group REASONS F1RST – The Structure of Normativity, Department of Philosopy (PI: Benjamin Kiesewetter).

Project description: 

Some of the core fields of philosophy – including moral philosophy, value theory, and epistemology – are, at their heart, concerned with normative questions: questions about what is good or bad, right or wrong, justified or unjustified. These questions concern the content of judgements that human beings are constantly making and that structure our way of thinking, feeling, and acting. But while there is wide agreement in contemporary philosophy that normative judgements form a unified and important category of human thought, philosophers still struggle to understand what normativity actually is. One highly attractive hypothesis is that normativity can be analysed in terms of reasons – in terms of the factors that count in favour of or against actions or attitudes. The aim of REASONS F1RST is to systema...