Our project “Knowledge and Decision” came to an end in spring 2022. It was a great experience – thanks to everyone involved!
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Move to Dresden
Our project is on the move! From October 2020 onwards it will be located at the “Technische Universität” Dresden.
New Post-Doc
It is our great pleasure to announce that Benjamin Kiesewetter will be with the project for the upcoming year. Welcome, Benjamin!
New Post-Doc
It is our great pleasure to announce that Alexander Dinges joins the project as a visiting post-doc for the present summer semester. Welcome, Alexander!
1 Year Post-Doc Position
We are pleased to announce a 1 year post-doc position with the Emmy-Noether project “Knowledge and Decision”.
You find all relevant details here.
And FAQs are answered here.
Please note that we have a two-step application process in which step 1 is fully anonymous. For this to be possible, please contact only the e-mail address mentioned in the advertisement.
Update: The position has been filled.
Internal Summer Workshop
During the break, we usually host a small internal workshop. Everyone is welcome to attend. As the workshop is pre-read, please contact Moritz at moritz.schulz[at]uni-hamburg[dot]de for getting access to the papers. This summer’s schedule looks like this:
10-11:30 Patricia Rich, “The Logic of Probabilistic Knowledge”
11:30-12 Coffee
12-13:30 Moritz Schulz, “Justification and Causal Models”
13:30-15 Lunch at a Vietnamese place
15-16:30 Jacques Vollet, “In Defence of the Certainty Norm for Assertion”
16:30-17 Coffee
17-18 Roman Heil, “Unsafe Knowledge, Individual Cases and Mixed Reference Classes”
19:00 Dinner at Froindlichst (a vegan burger place in walking distance)
Venue: R 03026 (“Besprechungsraum”), Überseering 35.
Internal Workshop
The Emmy-Noether group hosts a small internal workshop to connect some of the research going on in Hamburg.
The programme will be this:
10:15-10:30: Welcoming coffee.
10:30-11:45: Jakob Koscholke (Hamburg), “Average mutual firmness and relative overlap: disentangling two explicata of coherence”
12:00-13:15: Jacques Vollet (Hamburg/Geneva), “The necessity of knowledge for action and the excuse manœuvre”
Lunch
15:00-16:15: Richard Dietz (Hamburg/Tokio), “Decision Making with Imprecise Preferences: Revisiting the Opaque Sweetening Problem”
16:30-17:45: Judith Simon (Hamburg), “Trust & Big Data”
Drinks/Dinner
Venue: Überseering 35, Room 03080, 22297 Hamburg.
Glasgow-Hamburg Workshop
Patricia and Moritz speak at the Glasgow-Hamburg Workshop (10-11th of February).
PhD Position
The project is currently looking for a PhD candidate to join the project. The position is fully funded and lasts for three years (it is ranked at a salary level of 65% compared to a full position). The candidate will be embedded into the project enabling him/her to profit from discussions with other project members working on similar issues. The position also comes with general travel funds and the opportunity to organize a workshop on one’s PhD topic or invite relevant guest speakers. You can find the official call for application here.
Update: The position has now been filled.
First Workshop
We are happy to announce our first workshop, an Oldenburg meets Hamburg even on rationality. You can see the program here!
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