Postes vacants
Three 4-year Postdoctoral Fellowships on Non-Identity Problems at the Université de Fribourg
Applications are invited for three 4-year postdoctoral fellowships at the Université de Fribourg (Switzerland) as part of a research project on non-identity problems funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and directed by Prof. Ralf Bader. The project will examine non-identity problems as they arise in the context of population ethics, wrongful life cases, historical injustice and historical regret, trying to identify solutions to the particular problems and exploring how these problems are related to each other.
Salary:
Roughly CHF 60,000 per annum.
Duration of employment:
1st September 2026 -- 31st August 2030.
Applications received by 15th February 2026 will be given the fullest consideration. Applications consisting of:
1. curriculum vitae,
2. an outline of the research to be carried out during the fellowship of about 1-2 pages,
3. a writing sample of about 15-20 pages
should be sent by email to Stéphanie Jorge-Niklaus: stephanie.niklaus@unifr.ch
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2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Université de Fribourg
Applications are invited for one two-year postdoctoral fellowships at the Université de Fribourg (Switzerland) as part of the research project 'Liberty, Equality, and Utility: Assessing the trade-offs between individual liberty, well-being, and material equality' funded by the John Templeton Foundation and directed by Prof. Ralf Bader.
Project description: The research project will shed new light on the conflicts between liberty and material equality, as well as between individual well-being and material equality. It will do so by examining the price of equality, assessing whether and in what ways it can be traded off against liberty and well-being. By drawing on formal methods and results from economics, especially from social choice theory and decision theory, the project aims to identify the precise ways in which individual freedom is incompatible with a commitment to material equality and aims to develop dynamic models and calibration arguments that examine the conflicts between material equality and well-being.
Salary:
Roughly CHF 70,000 per annum.
Duration of employment:
1st September 2026 -- 31st August 2028.
Applications received by 1st February 2026 will be given the fullest consideration. Applications consisting of:
1. curriculum vitae,
2. an outline of the research to be carried out during the fellowship of about 1-2 pages,
3. a writing sample of about 15-20 pages
should be sent by email to Stéphanie Jorge-Niklaus: stephanie.niklaus@unifr.ch
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1-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ethics & Political Philosophy at the Université de Fribourg
Applications are invited for a 1-year postdoctoral fellowship in ethics and political philosophy at the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland.
Requirements:
- PhD degree in philosophy.
- Very good knowledge of both English and either French or German.
- Research project in ethics or political philosophy (broadly construed).
Responsibilities:
- Teaching one semester-long BA-seminar either in French or in German.
- Supporting administrative tasks, research activities and teaching of the chair for ethics and political philosophy (Prof. Ralf Bader).
Salary range:
CHF 39,407 -- CHF 47,597 per annum, depending on prior experience.
Duration of employment:
1st September 2026 -- 31st August 2027.
Applications received by 1st February 2026 will be given the fullest consideration. Applications consisting of:
1. curriculum vitae,
2. an outline of the research to be carried out during the fellowship of about 1-2 pages,
3. a writing sample of about 15-20 pages
should be sent by email to Stéphanie Jorge-Niklaus: stephanie.niklaus@unifr.ch
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1-year Post-Doctoral Felloswhip in ancient philosophy
Applications are invited for a 1-year postdoctoral fellowship in ancient philosophy at the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland.
Requirements:
- PhD degree in philosophy.
- Very good knowledge of both English and either French or German.
- Research project in ancient philosophy (preferable connected to Plato’s Sophist, broadly construed).
Responsibilities:
- Teaching one semester-long BA-seminar either in French or in German.
- Supporting administrative tasks, research activities and teaching of the chair for ancient philosophy (Prof. Béatrice Lienemann).
Salary range:
CHF 39,407 -- CHF 47,597 per annum, depending on prior experience.
Duration of employment:
1st September 2026 -- 31st August 2027.
Applications received by 1st February 2026 will be given the fullest consideration. Applications consisting of:
1. curriculum vitae,
2. motivation letter,
3. an outline of the research to be carried out during the fellowship of about 1-2 pages,
4. a writing sample of about 15-20 pages
should be sent by email to Prof. Béatrice Lienemann: bearice.lienemann@unifr.ch