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Future of Humanity Institute hiring postdocs from philosophy, math, CS

4 Post author: CarlShulman 02 February 2011 12:39AM

The application deadline for the two Research Fellowships with the new Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, has been extended to 21 February.

The posts are:

1. Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, with emphasis on philosophy
2. Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, with emphasis on computer science, cognitive science, or mathematics

Further details at: www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/get_involved/future_tech_vacancies/futuretech.

 

Comments (7)

Comment author: false_vacuum 02 February 2011 02:28:19AM 4 points [-]

I guess I should have got myself that philosophy Ph.D. after all.

Comment author: lukeprog 02 February 2011 06:22:00AM 7 points [-]

<snark> Meh. There was no way you could have predicted someone would be posting jobs for philosophers who want to be useful to the world. </snark>

Comment author: Alexandros 02 February 2011 12:07:16PM 2 points [-]

Soooo, have you applied then? :D

Comment author: JoshuaZ 02 February 2011 01:45:31AM 1 point [-]

This is showing in a very tiny font (checked in both Firefox and Internet Explorer so I'm pretty sure it isn't on my end).

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 02 February 2011 03:08:24PM *  0 points [-]

It's normal for me. I guess it's been fixed.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 02 February 2011 08:07:06PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, well normal for me now too. So presumably fixed.

Comment author: false_vacuum 02 February 2011 02:25:56AM 0 points [-]

Yeah, what gives?