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Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

The 6th Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy will take place in the  St Andrews on 7-8 May.
The Senate Room, St Mary’s College, South Street.
  • Han Adriaenssen and Sander de Boer: ‘Aristotelian Responses to Mechanization’
  • Thomas Ahnert: ‘Moral Culture and Religion in the Scottish Enlightenment’
  • Ruairidh Brown: ‘Authenticity in Adam Smith’
  • Jason Fisette: ‘Hume on the Passions’
  • Moira Gatens: ‘Spinoza and the Art of Fiction’
  • Heikki Haara: ‘Pufendorf on Esteem and Sociability’
  • Alzbeta Hajkova: ‘Equality in Locke’
  • Stephen Howard: ‘Leibniz’s Dynamics’
  • Hannah Laurens: ‘Reconsidering Spinoza’s Rationalism’
  • Alan Nelson: ‘Locke on Inner Sense’
  • Sarah Patterson: ‘Descartes’s Appeal to Divine Veracity’
  • Thomas Pye: ‘Hume on English Liberty’
For details of the programme, see:
For further information, contact James Harris at:
There will be no charge, but please let us know if you are planning to attend the seminar.
We are grateful for financial support to the Scots Philosophical Association, the Institute of Intellectual History, the Department of Philosophy at St Andrews, Brill Academic Publishers, the British Society for the History of Philosophy, and ANR Anthropos (ENS Lyon).
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2016-2017 EURIAS Fellowship Programme Call for Applications

The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme offering 10-month residencies in one of the 16 participating Institutes: Berlin, Bologna, Budapest, Cambridge, Delmenhorst, Edinburgh, Freiburg, Helsinki, Jerusalem, Lyon, Marseille, Paris, Uppsala, Vienna, Wassenaar, Zürich. The Institutes for Advanced Study support the focused, self-directed work of outstanding researchers. The fellows benefit from the finest intellectual and research conditions and from the stimulating environment of a multi-disciplinary and international community of first-rate scholars.

EURIAS Fellowships are mainly offered in the fields of the humanities and social sciences but may also be granted to scholars in life and exact sciences, provided that their proposed research project does not require laboratory facilities and that it interfaces with humanities and social sciences. The diversity of the 16 participating IAS offers a wide range of possible research contexts in Europe for worldwide scholars.

Applicants may select up to three IAS outside their country of nationality or residence as possible host institutions.

The Programme welcomes applications worldwide from promising young scholars as well as from leading senior researchers. The EURIAS selection process has proven to be highly competitive. To match the Programme standards, applicants have to submit a solid and innovative research proposal, to demonstrate the ability to forge beyond disciplinary specialisation, to show an international commitment as well as quality publications in high-impact venues.

For the 2016-2017 academic year EURIAS offers 43 fellowships (21 junior and 22 senior positions).

All IAS have agreed on common standards, including the provision of a living allowance (in the range of €26,000 for a junior fellow and € 38,000 for a senior fellow), accommodation (or a mobility allowance), a research budget, plus coverage of travel expenses.

APPLICATION

– Applications are submitted online via www.eurias-fp.eu, where, you will find detailed information regarding the content of the application, eligibility criteria, and selection procedure.

– Applications period April 9th ? June 5th, 2015, 12 pm (noon) GMT.

– Late applications will not be considered.

SELECTION PROCEDURE

– Scientific assessment by two international reviewers

– Pre-selection by the international EURIAS Scientific Committee

– Final selection by the IAS Academic Boards

— Publication of results: January 2016

For further information on the Programme, please consult our website: www.eurias-fp.eu

For further information on the IAS and their specific working conditions: www.eurias-fp.eu/ias