Arete Professorial Fellow in Philosophy & Religion

Hillsdale College invites applications for a full-time, postdoctoral position in the Department of Philosophy and Religion. This is a three-year position.

The Arete Professorial Fellow will be a part of the Arete Research Center and will positively contribute to the intellectual leadership of the “Launching Experimental Philosophy of Religion” project (generously funded by the John Templeton Foundation) and its research outputs. The aim of the “Launching Experimental Philosophy of Religion” project is to kick-start broader, interdisciplinary research in the area of “experimental philosophy of religion”—the project of taking some of the tools and conceptual resources of experimental philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science to help us better understand (i) the cognitive genesis of our intuitions and beliefs concerning arguments in philosophy of religion/theology, (ii) whether the cognitive mechanisms that produce a given intuition/belief are reliable, and (iii) what influences variation in intuitions across demographics (if/when there is variation).

The Arete Professorial Fellow will also teach two courses per semester including Hillsdale’s core philosophy course, The Western Philosophical Tradition, and some upper division courses. The Fellow will devote approximately 33% of their time to the project and 66% of their time to teaching each semester.

AOS: Open; however, expertise in experimental philosophy, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of cognitive science is highly desirable

AOC: Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Ethics, or Philosophy of Language

Hillsdale College, founded in 1844, is a selective, independent four-year liberal arts college of 1,450 students. Hillsdale has traditionally upheld two concepts: academic excellence and institutional independence. The College is committed to excellence in teaching and is informed by the Greco-Roman philosophical tradition and the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.