Jacobsen Fellowship in Philosophy

The Jacobsen Fellowship

The Jacobsen Fellowship has been established from a gift by Mr J A B Jacobsen, and is offered for research in Philosophy in the general field of ‘The Personal and Impersonal Character of Life in the Universe and the Human Person’. The Jacobsen Panel interprets this to track any area of philosophy. (The research topics of former Fellows have included the following: Philosophical Issues in Psychology and Psychiatry; Universals and Particulars; Philosophy and Language in Classical India; Time, Mind and Memory; Feminist Questions in Epistemology; Anti-realism in the Philosophy of Mathematics; The Nature of Fiction; the Philosophy of Spinoza; Models to represent and explain natural and social phenomena, and The Physics of Life.)

The Role

Applications are invited for a Jacobsen Fellowship in Philosophy tenable at the University of London from September 2025 for a maximum period of three years. The successful candidate must undertake a full programme of original research approved by the Jacobsen Panel. The fellow is required to submit a short interim report to the Jacobsen Panel towards the end of the first and second year of tenure, and a fuller final report at the expiration of tenure of the Fellowship.

Fellows must hold a doctorate or have effectively completed their doctoral thesis at the start of tenure of the Fellowship.

For the further particulars, please see below.

Further information

To be considered for this opportunity, please submit your application and materials (by clicking ‘apply for job’ at the bottom of this page) before the closing date at midnight BST on 30 April 2025.

The University of London is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive working environment where we can all be ourselves and succeed. We particularly encourage applications from members of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic communities as this group is currently under-represented at all levels within the University. All appointments will be made on merit, based on the criteria identified in the job description.

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