Department of English and Philosophy seeking possible adjunct instructors in philosophy capable of teaching Applied Ethics online, using Blackboard 9. Please send letter of interest and vita to Robert Evans, Interim Chair, Department of English and Philosophy, Auburn University Montgomery, Montgomery, AL 36124-4023. Please send the requested materials ASAP to revans [__at__] aum [dot] edu. Please indicate your ability to teach using Blackboard 9; presence in Montgomery not required.

AOS: History of Philosophy
AOC: Open

This position is a 3-year Lectureship (Level B) in the area of the History of Modern Philosophy, up to the end of the nineteenth century, including the rise of the rationalist and empiricist traditions, as well as the Kantian and post-Kantian era. You will be expected to research, teach and administer at levels commensurate with the level of the position. You must be a proven and successful teacher with a strong record of research.

Further details can be found online
http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=658220

Closing date: 15 August 2010 (Australian Eastern Standard Time)

Yearly Salary: Approximately 25,000 US dollars

Qualification: M.A. in philosophy preferred. B.A. in philosophy will be considered.

An assistant instructor will assist a master instructor (professor) in teaching a 100 level philosophy course. About 375 students register for the course a semester. His duty includes (1) grading exams, quizzes, term papers, and postings in online discussion boards, (2) commenting on students’ postings in the online discussion boards, (3) assigning final grades to students, and (4) responding to students’ email inquiries. He will sit in master instructors’ offline classes at least two times a week. He will not teach any offline class. So he will act more like a teaching assistant than a professor teaching an independent course. Contract can be renewed every year depending on the job performance.

Send your resume to nature [__at__] unist [dot] ac [dot] kr.

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to work on a project that is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, and jointly hosted by the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics (both of which are within the Faculty of Philosophy). The project is entitled Emotion and Intuition in Moral Decision‐Making: Empirical Evidence and Ethical Implications.

Protocol reference number: HUM/09100F/E

Salary Grade 7: £28,983 ‐ £35,646 per annum at 1 October 2009.

The fellowship is for two years from the date of appointment. The Research Fellow will be based at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, which is located at Littlegate House in central Oxford, where the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics is also based.

The Research Fellow’s primary role will be to conduct research for the project, by studying the philosophical and ethical implications of scientific accounts of morality, and will also be an integral part of the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics. In addition to research responsibilities, s/he will be expected to contribute in other ways which may include, for example, involvement in conference or other event organisation and editing a collected volume.

The successful candidate will have a strong academic background in one or more of the following: (1) moral philosophy or a branch of ethics (2) philosophy of mind/psychology/neuroscience, (3) empirical research on moral decision‐making; and an outstanding research record. By the date of appointment, applicants will be expected to have received (or submitted their thesis for) the degree of PhD (or equivalent).

Further particulars, including details about how to apply are available from the following websites:

www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/vacancies.htm

or directly from Nicholas Iles, Suite 8, Littlegate House, Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, University of Oxford, Littlegate House 16 – 17 St Ebbes Street, Oxford, OX1 1PT
(telephone: +44 1865 286279; fax: +44 1865 286886)