Postdoctoral Researcher in History of Philosophy and Political Thought at University of Jyväskylä University of Jyväskylä in Finland

The University of Jyväskylä’s Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher in History of Philosophy / History of Political Thought for the project Pride and Politics in Early Modern Thought , funded by the Research Council of Finland. The project examines changing conceptions of pride in early modern Britain and France (c. 1600–c. 1762), with particular attention to how pride was understood, how it related to broader philosophical and theological commitments,...

University of Jyväskylä is advertising a 3-year Postdoctoral Researcher position in History of Philosophy and Islamic Philosophy in Finland . The project is titled Illuminationist Philosophy in the Islamic World and focuses on the reception of Suhrawardī's philosophy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Islamic thought . This is a strong fit for researchers working in philosophy, intellectual history, Islamic studies, and related humanities fields. The appointment begins in January 2027 and is d...

The University of Helsinki is inviting applications for a fixed-term University Researcher position in Intellectual History within the Centre of Excellence Meliorist Philosophy of Suffering (MePhiS) , funded by the Research Council of Finland and hosted at the Faculty of Theology, City Centre Campus. The position sits in the research team History of Ethics and Law of Responding to Suffering . The project examines how medieval and early modern thinkers conceptualised suffering and developed ethic...

Doctoral Researcher in Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä , Finland, in Professor Jari Kaukua’s ISHRAQ project on Illuminationist philosophy in the Islamic world. The project studies Suhrawardī’s philosophical legacy from the 13th to the 17th century and aims to build an online database of Illuminationist texts. The doctoral dissertation should focus on the reception of Suhrawardī’s philosophy in 14th- and/or 15th-century CE philosophical, theological, or Sufi authors in the Islamic world...

Doctoral Researcher in Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä , Finland, in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy. The position is part of a multidisciplinary academic environment with internationally recognized research and teaching in the humanities and social sciences. The research profile highlighted in the posting includes philosophy, cultural history, communication, languages, and broader social-scientific inquiry, with the fa...