Postdoctoral Researcher in History of Philosophy / History of Political Thought University of Jyväskylä in Finland

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...

The Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä is recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy for a 3-year fixed-term project appointment beginning on 4 January 2027, or later by mutual agreement. The position is embedded in Professor Jari Kaukua’s research project Illuminationist Philosophy in the Islamic World (ISHRAQ) , funded by the Research Council of Finland . The project investigates the philosophical legacy of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī from the t...

University of Helsinki, Faculty of Humanities, is inviting applications for 1-2 Postdoctoral Researcher positions in the study of Ancient Near East . The project is part of the ANEE+ research community , with research themes spanning the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia from prehistory to late antiquity. The call especially welcomes proposals that connect different fields of science and fit the network’s interdisciplinary goals. Relevant academic backgrounds include Assyriology, Egyptology...