Teaching Fellow in Ethics and Political Philosophy - Durham
The Role and Department
The Department of Philosophy at Durham University seeks to appoint a talented early-career philosopher to a fixed-term Teaching Fellowship. We particularly welcome applicants with research and teaching interests in the broad field of Ethics and Political Philosophy. Since the Department's teaching needs may change during the fellowship, we seek applicants who are adaptable and have a broad range of teaching interests.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a department that pursues world-leading and world-changing research. The Philosophy Department at Durham University has concentrations of research expertise across four research clusters: Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics; History of Philosophy; Mind, Language and Metaphysics, and Science, Medicine, and Society. It is home to the Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society (CHESS) and has strong links with other interdisciplinary research centres and institutes at Durham .
At postgraduate and undergraduate levels,



our students can choose from a wide range of teaching, spanning the whole discipline of philosophy and the history and philosophy of science and medicine. The Department's undergraduate programmes are to be found among the top 10 in national rankings for philosophy (The Guardian, The Complete University Guide and The Times). The Department has one of the largest PhD programmes in the UK, and many of our students go on to pursue highly successful academic careers.
Benefiting from strong student recruitment, the Department has expanded significantly in recent years, investing in key research areas including philosophy of health and medicine, environmental philosophy and philosophy of Al and information. We are using this opportunity to create a scholarly community that is open, representative, and diverse: our commitment to this is expressed through the work of the Department's Diversity and Inclusion Group, and our Fa

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