Call for applications: 3 PhD Scholarships in social ontology / social cognition

Deadline: 9 June 2025

Salary: 16.000 Euro per academic year (tax-free), plus research expenses

Duration: 3 years, from 1 October 2025

Requirements: title of Master’s degree or equivalent, before 31 October 2025

The scholarships are funded by the University of Milan on the project FIS2 Advanced Grant “The Normative Roots of Social Kinds”. The recipients will work with Professor Francesco Guala and/or Professor John Michael on practices of social classification and the normative basis of joint action. We welcome applications from candidates with a background in philosophy and/or social cognition. More details about the scholarships can be found here: https://www.iusspavia.it/en/education/doctoral-programmes/human-mind-and-its-explanations-language-brain-and-reasoning-hume/apply

‘The Human Mind and Its Explanations: Language, Brain and Reasoning’ (HuME) is a PhD programme jointly run by the University of Milan, IUSS Pavia, and Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa). It offers every year a few scholarships for students working at the intersection between philosophy and cognitive science. For more information: https://www.iusspavia.it/en/education/doctoral-programmes/human-mind-and-its-explanations-language-brain-and-reasoning-hume

Detailed call for applications: https://www.iusspavia.it/en/education/doctoral-programmes/human-mind-and-its-explanations-language-brain-and-reasoning-hume/apply

Contact: francesco.guala@unimi.it ; john.michael@unimi.it