Postdoc (m/f/x)

The Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) is one of the leading research universities in Germany. As a reform-oriented campus university, it uniquely combines the entire range of major scientific fields in one place. The dynamic coexistence of subjects and subject cultures offers researchers and students alike special opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration. Within the framework of the ERC Advanced Grant "Contradictory Logics: A Radical Challenge to Logical Orthodoxy" (Prof. Heinrich Wansing), the following position is available at the Ruhr University Bochum:

For the subproject on experiments related to contradictory logics, a postdoc is sought with excellent knowledge in experiments on reasoning. The overarching project studies certain non-trivial contradictory logics. The goal of the project is to gain systematic and detailed insights into the extent to which competent speakers of a natural language respond positively to (instances of) provable contradictions. Guided by the insight that the inconsistency of non-trivial contradictory logics results from a combination of standard conditions for supporting the truth or falsity of a statement with less familiar conditions, the subproject will use qualitative empirical research methods to test agreement with (a) sentences expressing the unfamiliar conditions and (b) contradictions that are provable in the inconsistent logics under study.