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Two PhD student positions in logic, Tilburg (The Netherlands), Deadline: 15 October 2011

The Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS)
invites applications for two fully funded four-year PhD positions.

1 PhD student in Natural Logic and Linguistic Semantics
1 PhD student in Computational Logic and Natural Reasoning

Individuals are encouraged to apply who have an interest in logical
and computational theories of ordinary reasoning, natural logic,
and/or linguistic semantics and who want to investigate these topics
in an interdisciplinary setting where linguistic investigation is
combined with tableau theorem proving and model checking. The
positions are part of the program "Towards Logics that Model Natural
Reasoning", funded by a Free Competition grant from the Netherlands
Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and led by Reinhard
Muskens. More information about this program and about the projects
can be found at http://tinyurl.com/tilnatlog.

These positions are open to candidates with a master's degree or
equivalent and successful candidates are required to complete a PhD
thesis within maximally four years.

We expect the willingness to work in an international
interdisciplinary research environment. The PhD candidates will
receive a starting salary of 2042 Euro gross per month in the first
year. The salary in the last year is 2612 Euro.

Applications (in English) should include a cover letter, a
curriculum vitae, a two-page research proposal, and the names of two
references. Candidates are also invited to include a sample of their
writing, if one is available in English, French, German or Dutch.
Only applications made with the help of our Application Wizard will
be taken into consideration:

- Go to http://tinyurl.com/tilvacs
- Click on the relevant vacancy
- Click "apply directly".

The deadline for applications is October 15, 2011. For more
information about TiLPS, visit http://tinyurl.com/tilps.