Assistant Professor at InsideHigherEd

Philosophy - 311900

10/09/2025

12/31/2025

No

Permanent Faculty

Assistant Professor

Tenured/Tenure Track

FAC0005678

Full-Time Permanent

40

1

North Carolina, US

Dependent on Experience and/or Qualifications

07/01/2026

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The Department of Philosophy is committed to advancing and transmitting an understanding of fundamental questions of reality, knowledge, and value, and is an essential element of a liberal education. The Department of Philosophy looks at the history of struggles to answer these fundamental questions and develops analytical and critical resources for engaging these questions as they arise in individual and common experience. There is a permanent faculty count of 21 and a fixed-term faculty count of 5 (depending on academic year and funding availability) who provide instruction on both the Undergraduate and graduate level. The Department currently enrolls hundreds of students every fall, spring and summer and houses the PPE Program (Philosophy, Political Science and Economics) and the Parr Center for Ethics. There are also 37 enrolled graduate student teaching assistants who provide instruction to undergraduates throughout the academic year. Both the faculty and the graduate students are actively engaged in research in areas including ethics, political philosophy, ancient philosophy, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of language.

The Department of Philosophy is recruiting for a tenure-track Assistant Professor with interests in any area of philosophy, with current areas of need including areas of political philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of science, early modern philosophy, philosophy of race and/or gender, aesthetics, and non-Western philosophy. Significant promise of research excellence is a necessary condition for consideration, as is evidence of strong skills in teaching. The successful applicant will normally teach two courses per semester (graduate and/or undergraduate); will be involved in thesis supervision; and will have other standard non-teaching duties such as departmental administration, graduate and undergraduate mentorship, and participation in our department’s vigorous intellectual life.

Ph.D in Philosophy or a related field.

Ph.D in Philosophy or a related field.

Not Applicable.

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