The ideal candidate has a good knowledge of philosophy, its history and concepts; he or she possesses the conceptual tools suitable for the development of independent, but above all interdisciplinary research; has good interpersonal skills; has the ability to work in a team in a fruitful manner, expounding one's own point of view, but also adapting to teamwork.

The PhD Student will work together with Labont - Center for Ontology, an interdepartmental center of Unito involving the Departments of Philosophy and Education, Psychology, Law, Management, and Culture, Politics and Society. It seeks to promote scientific research on topics that intersect different subject areas by focusing on ontology (understood as the philosophical discipline that aims at providing an inventory of what exists in a certain domain), and in particular on social ontology and ontology of social organizations, of art, of economics, of law, of gender, of biology, political ontology, ontology of architecture and design, ontology and cognitive science, and psychology.