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Visiting Fellow Position Description

The title of Visiting Fellow carries with it full university privileges (library, etc.) but no remuneration or official duties. Unfortunately, our quarters are extremely limited and in most years we can take only two visitors, generally one Visiting Fellow and one Research Associate.

There are always more candidates for Visiting Fellow than we can accommodate. The Center itself could hardly be smaller. Currently it consists of Prof. Dennett, Research Professor Marcel Kinsbourne, Visiting Fellow Jochen Faseler (Spring 2005), Research Associate Richard Griffin (2003-5) and the Center's Program Assistant. A Visiting Fellow does not get an office, but is allowed use of the Center’s telephone, copier, fax, and the assistance of the Center's Program Assistant, plus access to our unusual reprint/preprint library in cognitive science as well as borrowing privileges at all Tufts' libraries.

In deciding whom to invite, Prof. Dennett gives primary consideration to the likely fit between his own current work and that of the candidate. If he will not be around (due to a heavy speaking schedule, sabbatical or whatever) he is not disposed to appoint ANY visitors because he considers the intellectual interaction that they bring to the Center too valuable to waste. So the acceptance of a Visiting Fellow is somewhat dependent on his schedule for the academic year.

POSITION POSTING: Research Associate for 2005-2006


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