University of Gothenburg
Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science
Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science

Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science

Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of Science
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At the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science researchers work on many international, interdisciplinary projects related to Theoretical and Practical Philosophy, Logic, Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Language Technology and Theory of Science. You who want to study with us can choose courses and programmes in these subject areas, from undergraduate to postgraduate education. Welcome!

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Dissertation
Paiman Karimi
Dissertation for Ph.D. in Practical Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and…
Dissertation
Dorna Behdadi: Nonhuman Moral Agency: A Practice-Focused Exploration of Moral…
Dissertation for Ph.D. in Practical Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and…

We offer two International Master's Programmes – open now for application

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Logic, Master's Programme
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Master in Language Technology
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News – 2 June 2023
Theory of Science and Philosophy researchers awarded Pro Futura
Two researchers at University of Gothenburg have been selected for the Pro Futura Scientia XVIII programme: Jack Wright and…
News – 16 June 2023
Pauli Kortteinen continues as Deputy Vice-Chancellor for education
News – 2 May 2023
Language models with a human touch
The new impressive GPT models produce texts which appear to be written by a person. But can the models really create human…
News – 16 May 2023
From traditional methods to AI: Researchers gain new insights
The development of artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing rapidly, and it is affecting research. The use of AI and…
News – 30 March 2023
Distributional effects an important issue for moral philosophy
How should society manage inflation? There are no simple answers to this question, but from a practical philosophy point of…

New research projects

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A dialogue-based theory of evidentiality
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The dynamic management of mismatches
Automatic pseudonymization of research data
Grandma Karl is 27 years old
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Foundations for team semantics: Meaning in an enriched framework
Our research
Research Seminars at FLoV
Our research seminars at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, FLoV, are listed below. Please…

Our research at the department

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Research Areas
The research environment at our department is very international with more than 20 nationalities represented. The research…
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Meet Simon Dobnik, professor of Computational Linguistics
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Taming Jörmungandr: The Logical Foundations of Circularity
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CLASP - Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability
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Project Aristotelian Science
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How do words get in order? The role of speaker-hearer interaction in languages…
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Financial Ethics Research Group

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News – 8 April 2022
New leadership at the Department

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