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

Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science

Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of Science
  2. Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science

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!

Upcoming events

Seminar
"Språkbanken" as a resource for linguistic analysis
Welcome to this seminar entitled "If you want some help with counting words, who you gonna call? Språkbanken!"
Exhibition
Echoes of the Future: An AI Exhibition
Echoes of the Future: An AI Exhibition is a graduation exhibition hosted by students at the Bachelor's programme Media,…
Conference
The Ethics of Inefficacy
Welcome to University of Gothenburg and our conference The Ethics of Inefficacy, in June 2025. Recently, interest in the…
Dissertation
Mattias Granberg Olsson
Fixed IDs about Truth: Truth and Fixpoints over Intuitionistic Arithmetic

International programmes

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Logic, Master's Programme
FURHAT PRESENTATION for students at the master programme H2LTG
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Master in Language Technology

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Our research at the department

News – 20 January 2025
Return-to-work process with ethical conflicts
Research project/group
A dialogue-based theory of evidentiality
Research project/group
The Network for Underexplored Linguistic Diversity
Automatic pseudonymization of research data
Grandma Karl is 27 years old
Conference at Humanisten
Logic Colloquium 2024
Navigate to video: Furhat jokes with Professor Chris Howes
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Furhat jokes with Professor Chris Howes
Research story/portrait
New books written by our staff members
Välkommen till denna sida där vi samlat information om nya böcker av skribenter som jobbar på Institutionen för filosofi,…
News – 2 May 2023
Language models with a human touch
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…
News – 19 April 2024
The Importance of Gaze in Human-Robot Communication
Human communication extends beyond speech – gaze reveals much about our intentions and engagement. In a new thesis in…
News – 5 September 2023
Everyone's concern to remove drug residue
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…
Our research
Research Areas
The research environment at our department is very international with more than 20 nationalities represented. The research…
Our research
Research Seminars at FLoV
Our research seminars at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, FLoV, are listed below. Please…
Research project/group
CLASP - Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability
Research project/group
Financial Ethics Research Group
Research project/group
Foundations for team semantics: Meaning in an enriched framework
Navigate to video: Meet Simon Dobnik, professor of Computational Linguistics
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Meet Simon Dobnik, professor of Computational Linguistics
Research project/group
Taming Jörmungandr: The Logical Foundations of Circularity
Research project/group
How do words get in order? The role of speaker-hearer interaction in languages…
Research project
The dynamic management of mismatches

Doctoral Studies at FLoV

Doctoral Studies – we offer postgraduate education in seven subjects
Our department offers postgraduate (third cycle) education in six subjects. Our research environment is international, with…
PhD student in Logic
"Faulty reasoning behind most bad things in the world"

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