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
  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, Theory of Science and Ancient and Medieval Philosophy and Classical Philology. You who want to study with us can choose courses and programmes in these subject areas, from undergraduate to postgraduate education. Welcome!

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 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 – 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 – 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
Conference
Conference: Learning with Small Data (LSD)
There is now an acute need for intensive research on the possibility of effective learning with small data. Our 2023…
Research project
The dynamic management of mismatches
Automatic pseudonymization of research data
Grandma Karl is 27 years old
Research project/group
Foundations for team semantics: Meaning in an enriched framework
Our research
Research Seminars at FLoV
Our 15 research seminars at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, FLoV, are listed below. …

International Master's Programmes

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Logic, Master's Programme

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
Research project/group
Taming Jörmungandr: The Logical Foundations of Circularity
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Project Aristotelian Science
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CLASP - Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability
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How do words get in order? The role of speaker-hearer interaction in languages…
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The Limits of Forgiveness
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Financial Ethics Research Group
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Filling the Gap: Medieval Aristotelian Logic 1240–1360

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Doctoral Studies – we offer postgraduate education in seven subjects
Our department offers postgraduate (third cycle) education in six subjects.
News – 18 August 2022
Certain environment authority decisions are based on trust in citizen data
Understanding Aristotle’s view of language and science
PhD student in Logic
"Faulty reasoning behind most bad things in the world"
News – 8 April 2022
New leadership at the Department
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