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!

New research projects

Research project/group
Foundations for team semantics: Meaning in an enriched framework
Research project
The dynamic management of mismatches

Current events at our department

Seminar
Licentiate seminar: Tjeerd Fokkens
Licentiate seminar in logic: "Modelling the logical mind".
Christopher Tancredi, Keio university, Tokyo
6 Feb: Linguistics Seminar: I-Semantics
The Lindström Lectures
The Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science at the University of Gothenburg launched a lecture series in…
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…
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 – Apply now

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Logic, Master's Programme

Our research at the department

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

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New leadership at the Department
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