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!

Current events at our department

Dissertation
Richard Endörfer defends his thesis
Weapons of Mass Destruction: Financial Crises from a Philosophical Perspective
Seminar
Licentiate seminar: Giacomo Barlucchi
Licentiate seminar in logic: "Computational Content of Fixed Points".
Dissertation
Jakob Lundgren's public defence
How transdisciplinary collaborations recognize contributions without a consensus of meaning
Our research
Research Seminars at FLoV

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Master in Language Technology
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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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