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 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 at the department

Lecture
Lindström Lectures 2024: Phokion G. Kolaitis
Welcome to the Lindström Lectures. Invited guest speaker for the seminars in 2024 is Phokion G. Kolaitis, Distinguished…
Dissertation
Vidya Somashekarappa
Look on my thesis, ye mighty – Gaze interaction and social robotics
Dissertation
Maximilian Zachrau
Fundamental Dynamicity – A Metaphysics of Time and Process
Conference
Conference: Multimodality and Interaction in Language Learning (MILLing)
Multimodality and Interaction in Language Learning (MILLing) will bring together researchers in linguistics and…

We offer two International Master's Programmes

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Logic, Master's Programme
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Master in Language Technology

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Our research at the department

Navigate to video: Furhat jokes with Professor Chris Howes
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Furhat jokes with Professor Chris Howes
Research project/group
A dialogue-based theory of evidentiality
Automatic pseudonymization of research data
Grandma Karl is 27 years old
News – 8 March 2024
Preserving Linguistic Diversity
Since 2003, the Torgny Segerstedt Foundation has annually appointed a guest professor whose research exhibits the ethos of…
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New books written by philosophers, linguists and theorists of science
Do you wish to know about the books published recently, written by researchers at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics…
News (in Swedish)
Can animals and AI be held responsible?
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 – 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 – 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
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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
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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…
Research project
The dynamic management of mismatches

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Soon, chat bots will be able to laugh at your jokes. They also know when you’re going to laugh – even before you are aware…
Doctoral Studies – we offer postgraduate education in seven subjects
Our department offers postgraduate (third cycle) education in six subjects.
News – 18 August 2022
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Understanding Aristotle’s view of language and science
PhD student in Logic
"Faulty reasoning behind most bad things in the world"

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The Jubilee Archive: Initial Inventory, Digitization and Analysis of the…
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