Stockholm University takes pride in its research in philosophy, which covers fundamental questions pertaining to ontology, knowledge, consciousness, language and logic as well as questions pertaining to value, justice and moral action. Since 2007 philosophy has been ranked as a leading research area within the University.
Research in philosophy at Stockholm University is nationally leading and internationally recognised
Our research
Applied ethics
Applied ethics examines practical moral problems and offers guidance for solving them, typically by employing concepts and arguments from ethical theory.
Research within the broad area of metaphysics is focused on the metaphysics of mind and language, including foundational semantics, the mind body problem, the nature of intentionality and the metaphysics of perception.
Normative ethics seeks to answer the question of what is good or bad, how we should live, and how we should act, given that our decisions inevitably affect others for better or
Philosophy of mind investigates a broad set of questions concerning the mind and its nature. One set of issues relates to the so called mind-body problem.
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