Research Projects
On-going Projects
- Aesthetic Perception and Cognition
A project funded by the the Swedish Research Council, 2019–2021
Contact: Elisabeth Schellekens Dammann
- An “Attack on the Separation of Powers”? The Legitimacy of Climate Change Litigation in Global Climate Governance. A Case Study of Judges’ Arguments in the United States.
A project funded by the Swedish Research Council, 2021–2023
Contact: Jasmina Nedevska
- Civis Sum
A project funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation within the program Wallenberg Academy Fellows, 2015–2020
Contact: Patricia Mindus
- Combined probabilistic and dichotomous modelling of scientific and quotidian epistemic processes
A project funded by the Swedish Research Council, 2021–2024
Contact: Sven Ove Hansson
- Contributivism
An interdisciplinary project funded by the Swedish Research Council, 2019–2023
Contact at the Department of Philosophy: Patricia Mindus
- Cultural Heritage and Ethics in Peace and Conflicts
An interdisciplinary research network funded by CIRCUS
Contact at the Department of Philosophy: Elisabeth Schellekens Dammann
- Engaging Vulnerability
An interdisciplinary research programme funded by the Swedish Research Council, 2015–2025
Contact at the Department of Philosophy: Sharon Rider
- Extending Liberal Legitimacy: Beyond the State and the Present
A project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2022–2024
Contact: Emil Andersson
- Higher Education as Research Object (HERO)
A multidisciplinary research network at Uppsala University, established spring 2017
Contact at the Department of Philosophy: Sharon Rider
- The Nature of Evaluative Discourse
A project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2020–2022
Contact: Nils Franzén
- New Frontiers of Speech: Philosophy of Language in the Information Age
A project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2020–2022
Contact: Jessica Pepp
- Power Over the Past and the Laws of Nature: Implications for Moral Responsibility
A project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2017–2020
Contact: Maria Svedberg
- Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Reasons for Belief
A project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2019–2021
Contact: Andrew Reisner
- Precious Time: Temporal Aspects of Well-Being
A project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2019–2022
Contact: Karl Ekendahl
- Rational Self-Government: An Investigation of Personal Autonomy
and Its Platonic Origin
A project funded by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (Riksbankens jubileumsfond)
Contact: Olof Pettersson and Pauliina Remes
- The Very Idea of a University: A Philosophical Anthropology of Higher Education
A project funded by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (Riksbankens jubileumsfond), 2019
Contact: Sharon Rider
- Well-Being Subjects
A project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2019–2021
Contact: Erik Carlson and Jens Johansson
- The Wisdom of the Crowd: The Evidential Role of Convergence and Consensus
A project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2021–2023
Contact: Olle Risberg

Closed Projects
- Arbitrary Law-making in Today's Citizenship and Border Control Policies
A project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2012-2017
Contact: Patricia Mindus
- Exploring Citizenship
An interdisciplinary research programme funded by the Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Uppsala University, 2017–2019
Contact: Patricia Mindus
- Expressivism Generalized (ExGen)
A project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2012-2015
Contact: Folke Tersman
- Harm: The Concept and Its Relevance
A project funded by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (Riksbankens jubileumsfond), 2015–2017
Contact: Jens Johansson
- Intentionalitet och representation i medeltida kommentarer till
Aristoteles De anima
Contact: Henrik Lagerlund
- KUSKO - Kunskapssamhällen: Kommunikation och organisation 1800-2020
A project funded by Uppsala University Faculty of Humanities
Contact: Patricia Mindus
- The Lightness of Being: A Metaontological Investigation
A project funded by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (Riksbankens jubileumsfond), 2015–2018
Contact: Matti Eklund
- Nature and Norm in Medieval and Early Modern Conceptions of Modality and Agency
A project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2006-2007
Contact: Tomas Ekenberg
- Nordic Network for Wittgenstein Research
Contact: Niklas Forsberg
- The Novel and the Nature of Philosophical Argumentation: A Study of Iris Murdoch’s, Martha Nussbaum’s and Cora Diamond’s Philosophy of Literature
A project funded by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (Riksbankens jubileumsfond)
Contact: Niklas Forsberg
- Objectivism and Subjectivism Concerning Moral Obligation
A project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet)
Contact: Erik Carlson
- Perspectives on human action in Renaissance philosophical debates on freedom and determinism
A project funded by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (Riksbankens jubileumsfond)
Contact: Lorenzo Casini
- Philosophical reflections on string theory (2007-2010)
A project funded by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (Riksbankens jubileumsfond)
Contact: Lars-Göran Johansson
- Rush Rhees and Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics
A project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2015–2018
Contact: Kim Solin
- Teorier om kognition, intentionalitet och intentionellt handlande från medeltida till modern filosofi
Contact: Lilli Alanen
- Understanding Agency – Conceptions of Action, Human Nature, and Value in the Western Tradition
A research program funded by The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, 2008-2012
Contact: Tomas Ekenberg
- Varieties of Normativity
A project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2015–2018
Contact: Matti Eklund
- What Must a Swede Know?
A project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2014-2017
Contact: Sharon Rider
Last modified: 2021-03-25