Research Projects
On-going Projects
- Aesthetic Perception and Cognition
A project funded by the the Swedish Research Council, 2019–2021
Contact: Elisabeth Schellekens Dammann
- Affective Voluntarism and Affective Distance
A project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2023–2026
Contact: Rebecca Wallbank
- Alien Structure: Language and Reality
A project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2022–2024
Contact: Matti Eklund
- 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
- 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
- Constitutional Design and Population Design
A project funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, 2022-24
Contact: Patricia Mindus
- Engaging Vulnerability
An interdisciplinary research programme funded by the Swedish Research Council, 2015–2025
Contact at the Department of Philosophy: Sharon Rider
- Exploring the Shadowlands: Towards an Understanding of the Interaction between Fiction and Non-Fiction
A project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2022–2024
Contact: Andreas Stokke
- Extending Liberal Legitimacy: Beyond the State and the Present
A project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2022–2024
Contact: Emil Andersson
- Externalism and Rationality
A project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2022–2024
Contact: Karl Bergman
- Higher Education and Research as Objects of Study (HERO)
A collaboration between the Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology and the Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy, with financial support from the Vice-Chancellor. 2020–
Contact at the Department of Philosophy: Sharon Rider
- Joint Inquiry: A Platonic Study
A project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2022–2024
Contact: Pauliina Remes
- Knowledge, Perception and the Prospects of Criticism
A project funded by the Templeton Religion Trust
Contact: Elisabeth Schellekens Dammann
- 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
- 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
- A Simple, Systematic and Integrity-preserving Model for Values in Science
A project funded by the European Research Executive Agency, 2022–2024
Contact: Philippe Stamenkovic
- Thresholds in Ethics
A project funded by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (Riksbankens jubileumsfond), 2022–2024
Contact: Erik Carlson
- Vagueness & Ethics: Moral Vagueness in a Mind-Independent World
A project funded by Vinnova and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, 2021–2024
Contact: Miguel Dos Santos
- 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
- Civis Sum
A project funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation within the program Wallenberg Academy Fellows, 2015–2020
Contact: Patricia Mindus
- Cultural Heritage and Ethics in Peace and Conflicts
An interdisciplinary research network funded by CIRCUS, 2019–2021
Contact at the Department of Philosophy: Elisabeth Schellekens Dammann
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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: 2023-11-15