Research groups
We study conceptions of children and youth and ideas about how they should be educated, raised, shaped or engaged, in European and Norwegian history.
Traditionally concerned with the principles of valid inference, contemporary logic is a diverse and interdisciplinary field unified by a common core in formal logic.

How were Greek and Roman texts, images, and ideas employed in the formation of Norwegian national identity in the 19th century?

This research group studies the origins, developments and interactions of the two most persistent and influential literary genres, the novel and the epic, from antiquity to the Middle Ages, the Early Modern Period and the present.

Oslo Mind Group is a research network for people in the Oslo area that work on the philosophy of mind and related areas.

The Practical Philosophy Group is a network for research cooperation within four fields: Political and Legal Philosophy, Applied and Normative Ethics, History of Ethics and Political Philosophy, and Metaethics and Moral Psychology.

We investigate how speakers go beyond linguistically encoded meaning in communication, and how children develop this ability.

The Enlightenment was crucial in shaping modern European thought and society. What characterized the Enlightenment in Norway and the North?