Alejandra Mancilla
Political philosophy, ethics, environmental philosophy, history of philosophy (especially modern natural law and the Enlightenment)
Anna Smajdor
Medical ethics: abortion, euthanasia, concepts of harm and benefit in medicine, concepts of health/need/disease, any other applied aspect of medical ethics.
Bioethics: moral theory and expertise in bioethics; reproductive ethics, genetic engineering, arguments from nature in bioethics; animal ethics.
Arne Johan Vetlesen
Moral, social and political philosophy; environmental philosophy, philosophy of nature; phenomenology, hermeneutics, existentialism; post-Hegelian German philosophy; Critical Theory; moral psychology, esp. emotions; philosophy and psychiatry; philosophy and psychoanalytic theory.
Bjørn Ramberg
Pragmatism, philosophy of science, philosophy of psychology (human and animal), philosophy of psychiatry, moral psychology, philosophy of action, hermeneutics, existentialism, philosophy of literature
Caj Strandberg
Metaethics, including normative reasons and rationality; analytic aesthetics and contemporary ethics (in this order of preference)
Carsten Hansen
Principal areas of research: philosophy of perception, the metaphysics of truth and the conceptual foundations of vision science. I also have a more than passing interest in Frege's philosophy of thought.
Cathrine Holst
- Philosophy of science, especially philosophy of social science and feminist philosophy of science
- Social and political epistemology
- Contemporary political philosophy, especially theory of democracy, democratic innovations and governance, feminist political philosophy, Habermas, Rawls
Feroz Mehmood Shah
Moral philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of law, the history of philosophy (Immanuel Kant, German Idealism, the Enlightenment), phenomenology and continental philosophy.
Franco Trivigno
Ancient Philosophy, esp. Plato and Aristotle, Normative Ethics, esp. virtue ethics, Moral Psychology, esp. as such questions intersect with empirical psychology, and Philosophy and Literature.
Gry Oftedal
- Philosophy of science, esp. causal explanation, mechanisms, levels of investigation, and metaphors and models.
- Philosophy of biology/life sciences, esp. the gene concept, heritability, causation in biology, approaches in systems biology and molecular biology, and convergence.
- Philosophy of medicine, esp. nanomedicine. Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI).
Ingrid Lossius Falkum
Semantics, pragmatics, linguistic and cognitive development, lexical meaning, polysemy, figurative language, experimental pragmatics.
Ingvild Torsen
Continental philosophy (especially Heidegger and phenomenology), aesthetics, Kant and Post-Kantian philosophy, feminist philosophy and ethics.
Joey Pollock
Philosophy of language and mind (especially mental content, communication, pragmatics); epistemology (especially testimony and disagreement)
Karen Crowther-Telbis
- Philosophy of physics (esp. spacetime, quantum field theory, effective field theory, quantum gravity, cosmology)
- Philosophy of science (esp. emergence, reduction, scientific methodology, theory-change, theoretical virtues, realism, analogy, simulation and experiment)
- Metaphysics (esp. metaphysics of science, meta-metaphysics).
Mathea Slåttholm Sagdahl
Philosophy of reasons, morality and self-interest, normative ethics, feminist philosophy, LHBT+-issues, epistemic injustice, sosial construction, metaphysics of sex and gender, emotions, identity, meaningfulness, military ethics and civil-military relations.
Nicholas Hughes
I am happy to supervise students working on topics in epistemology (especially normative epistemology and social epistemology), ethics (especially normative ethics, practical ethics, and metaethics), feminist theory, and the theory of rationality.
Øystein Linnebo
Philosophies of logic and mathematics, early analytic philosophy (esp. Frege), metaphysics (esp. modality and ontology), as well as parts of the philosophy of language (esp. questions about reference and truth) and of the philosophy of science (esp. questions of realism/anti-realism, spacetime, and quantum mechanics).
Panagiotis Dimas
Ancient Philosophy, especially Empedocles, Plato. Aristotle, Atomists and Epicurus, Stoics. Metaphysics, Ethics, Moral Psychology.
Reidar Maliks
Political philosophy, philosophy of law (especially Kant), history of philosophy (especially the Enlightenment), human rights, ethics, theory and methodology in the study of history of philosophy
Salvatore Florio
Philosophy of language (especially semantics), philosophical logic, mathematical logic, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of artificial intelligence (especially knowledge representation and formal ontology)
Sebastian Watzl
Philosophy of mind (esp. consciousness, perception, mental content), philosophy of psychology and cognitive science, philosophy of neuroscience, philosophy of biology (esp. evolutionary biology, biology and cognition, etc.), as well as parts of metaphysics (e.g. identity through time; realisation, constitute, reduction), and meta-ethics.
Thomas Kjeller Johansen
Ancient philosophy, especially the Presocratics, Plato and Aristotle
Michael Barnes
Ethics (especially Applied Ethics and AI Ethics), Philosophy of Language (esp. Speech Act Theory), Social & Political Philosophy, Social Epistemology, Feminist Philosophy
Jack Wright
- Philosophy of Science (esp. demarcation of science, the social dimensions of scientific knowledge, pragmatism and the philosophy of science, objectivity in science)
- Philosophy of social science (esp. philosophy of economics, quantification, social ontology)
- Political epistemology and the political philosophy of science (esp. the roles of science and expertise in public life; the philosophy of science policy; the politics of public numbers