Research at Uppsala University
History of human antibiotic use written in the oral bacteria of wild brown bears
25 August 2021. An international team of researchers used historical museum collections to study the effects of huma ...
How research can encourage us to cycle instead
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Philippine ethnic group has most Denisovan DNA
13 August 2021. The Philippine ethnic group Ayta Magbukon has the highest proportion of genes from our extinct relat ...
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Here you will find all research projects at Uppsala University funded by the main Swedish funding bodies. The search feature is based on the SweCRIS database.
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Aesthetic Perception and Cognition
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Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31
The idea that aesthetics is fundamentally perceptual has long been the cornerstone of philosophical examinations of the subject. This assumption has crucial implications both for our understanding of the ...
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Art and Nature. The Early German Romantics, Schelling, and Adorno
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Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31
Research on the aesthetics of the German twentieth-century philosopher Theodor W. Adorno often focuses on the import of Kant and Hegel on his ideas concerning the relationship between art and nature. In ...
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To perform the duration of life- researching the interpretation of time in Olivier Messiaen´s organ music
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Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31
Projektet utforskar med konstnärligt gestaltande metoder tidsgestaltning i Olivier Messiaens (1908-1992) orgelverk. Fokus ligger på det för orgelinstrumentet specifika problem som uppstår av radikalt skiftande ...
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Scaling Arbitrary Law-making in Today´s Citizenship and Border Control Policies
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Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31
Disenfranchisement, i.e. being legally barred from exercising political rights, constitutes the thorn in the side of liberal democratic legitimacy as many systems lack incentives to promote rights of these ...
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Combined probabilistic and dichotomous modelling of scientific and quotidian epistemic processes
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Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2024-12-31
Probabilistic and all-or-nothing beliefs are difficult to combine in formal epistemology, since propositions with probability 1 cannot be given up with Bayesian probability revision. This project develops ...
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Con-Science and The Whole: Sara Lidman s Literary Philosophy
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Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31
The purpose of this project is to investigate the complex relation between philosophy and literature through a study of the Swedish modernist author Sara Lidman (1923-2004). At the center of the investigation ...
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Conference ""Know Your Place: Alcibiades I Revisited"?, Cambridge 20.-23.9.2018.
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Research project from 2018-06-01 to 2018-12-31
We apply funding for a conference "Know your place: Alcibiades I revisited"? to be organized in Cambridge, UK, 20.-22.-9.2018. The conference will be part of a new co-operation between RJ project Rational ...
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Contributivism - On Practices, Debates and Attitudes about grounding democratic inclusion on economic contributions
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Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31
Contributivism is the idea that economic contribution grounds political influence in the form of franchise. This project investigates institutional embodiments and political prospects of this idea in the ...
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The Origins of Political Philosophy in Ancient Greece
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Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31
When did political philosophy, in the sense of systematic inquiry into the normative foundations of society, originate? And, equally important, where? In asking about the beginnings of a phenomenon, we ...
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The Metaphysics of the Good Life: Leibniz on the Human Good, Perfection, and Happiness
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Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2017-12-31
Contemporary ethics is mainly concerned with our conduct towards, and obligations to, each other. A different approach dominated much of the history of Western philosophy, an approach focusing on what ...
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The Origins of Political Thought in Ancient Greece
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Research project from 2016-09-22 to 2016-09-24
Many things ’began’ in ancient Greece. In the case of European civilisation, it is usually held that its tradition of political thought began in Greek culture. We will meet in Uppsala to address the question ...
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Precious Time: Temporal Aspects of Well-Being
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Research project from 2019-07-01 to 2022-06-30
What is good and what is bad for an individual has traditionally been discussed in terms of what constitutes a good life. Plausibly, however, a person’s life can be can be seen as consisting of a number ...
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Epistemic Uncertainty
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Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2023-12-31
A subject is epistemically uncertain when she is uncertain about, e.g., what she knows, what she is justified in believing, or what her evidence supports. This project is a study of epistemic uncertainty ...
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Ethics and the Politics of Writing: Membership, Testimony and Representation
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Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31
Political representation is a precondition for human life in a democratic society. Today, nevertheless, a growing number of refugees, migrants and stateless persons ? and not only them ? live invisible ...
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European Citizenship: Twenty Years On
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31
År 2012 är det 20 år sedan Maastricht fördraget införde unionsmedborgarskapet som hyllats som världens första postnationella medborgarskap trots att det är ett komplement till de nationella medborgarskapen ...
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Extending Liberal Legitimacy: Beyond the State and the Present
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Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2023-12-31
According to the Liberal Principle of Legitimacy – a highly influential view among liberal political philosophers - normative political legitimacy requires justifiability to all citizens. In this project ...
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Imagination in action – the development of imagined opportunities in corporate venture units
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Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31
This project investigates how new business ventures are imagined and shaped within corporate venture units (CVUs). Whereas there is general agreement that these CVUs are exploratory spaces designed to ...
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Harm: The Concept and Its Relevance
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Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31
The present project investigates the concept of harm and its ethical significance. The focus is on three areas that have recently received a great deal of attention in the literature. The first area ...
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Power over the past and the laws of nature: implications for moral responsibility.
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Research project from 2016-07-01 to 2017-01-01
Many philosophers hold that moral responsibility presupposes the ability to act otherwise. Further, it has been convincingly argued that in a deterministic universe, agents have the ability to act otherwise ...
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Power over the past and the laws of nature: implications for moral responsibility
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Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31
Many philosophers hold that moral responsibility presupposes the ability to act otherwise. Further, in a deterministic universe, agents have the ability to act otherwise only if they have power over the ...
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The Wisdom of the Crowd: The Evidential Role of Convergence and Consensus
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Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2023-12-31
While there exists a rich philosophical literature about the epistemological significance of disagreement, agreement is a topic that has received less attention. The project seeks to fill this lacuna, ...
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The nature of evaluative discourse
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Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31
Some philosophers have maintained that values such as rightness, goodness and beauty are objective qualities, whereas others have argued that they are somehow subjective in nature. To the latter group ...
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New Frontiers of Speech: Philosophy of Language in the Information Age
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Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31
The aim of this three-year project is to revisit fundamental assumptions philosophers and linguists have made in trying to understand meaning and communication, in the light of the recent and widespread ...
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Varieties of normativity
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Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31
What is normativity? Generally speaking, the normative is that which is related to reasons and to what ought to be the case or ought to be done. Expressions like "right" and "ought" are paradigmatically ...
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Omvärdering av alla värden: Nietzsches sista filosofiska och litterära projekt av Thomas H. Brobjer
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31
Nietzsche planerade de sista fem åren av sitt verksamma liv ett magnum opus i fyra band. Av dessa blev endast det första skrivet, "Antikrist" (I min förra ansökan sökte jag publiceringsanslag för ett fädigt ...
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Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Reasons for Belief
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Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31
In the philosophical literature of the last 25 years on normative reasons for belief – i.e. considerations that count in favour of believing something – there has until recently been something close to ...
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Rational Self-Government: An Investigation of Personal Autonomy and Its Platonic Origin
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Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31
Personal autonomy is reasonably described in terms of the ability to determine one’s own thoughts and actions unaffected by external coercion. One common understanding of this is that autonomy is the unimpeded ...
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Reason in the limelight - femininity and rationality in Classical Greek Drama
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Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31
The aim of this project is to develop a new understanding of how femininity and rationality were pragmatically linked but ideologically separated in Classical Athens. The objectives are: (a) to offer a ...
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Recruitment of professor Don Kulick, The University of Chicago, to Uppsala University
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Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2024-12-31
Don Kulick has a longstanding commitment to interdisciplinary work, and is widely recognized as a superb supervisor and mentor. His documented ability to make major contributions to a number of very different ...
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Rush Rhees and Wittgenstein´s Philosophy of Mathematics
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Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31
Ludwig Wittgenstein was one of the most influential philosophers of the last century. Rush Rhees was one of the three literary executors that he appointed; Elizabeth Anscombe and G.H. von Wright were the ...
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Uppsala University’s researchers share their knowledge in public lectures. Every year, the University is visited by leading researchers and influential people from around the world. At Uppsala University, you can hear Nobel laureates, researchers, authors, politicians and many others give lectures. Here we present some of the most prominent, annually occurring lectures at Uppsala University.