To conduct research in experimental philosophy, social psychology and linguistics, particularly experimental semantics.
To create research facilities for empirical, including experimental, research conducted by staff and students of the Institute of Philosophy, including undergraduate and graduate students of philosophy and cognitive science, as well as students of bioethics.
To develop the research methods of experimental philosophy. Experimental philosophy offers a new way of seeking answers to certain philosophical questions. Its methods continue to develop and improve rapidly, and researchers increasingly move beyond questionnaires to other empirical methods.
To support the education of people interested in experimental research in social and linguistic research methodology, the experimental methods characteristic of these fields, statistical data analysis, the use of statistical software, and programming languages for statistical computation and visualising results.
To maintain and develop the research tools and skills acquired and created through experimental-philosophy grants carried out at the Institute of Philosophy in recent years, including our own platform for conducting experimental studies, the website, technical solutions and databases.