Research

 

Philosophy, on the one hand, tells us a lot about what we ought to do, what we should value, what is reasonable, rational, beautiful, justified, etc. That is, it specifies the norms that guide our actions and beliefs. Science and engineering, on the other hand, investigate what is the case, what mechanisms underlie complex phenomena, how we can build things on a nanoscale, etc. In other words, it provides us with a lot of facts. The Professorship for Philosophy links the norms and the facts to contribute to actions towards real-world change. In order to act, we need to know both what we ought to do and how we can do it. Therefore, we connect philosophical research into norms and scientific research into facts for practical purposes.