Address: Marstalu street 28/30, Rīga, LV–1050, room No. 20
Phone: +371 67288320
Chairman: Dr. phil. prof. Rihards Kūlis
E-mail: rihards.kulis@lu.lv

The research activities of the Department cover the following main areas:

• Phenomenology and its branches in the world
• Hermeneutics
• Cultural philosophy
• Semiotics
• Cultural semiotics
• Metaphorology
• Psychoanalysis, its history and connection with the Philosophy
• Philosophy as the art of living
• Ethics
• Ethics of human rights
• Philosophical anthropology
• Aesthetics
• French structuralism and post-structuralism
• German philosophy since the early Middle Ages to the present day, represented by I. Kant, J.G. Hamann, J.G. Herder, M. Heidegger, H.G. Gadamer, and G.W.F. Hegel in particular
• Kant’s modern interpretation
• K. Rahner’s philosophy and Innsbruck School
• History of ideas in Latvia
• National identity
• Ancient philosophy, represented by Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus in particular

The Department collaborates with academic institutions and organizations in Latvia and abroad: the UL Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences in Latvia University of Agriculture, Latvian Academy of Culture, Goethe Institute in Latvia, Austrian and German embassies in Riga, Tallinn University Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Culture, Philosophy and Arts Research Institute in Lithuania, Centre for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Philosophy and Education of the University of Vienna, Austrian Society for Literature, Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Philosophy Institute of the <s>Berlin</s> Technical University of Berlin, Faculty of Humanities of the University of Bergen, Philosophy seminar of the University of Tubingen, International Hamann-Colloquium, Martin Heidegger Society, University of Dublin, the Charles University in Prague, Department of Philosophy of the Maltepe University, Department of Philosophy of the National Taiwan University, World Phenomenology Institute in USA, International Federation of Philosophical Society and other.