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The Department’s research covers the broad area of epistemology, adopting both the transcendental perspective (cognitive structures, a priori knowledge and its subjective conditions) and the naturalist one (biological and cultural conditions of cognition). Important focal points include the issue of perception – in epistemic and aesthetic contexts alike – and the phenomenological analysis of consciousness, especially of the preliminary “attitudes” which determine experience. Apart from that, the Department addresses questions from the methodology and philosophy of science (the status of conventions in advanced scientific theories and the problem of scientific development), as well as metaphilosophy (the nature and methods of philosophy, philosophy versus other types of inquiry).