The research conducted by this group spans the history of classical metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of science.
The focus is on the ideas about scientific knowledge and its relationship to metaphysics in the Neoplatonism of late antiquity: metaphysics, especially emanationism, and the epistemology of Arabic Neoplatonism; the medieval study of transcendentals, the broad 18th century – the time of the Enlightenment -, German Idealism and Neo-Kantianism, phenomenology and philosophy of gender.