As an extension of the department's teaching and supervisory missions, research plays an important role. This feeds directly into the department's teaching, and more particularly into third-year courses and seminars.

It aims to mobilize the tools of the philosophical tradition in the service of an understanding of major contemporary issues: philosophies of existence, ecological upheavals, relationship to the future, common goods, crisis of democracy...

It is organized around two research centers:

• "Arcadie. Anthropocene, History, Utopias"
• "Centre Universitaire Notre-Dame de la Paix",

both integrated into the Institut Esphin (Espace philosophique de Namur).

Students benefit directly from research activities organized by the department, notably through the "Participation in research activities in philosophy" course, which is to be validated each of the three years of the bachelor's degree. It enables them to attend conferences, actively participate in certain seminars or work in certain courses on the work of the most contemporary great thinkers.

The completion of a doctorate in philosophy involves doctoral training, the modalities of which are set out in UNamur's doctoral regulations.