Jakobi 2, III korrus, ruumid 302-337
51005 Tartu linn,
Tartu linn, Tartumaa
EST
+372 737 5314

Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics

of the Institute: [email protected].
of the Institute (+372) 737 5314

Department of Philosophy
[email protected]

(+372) 737 5314, library (+372) 737 5413

Administrative Offices: 316-319
Institute's Library: 329
Faculty Offices: 319–326, 328
Classrooms: 336 and 337

Department of Semiotics
[email protected]
(+372) 737 5933, library (+372) 737 5413

Administrative Offices: 316-319
Thomas A. Sebeok Memorial Library: 333
Institute's Library: 329
Faculty Offices: 302–304 and 307–314
Classrooms: 305 and 306

Centre for Ethics
eetikakeskus@ut.ee
+372 737 5427
Further contacts

Centre for Semiotic Applications
[email protected]
+372 520 8185

Bruno Mölder
Bruno Mölder
Head of Institute
Dr. phil. (Philosophy)
+372 737 6619
Jakobi 2–321

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Topics of research and supervision

Philosophy of mind in general and in particular:

  • Interpretivism in philosophy of mind
  • Mental fictionalism
  • Folk psychology and scientific study of the mind
  • Experience of time and the metaphysics of time
  • Understanding other people
  • Free will 
Margot Must
Marketing and Communications Specialist 0.9 p
MA (European Studies)

Jakobi 2-319
Phone: +372 506 3686

Kadri Simm
Kadri Simm
Head of Department
PhD (Philosophy)

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Moral philosophy
  • Practical ethics, esp bioethics, medical ethics, ethical aspects of AI
  • Research ethics/integrity
  • Political philosophy, esp justice, feminist theories

Chair of History of Philosophy

Roomet Jakapi
Roomet Jakapi
Head of Chair, Associate Professor of History of Philosophy
PhD (Philosophy)
Jakobi 2–325

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Early Modern Metaphysics and Epistemology 
  • Natural Philosophy and Theology in Early Modern Britain 
  • Epistemology of Religion 
  • Religious Pluralism 
Riin Sirkel
Riin Sirkel
Associate Professor of Ancient Philosophy
PhD (Philosophy)
Jakobi 2–325

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Topics of research and supervision

Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy from metaphysics to ethics, and in particular:

  • Aristotle
  • The Stoics
  • Philosophy of the Ancient Greek Commentators (200–600 AD) – bridging Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
Gareth Hugh Paterson
Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy
MPhil (Philosophy)
Jakobi 2–325

Chair of Intellectual History

Pärtel Piirimäe
Pärtel Piirimäe
Head of Chair, Professor of Intellectual History
PhD (History)
Jakobi 2-324

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Topics of research and supervision

  • European and Estonian intellectual history
  • Early modern political thought and international thought
  • History of early modern international law
  • History of early modern natural law and moral philosophy
  • History of early modern propaganda
  • History of historiography
Meelis Friedenthal
Meelis Friedenthal
Associate Professor of Early Modern Intellectual History 0.5 p
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Jakobi 2–324

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Topics of research and supervision

  • History of European and Estonian intellectual history
  • History of theology and philosophy
  • History of universities, history of books, disputations, digital humanities
Eduard Parhomenko
Eduard Parhomenko
Junior Lecturer in History of Philosophy
MA (Philosophy)
Jakobi 2-324

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Kant and German Idealism 
  • Phenomenology 
  • Aesthetics and Phenomenological Approach to Art 
  • Estonian Intellectual History and Philosophy 
  • Soviet Philosophy 
Pille Tekku
Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy 0.5 p
MA (Philosophy)
Kaarina Rein
Editor 0.2 p
PhD (Anthropology of Religion)
Jakobi 2–324

Chair of Practical Philosophy

Kadri Simm
Kadri Simm
Head of Chair, Professor of Practical Ethics
PhD (Philosophy)
Jakobi 2–328

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Moral philosophy
  • Practical ethics, esp bioethics, medical ethics, ethical aspects of AI
  • Research ethics/integrity
  • Political philosophy, esp justice, feminist theories
Siobhan Kattago
Siobhan Kattago
Associate Professor of Political Philosophy
PhD (Sociology)
Jakobi 2–320

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Modernity and its discontents
  • History of political thought
  • Political philosophy of Hannah Arendt
  • Memory, history and tradition
  • Critical theory of the Frankfurt school
  • Political and social philosophy
  • Politics of memory
  • Representation and responsibility
Francesco Orsi
Francesco Orsi
Associate Professor of Theoretical Ethics, Programme Director for Philosophy (MA)
PhD (Philosophy)
Jakobi 2-326

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Topics of research and supervision

  •     Ethics (utilitarianism, deontology etc)
  •     Metaethics
  •     History of ethics
  •     Practical ethics
  •     Ethics and philosophy of sexuality 
  •     Philosophy of action

Chair of Theoretical Philosophy

Bruno Mölder
Bruno Mölder
Head of Chair, Professor of Philosophy of Mind
Dr. phil. (Philosophy)
+372 737 6619
Jakobi 2–321

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Topics of research and supervision

Philosophy of mind in general and in particular:

  • Interpretivism in philosophy of mind
  • Mental fictionalism
  • Folk psychology and scientific study of the mind
  • Experience of time and the metaphysics of time
  • Understanding other people
  • Free will 
Sadaf Ghaffari Zaki
Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy
MPhil (Philosophy)
Jakobi 2–321

Chair of Philosophy of Science

Endla Lõhkivi
Endla Lõhkivi
Associate Professor of Philosophy of Science
PhD (Philosophy)
Jakobi 2-323

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Empirically informed philosophy of science
  • Values in science
  • Cultures of scientific research
  • Objectivity of science
  • Disciplinary and interdisciplinary research practices 
Ave Mets
Ave Mets
Research Fellow in Philosophy of Science 0.4 p
PhD (Philosophy)
Jakobi 2–323

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Philosophy and History of Science and Technology
  • Epistemology
  • Philosophy of Law
Jaana Eigi-Watkin
Jaana Eigi-Watkin
Research Fellow in Philosophy of Science (employment contract suspended)
PhD (Philosophy)

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Social factors in science
  • Epistemic/inductive risk
  • Science in democratic society
  • Participation of non-scientists in science
  • Empirically informed philosophy of science
  • Objectivity 
Peeter Torop
Professor of Semiotics of Culture
PhD (Philology)
+372 737 6155
Jakobi 2–308

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Semiotics of culture
  • Semiotics of translation
  • Semiotics of literature
  • Cultural theories
Andreas Ventsel
Professor of Political and Sociosemiotics
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
+372 5562 9976
Jakobi 2–314

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Political semiotics
  • Semiotic analysis of online communication
  • Semiotics of culture
  • Poststructuralist discourse theory
Timo Maran
Professor of Ecosemiotics and Environmental Humanities 0.5 p
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
+372 737 6139
Jakobi 2–311

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Ecosemiotics
  • Ecocriticism
  • Mimicry
  • Estonian nature writing
Mihhail Lotman
Visiting Professor of Semiotics 0.75 p
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
+372 737 5934
Jakobi 2–307

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Topics of research and supervision

  • General and cultural semiotics
  • Semiotics of verse,
  • Rhetorics and poetics
  • Analysis of film
  • Text theory
  • Russian literature
Maarja Ojamaa
Associate Professor of Semiotics
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Jakobi 2-314

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Semiotics of digital culture
  • Semiotics of cultural education
  • Cultural autocommunication
  • Transmediality
Silvi Salupere
Lecturer in Semiotics
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
+372 737 6154
Jakobi 2-314

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Topics of research and supervision

  • History of semiotics
  • Semiotics metalanguage
  • Juri Lotman's cultural semiotics
Anti Randviir
Lecturer in Semiotics, Programme Director for Semiotics and Culture Studies
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
+372 737 5934
Jakobi 2-309

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Sociosemiotics
  • Semiotics of space
  • Subculture studies
  • Semiotic language of description
Katre Pärn
Junior Lecturer in Semiotics, Programme Director for Semiotics and Culture Studies (BA)
Jakobi 2-302

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Cultural semiotics and analysis of culture
  • Semiotics of film and media semiotics
Mari-Liis Madisson
Research Fellow in Semiotics
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Jakobi 2–313

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Semiotics of culture
  • Political semiotics
  • Media semiotics
  • Processes of identification
  • Online culture
  • Conspiracy theories
Auli Viidalepp
Research Fellow in Semiotics
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)

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Topics of research and supervision

  • technosemiotics
  • technological systems and society
  • deepfakes and synthetic media
  • science and technology studies
Nelly Mäekivi
Research Fellow in Semiotics, Programme Director for Semiotics and Culture Studies (MA)
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Jakobi 2–302

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Ecosemiotics
  • Semiotic analysis of hybrid environments
  • Zoobiology
Riin Magnus
Research Fellow in Semiotics
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Jakobi 2–302

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Urban ecosemiotics
  • Jakob von Uexküll’s biosemiotics
  • Human-non-human animal communication
  • Semiotics of alien species
Silver Rattasepp
Research Fellow in Semiotics 0.5 p, Programme Director for Semiotics
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Jakobi 2–304

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Posthumanism
  • Animal studies
  • Zoosemiotics
  • Philosophy of science
Yekaterina Lukina
Junior Research Fellow in Semiotics and Culture Studies 0.5 p
MA
Jakobi 2–304
Sebastian Andres Nabon Hernández
Junior Research Fellow in Semiotics
MA (Semiotics)
Jakobi 2–304
Eléa Jessica Pertusati
Junior Research Fellow in Semiotics
MPhil (Contemporary Philosophy)
Jakobi 2–304
Eleni Alexandri
Junior Research Fellow in Semiotics 0.5 p
MA (Semiotics)
Jakobi 2–309
Rene Kiis
Junior Research Fellow in Semiotics
MA (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
Jakobi 2-304
Nina Kozachynska
Junior Research Fellow in Semiotics
MA (Semiotics)
Jakobi 2–304
Alexandra Milyakina
Research Fellow in Semiotics (employment contract suspended)
PhD (Semiotics and Culture Studies)

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Topics of research and supervision

  • Cultural semiotics
  • Transmedia
  • Education of literature
  • Digital education

Centre for Semiotic Applications, University of Tartu

Ulla Juske
Administrative Manager (employment contract suspended)
MA (Semiotics and Culture Studies)
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Helen Hirsnik
Values Development Consultant for Schools and Kindergartens 0.5 p
Pildil on naine istumas raamaturiiuli taustal
Laura Lilles-Heinsar
Personal Assistant 0.8 p
+372 737 5413
Jakobi 2-329