Topic: research

On March 3 at 16:15, at Delta building, room 1008 (Narva mnt 18), Dr. Nikhil Mahant will deliver a talk titled “Two Dogmas of AI Doomsayers”. The lecture can also be followed live via Zoom. Dr. Nikhil Mahant is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at Uppsala University and is currently a resident at Susimetsa Philosophicum.

On 2 December at 14:15, Urte Laukaityte (UC Berkeley) will give a talk titled "Symptom Perception as Inference: The Scope of Functional Neurological Disorder" in Jakobi 2-336. Urte is completing her doctoral dissertation on the philosophy of psychiatry at UC Berkeley and is currently Prof. Dr. Theda Rehbock’s Philosophy Resident at Susimetsa Philosophicum. 

Grant Office invites university researchers to the first info day on research funding at the university library on 12 February 2025.

We invite you to a public seminar titled “Ethics of AI: a hindrance of innovation or an engine of good research?“ on 28 November at 10:00 in the UT Delta Study Building room 1006.

On 5 September, one of the world’s leading moral philosophers, Professor Jeff McMahan from the University of Oxford, will give a public lecture on the ethics of killing and just war theory. His lecture marks the publication of a special issue of a philosophy journal focused on the Russia-Ukraine war. The event will be held from 16:00 to 18:00 in White Hall at the University of Tartu Museum.

XV International Tartu Semiotics Summer School titled “Learning in Transformation” takes place from August 28 to 31 in Viljandi, Estonia. The focus of the summer school revolves around themes related to learning, teaching, and schools (not least including the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics). Registration is open until July 1st.

Conference of the European Philosophical Association for the Study of Emotions will bring together top philosophers from Estonia and around the world to discuss the topic of emotions.

The University of Tartu Centre for Ethics invites researchers who come into contact with personal data in their research to familiarise themselves with the Guide for data protection in research.

University of Tartu Centre for Ethics invites everyone to a pre-conference workshop, which explores the nature of emotions.

The Centre for Ethics and the Centre for Applied Social Sciences of the University of Tartu, in cooperation with Estonian Research Council, invite scientists to participate in a survey.