This page is for everyone studying or interested in studying at the Department of Philosophy in the University of Tartu. We also welcome our former students and everyone else linked to the department. The Department of Philosophy in the University of Tartu is the most active center of philosophical research in the Baltics. We host a considerable number of national and international research projects which fuel a busy schedule of conferences, workshops, research seminars, summer schools and reading groups. We have a 3 year BA programme (in Estonian), two 2 year MA programmes (in English and in Estonian) and a 4 year PhD programme (in English/Estonian). In our department, teaching and research are divided up between four chairs:
• Chair of Practical Philosophy: ethics, meta-ethics, applied ethics, bioethics, aesthetics, social- and political philosophy, philosophy of education
• Chair of Theoretical Philosophy: philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of logic, philosophy of psychology, epistemology, metaphysics, metaphilosophy, experimental philosophy
• Chair of Philosophy of Science: general philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, philosophy of chemistry, philosophy of biology, social and cultural studies of science, social epistemology
• Chair of History of Philosophy: Ancient Greek philosophy, Classical German philosophy, Modern philosophy
• Chair of Intellectual History
For more information, please visit: https://filsem.ut.ee