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Today, on 26 April 2018, the 263-member electoral council elected Professor of Neurosurgery Toomas Asser as rector of the University of Tartu with 187 votes.

Introduction to Philosophy FLFI.00.113 (6 ECTS) Alexander Davies Mon 12-14 Jakobi 2-336, weeks 2-12 An introduction to a diverse handful of philosophical questions and to the argument-based approach to answering these questions that is typical of contemporary analytic philosophy. The following fields will be covered: * Ethics (two topics) * Metaphysics (two topics) * Epistemology (two topics) * Political Philosophy (two topics) * Philosophy of Mind (two topics)

August 28, 14.15-16.00, Jakobi 2-306 On August 28, 14.15-16.00 Dr Gareth Roberts (University of Pennsylvania) will give a guest seminar on experimental semiotics (Experimental semiotics: Social experiments on meaning and structure).

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On Monday June 18th Gianluigi Segalerba will give a talk entitled "Elements of Aristotle's Ontology". The talk will be in Jakobi 2, 336 at 14.15.

On Tuesday June 12th at 16:15 in room Jakobi 2-336 Eve Kitsik will defend her PhD thesis titled "Revisionary Ontology: Improving Concepts to Improve Beliefs". It was supervised by professor Daniel Cohnitz (University of Utrecht) and it is reviewed by professor Matti Eklund (Univeristy of Uppsala) and associate professor Tuomas Tahko (University of Helsinki).

Juhani Yli-Vakkuri, Professor of Philosophy of Language at the University of Tartu, and John Hawthorne, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California and formerly Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Oxford, have co-authored a book titled “Narrow Content” that has just been published by Oxford University Press.

MA thesis in Philosophy of Science May 21, Jakobi 2 - 336 12.15 Mert Salkim Contrastive Evaluation of Explanations in Studies of Scientific Knowledge Supervisor Endla Lõhkivi, reviewer Jaana Eigi MA theses in Practical Philosophy May 29, Jakobi 2 - 336 12.00 Anastasiia Babash Feminist Perspectives on Cybersex Supervisor Francesco Orsi, reviewer Kadri Simm

Call for Papers Semiotics of hybrid natures: Anthropogenic ecosystems, multimodalities, transformed umwelts 8–10.11.2018 University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia More information at the conference home page: https://www.flfi.ut.ee/en/semiotics-of-hybrid-natures Plenary speakers:

We kindly invite you to the seminar “Chapters from the History of Semiotics” that will take place on Tuesday the 22th of May at 11.15, Jakobi 2, room 438. We will have the opportunity to listen to two presentations followed by and a discussion. Professor Costantino Marmo (University of Bologna) “Definitions and classifications of signs between XII and XIII century” Professor Giovanni Manetti (University of Siena) “The debate about sign inference in Philodemus' De Signis” Moderator: Remo Gramigna

On Friday May 18th at 14:15 professor Sami Pihlström will give a guest lecture titled "Holistic Pragmatism and William James's 'Will to Believe". Lecture will take place at Jakobi 2-336. The lecture will take place instead of the regular PhD seminar.

14.15 at the Senate Hall. URL: http://dspace.ut.ee/handle/10062/59821 Supervisor: Timo Maran, PhD Opponents: Giovanni Manetti, PhD, Italy, University of Siena Constantino Marmo, PhD, Italy, University of Bologna

July 2-13 2018, Tartu

Call for Papers Semiotics of hybrid natures: Anthropogenic ecosystems, multimodalities, transformed umwelts 8–10.11.2018 University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia More information at the conference home page: https://www.flfi.ut.ee/en/semiotics-of-hybrid-natures Plenary speakers:

The film club of philosophy and semiotics students is hosting another event 24th April at 18:00, the movie will be "The Swimmer" (1968). Post-movie discussion is initiated and lead by Bryan Frances. The event takes place at Üheteistkümnes (Gildi 3-11) Event page in Facebook.

Monday May 7th at 12:00 in room Jakobi 2-336 as a part of the course The Political Philosophy of Hannah Arendt the movie "Hannah Arendt" (2012) will be screened. Watch the trailer. Everybody who is interested is welcomed to join in.

17.04 at 14:15 at room 306.

Monday April 16, 18.00 at Genialistide Klubi. Semiosalong is an ongoing biweekly salon style afterhours semiotic meetingplace. This spring, the topic is ORDER IN/FROM CHAOS: SELF-ORGANISING SYSTEMS https://www.facebook.com/events/2108816306015945/ Seminars will take place in English. Alexander Davies: "Choice Bounded by a System: UT Students and their Course-Load"

Next week, 10-12 April the department of semiotics will be visited by a well-known Latvian film scholar and semiotician Viktors Freibergs who will give four public lectures on film semiotics: Tuesday, 10 April at 14:15-15:45 Semiotics and Cinema: Elements of Film Language (How does film signify?

Monday April 2, 18.00 at Genialistide Klubi. Semiosalong is an ongoing biweekly salon style afterhours semiotic meetingplace. This spring, the topic is ORDER IN/FROM CHAOS: SELF-ORGANISING SYSTEMS https://www.facebook.com/events/427434421018719/ Seminars will take place in English. Our first presenters will be Peeter Tinits and Oleg Sobchuk.