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Unfortunately the Frege lectures that were planned to happen in June 12-13 are postponed. The new time for the lectures is October 9th-10th. More detailed info on the lectures.

On the 1st of June, 14:15 (Jakobi 2 - 336) professor Marc Hight (Hampden-Sydney College, USA) will give a presentation "Better off as Judged by Themselves: A Critical Examination of Nudge Theory." Marc was a Fulbright scholar at our philosophy department 2007/2008. Everyone is welcome! Abstract:

10th Nordic Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy takes place in Tartu on June 2-3 2017 in room Jakobi 2-336.

The venia legendi lectures of candidates for Philosophy of Language professorship will take place in Jakobi 2-336 at the following times. The lectures take place through Skype and will begin exactly on the announced time (no academic quarter). Anybody interested is welcome to participate. 19.05, at 12.00 – 13.00 Adriano Palma - The philosophy of language after the philosophy against language. 19.05, at 13.00 – 14.00 Daniel Dohrn - Some problems for the standard account of counterfactuals

Tuesday, April 18th at 19.00, Genialistide Klubi

Lectures will be on the topic „Semiotics of Intertextuality and Intermediality", 16:15 (Jakobi 2-306). Everybody is welcome!

Semiosalong is an ongoing biweekly salon style afterhours semiotic meetingplace. Session 1: Geoffroy Pavillet: Famous Trials and Lyudmyla Zaporozhtseva: Post-Truth and the Mythological Mind in Marketing Semiotics Room number 306

As a part of the workshop „Pragmatist realism: philosophy, history and science“, Professor at University of Cambridge Hasok Chang gives public lectures that take place 6th-9th March 2017 at 4:15 PM in the department of philosophy of the University of Tartu, at Jakobi street 2, room 336.

The Department of Philosophy is hiring a professor of philosophy of language. The application deadline is April 3rd 2017. The position starts at January 1st 2018, with the contract to end at December 31st 2022. The exact nature of the job, requirements for applicants and more details can be found here.

On the 29th of November there will be a small workshop on value judgment, partly connected with Francesco Orsi's research grant on "The Unity of Normative Discourse (2013-16)". Everyone is welcome to attend, including and especially students at any level. Below you can find the program and abstracts. For any further info, please write to Francesco Orsi at orsi [ät] ut.ee 29th of NovemberWorkshop on Value Judgment Jakobi 2 - room 336

It’s time for semiotics! The revolution of humanities is getting power!Every year University of Tartu arranges Vega fund competition where they select science-based business ideas to give them capital for project development. On 7th of December Vega fund jury selected four teams which got kick-off science grant to develop their projects!

That means that the applicant has to have at least 45 Academic Credits to stand for the position. Importantly, these ACs involve both study and research, and they can be transferred, taken over from other institutions, calculated out of the candidate’s professional experience or published papers. Also, those people, who already have studied at the Department’s PhD programme can apply, but for them there is an overall restriction: there has to be a 12-year period between your exmatriculation and this application.

Public Lecture by Aaron Wendland: Heidegger - For and Against National Socialism On Wednesday, 07 December 2016, 16:15 at Jakobi 2, Room 336 Aaron James Wendland is Research Fellow in Philosophy at University of Tartu. The lecture is based on Heidegger's recently published private notebooks from the 1930s. The aim of this lecture is to reassess the relation between Heidegger's extremely influential philosophy and his decision to join the Nazi Party in 1933.

It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all too soon, the very words 'justice,' 'compassion,' 'society,’ 'struggle,' 'evil,' would be unheard echoes on an empty air." (The Children of Men (2006), by PD James).

Senior Research Fellow Roomet Jakapi, lecturer Eduard Parhomenko and MA student Raul Veede will present papers at an international conference "Berkeley, Kant, and Modern Philosophical Debates" to be held from October 27 to 29 at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Department of Philosophy of the University of Tartu is a co-organiser of the event. The topic of the conference is related to the research project IUT20-5.

The Juri Lotman Fund announces its scholarship contest intended for graduate students from the University of Tartu whose research carries on the tradition of Lotman and his school in semiotics and slavic philology. In 2017, the Juri Lotman Fund will award two scholarships á 500€ to a master’s or a doctoral student in slavic philology and in semiotics and culture theory. The grantees will be disclosed on Juri Lotman’s birthday, 28 February 2017.

Paul Patton (University of New South Wales) will give a public lecture on 2 November 2016 at 16:15 in room Jakobi 2-114. The title of the talk is "Foucault on Power and Government"

Luc van Doorslaer (CETRA, Belgium), one of the leading scholars of contemporary translation studies, will visit our department next Wednesday, October 12. He will give a lecture at14.15 in room 336. The talk ‘Translation is much more than translation’ discusses the limits of the concept as a move toward semiotics. Everyone is welcome!

On Monday, August 29, at 14.15 an orientation course will take place at 14.15, Jakobi 2-306 for the master students at the department of semiotics. The course will take place both for the international and Estonian program. At 12.15, the same day, the same place, an orientation course will take place for the new bachelor students. Everybody is welcome to join.

The orientation for new Philosophy MA students takes place on Tuesday August 30th at 13:15 in room 336. During the orientation new students will have the opportunity to meet potential supervisors and get vital information concerning the new academic year and the study process in general.