Roomet Jakapi - Department of Philosophy

I have worked at the Depatment of Philosophy at the University of Tartu since 2003. Currently I'm the Head of the Chair of History of Philosophy. My PhD dissertation was on the philosophy of George Berkeley.

My areas of research are Early Modern Philosophy and contemporary analytic Philosophy of Religion.

I teach courses in the history of European ideas, history of international thought, history of natural law and the history of Estonian political and social thought

I have published a number of newspaper articles on problems facing higher education and given several radio talks on Philosophy.

Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies (CEES) project (SHVHV16145T, 2016-2023, PI Mare Kõiva). The Centre brings together 15 research groups with more than 60 researchers in addition to more than 50 post-graduate students from the Estonian Literary Museum, the University of Tartu (from the sphere of the humanities and arts as well as from the natural and exact sciences), the Institute of the Estonian Language, Tallinn University, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, and the Institute of Cybernetics at the Tallinn University of Technology. The Centre studies the linguistic and cultural dimensions of Estonia and Estonian identity, both from a historical and contemporary perspective.

“Plantinga, Schellenberg, and Mental Images at the Heart of Faith,” in Dahl, E., Henriksen, J.-O., Mjaaland, M. T. (eds.), Imagination in Religion: Perspectives from the Philosophy of Religion, Münster: LIT Verlag, 2021, 97−110.

“Early Modern Natural Philosophy Allied with Revealed Religion: Boyle and Whiston,” in Fuller, M., Evers, D., Runehov, A., Sæther, K-W., Michollet, B. (eds.), Issues in Science and Theology: Nature – And Beyond. Transcendence and Immanence in Science and Religion, Springer, 2020, 233−243.

“Berkeley's Theory of Meaning in Alciphron VII,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 17, 1, 2009, 99-118 (co-authored with Kenneth Williford).

I'm a board member of the Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion and a member of the International Berkeley Society.