Teaching & Supervision

Courses Taught at University of Tartu

Postgraduate

FLFI.01.115 Seminar:  "Philosophical Perspectives on Religious Beliefs" (for MA and advanced BA students) Spring 2020, Fall 2021, 2023.

FLFI.01.111 Seminar:  “Introduction to History of Philosophy” (for MA Students) (with Prof Pärtel Piirimäe, Dr Toomas Lott and Henri Otsing) Fall 2019, Spring 2021, 2022, 2023.

FLFI.00.116 “Research Seminar” (for MA Students) (with Prof Francesco Orsi, Prof Endla Lõhkivi and Prof Bryan Frances) Fall 2019.

FLFI.00.016 “Doctoral Seminar” Spring 2010, Fall 2010, 2011, Spring 2012, 2018, 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2022.

FLFI.00.081, FLFI.00.098 “MA Seminar” Spring 2013, Fall 2015, 2016, Spring 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023.

FLFI.01.109 Seminar: "Body and Soul in Early Modern British Philosophy" (for MA and advanced BA students) Fall 2018.

FLFI.01.106 Seminar: “Early Modern Conceptions of the Soul and Immortality” (for MA and advanced BA students) Fall 2017.

FLFI.01.077 Seminar: “History of Philosophy I: From Ancient Greek Philosophy to Early Modern Philosophy” (for MA Students) Fall 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013.

FLFI.00.017 “Readings in Philosophy” (for PhD Students) 2010-

FLFI.02.083, FLFI 02.084 Seminar: “Problems of Ethics” (for PhD Students) Spring 2004, Fall 2004.

Undergraduate

FLFI.00.001 Lecture Course: “Introduction to Philosophy” (with Prof Bruno Mölder, Dr Marek Volt and Dr Uku Tooming) Spring 2008-

FLFI.00.108 "Development Seminar" Spring 2019.

FLFI.00.106 Seminar: “Introduction to Philosophy Studies” Fall 2017.

FLFI.04.042 Seminar: “Consciousness and Death: Early Modern and Contemporary Ideas” (with Prof Bruno Mölder) Spring 2014, 2016.

FLFI.00.024 Seminar: “Immaterialism” Spring 2008.

FLFI.00.032 “Graduation Seminar” Fall 2007, Fall 2022, 2023.

FLFI.00.022 Seminar: “John Locke, Two Treatises of Government” Spring 2007.

FLFI.01.054 Seminar: “The Origins and Emergence of Metaphysics” Spring 2006.

FLFI.00.050 Seminar: “George Berkeley’s Metaphysics in Focus and Context” Fall 2005.

FLFI 02.093 Seminar: “Conceptions of Moral Language in Early Modern and Contemporary British Philosophy” Fall 2004.

FLFI.02.082 Seminar: “Foundations of John Locke’s Moral Philosophy” Fall 2003.

Course Taught at Tallinn University of Technology

HHF 3070, HHF 3060 Introductory Lecture Course: “Filosoofia” 2002-2007.

Course Taught at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland

Seminar: “Early Modern Conceptions of the Soul and Immortality" Fall 2014.

Workshops Given

P2TP.TK.099 Practical Philosophy, “The Philosophy of Religion: Can One Be a Believer without Believing?," University of Tartu, 6 January 2024.

SA6130 "Hombla kjurr" (with Prof Hannes Praks, Maarja Nuut and Ramo Teder), Estonian Academy of Arts, Fall 2015.

Theses Under Supervision at University of Tartu

Currently no theses under supervision.

Theses Supervised at University of Tartu

PhD

Tarmo Tirol, Subjectivity in Jean-Paul Sartre’s Existentialism (Co-Supervisor Dr Jaanus Sooväli) 2017. 

Toomas Lott, Plato on Belief (doxa). Theaetetus 184B-187A (Co-Supervisor Prof Ülo Matjus) 2012.

MA

Anurag Hooda, “Beyond Religious Pluralism and Exclusivism” 2022.

Ove Averin, “Denial of the Immaterial Substance in Early 18th Century Post-Lockean Thought: The Cases of Dr. Coward and Mr. Collins”  2021.

Raul Veede, “On the Critique of Isaac Newton’s Concept of Gravity, as Presented in George Berkeley’s Treatise De motu” (Co-Supervisor Prof Enn Kasak) 2017.

Ada Tamme, “Knowledge, Morality and Religion in Michel de Montaigne's Apology for Raimond Sebond” 2016.

Eneli Kindsiko, “The Morality of Terrorism: Does the "Wrongness" of an Act Imply its Unjustifiability?” (Co-Supervisor Dr Maria Mälksoo) 2010.

BA

Markus Nahkur, “George Berkeley’s Immaterialism and the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Physics” (Co-Supervisor Prof Piret Kuusk) 2023.

Riho Majas, “On the Possibility of a Supremely Good God: Some Counter-Arguments to the Problem of Evil” 2020.

Ove Averin, “Henry More and the Journey of the Soul Through Different Types of Bodies” 2019.

Tiina Suur, “Atheism in Thomas Hobbes's Philosophy” 2018.

Märt Hallasoo, “Kropotkin’s Approach to the Development of the Modern State and to Human Society Before the State” (Co-Supervisor Prof Kadri Simm) 2016.

Heidi Koolmeister, “Liberalism versus Political Paternalism: John Locke's Critique on Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha” (Co-Supervisor Prof Antonino Rotolo, University of Bologna) 2012.

Raul Veede, “On the Manifestation of Isaac Newton’s Views in the Field of Philosophy of Science in his Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended” 2011.

Kärt Pettai, “Mind as Substance in George Berkeley’s Philosophy” 2010.

Kristi Lõhmus, “Ethnocentrism and Anthropocentrism in John Locke’s Theory of Property” 2009.

Kalle Keskrand, “Inconsistencies in John Locke’s Theory of Property” 2008.

Eneli Kindsiko, “How Does Justified Acquisition Take Place in the State of Nature: John Locke on Property and Related Issues” 2008.

Mari-Liisa Parder, “John Locke’s Notion of the State of Nature and John Rawls’s Conception of the Original Position:  A Comparative Analysis based on the Two Treatises of Government and A Theory of Justice” 2008.

Triin Raadik, “Thomas Hobbes and John Locke on the State of Nature and the State of War” 2008.

Airi Vitsut, “J. S. Mill’s Conception of Liberty and the Role of Religion in Society” 2008.

MA Thesis Supervised at Estonian Academy of Arts

Lilli Tölp,  “A Journey Along the Peripheries of Linguistics" (Co-Supervisor Prof Marju Kõivupuu) 2015.

Diploma Work Supervised at Tartu Art College

Aive Kalmus, music video  “Kautea” (Co-Supervisor Andrus Triisberg) 2008.