People

Endla Lõhkivi, PhD (FL, MA, MSc), principaI Investigator of the project, associate professor of philosophy of science

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Endla is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the project, interested in the philosophical account of science called practical realism, formation of disciplines in history of science, interdisciplinary research, research cultures, organisation of research.

Ave Mets, PhD, research fellow

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Ave Mets works on various topics in philosophy of science: philosophy and history of chemistry and technology, digital technologies, philosophy of nature and (scientific) world picture. On one hand, her work is more disciplinary than her colleagues’, which gives a look from inside the knowledge horizon of one discipline, providing a contrasting backgound for the meaning of interdisciplinarity. On the other, due to the practice-based approach adopted by the whole chair of philosophy of science in Tartu, the link to interdisciplinarity of Mets’ work consists in the inherent interdisciplinarity of many topics that she studies. So, for instance, the periodic table of chemical elements – one of her prominent focusses – is itself an interdisciplinary endeavour, and world picture is influenced by many different sciences.

Edit Talpsepp, PhD, research fellow

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Edit Talpsepp is a research fellow of Philosophy of Science, her area of specialization being Philosophy of Biology. She received her PhD degree from University of Bristol, UK, by the thesis titled ‘Species, Essentialism and Evolutionary theory’. From essentialist thinking concerning biological species her focus of research has expanded to include essentialism concerning human categories. The interdisciplinary aspect in her work derives from the relationship between philosophy of cognitive science and philosophy of biology in her research concerning folk biology, and from the relationship between sociology and biology in her research concerning the socio-political implementation of biological science.

Eveli Neemre, MA, PhD student

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Jaana Eigi-Watkin, PhD, research fellow

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Jaana Eigi-Watkin is a Research Fellow in Philosophy of Science, Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics, University of Tartu. She received her PhD degree in philosophy from the University of Tartu in 2016.  She is interested in social aspects of science, widely understood.  On her own, she has published on the social aspects of scientific objectivity, epistemic and political aspects of the democratisation of science, and the role of non-scientists in science. As a part of the research group led by Dr Endla Lõhkivi, she has co-authored papers that use interviews with researchers in order to analyse qualitatively epistemic implications of work cultures in various disciplines.

Juho Lindholm, Msc, PhD student

 

Juho works as a PhD student, 3rd year. His thesis is on the primacy of philosophy of technology. He works within classical pragmatism (Peirce, Dewey) and discursive naturalism (Rouse, Määttänen) and argues against a priori philosophy at several fronts. Juho does not distinguish between philosophy of science and philosophy of technology; and considers both technical.

Katrin Velbaum, MA, junior research fellow, PhD student

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Katrin Velbaum is a doctoral student of philosophy of science who participates in the project because of the interest in the possibilities of combining philosophical analysis with empirical (qualitative) research.

Kristin Kokkov, MA, junior research fellow, PhD student

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Kristin Kokkov is a Junior Research Fellow of Philosophy of Science (until August 2020) and is currently working on her PhD thesis. Her research focuses mainly on epistemic questions in historical sciences, more specifically on evidential reasoning, inferential scaffolding, and interdisciplinarity in archaeological research.

Lilian Langsepp, MA, PhD student

 

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Lilian is a doctoral student of philosophy at the University of Tartu. Her research topics include music philosophy, more precisely music perception, as well as the practice of scientific research.

Lisa Zorzato, MA, PhD student

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Lisa Zorzato is a Ph.D candidate in Philosophy of Science at the University of Tartu (Estonia). Currently, she is working at the Philosophy Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece). Her research interest revolves around the debate between realism and antirealism in philosophy of science. She is now focussed on the questions concerning the nature of scientific explanations, specifically on the role of models and analogies in theory change and theory constructions.

Peeter Müürsepp, PhD, associate professor, Taltech

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Peeter Müürsepp is Associate Professor at Tallinn University of Technology and Chairperson of the Estonian Association of the History and Philosophy of Science. He is Corresponding Member of the International Academy of the History of Science. His main role in the project is analysing the conception of practical realism and studying the connections between philosophy and history of science and technology.

Riin Kõiv, PhD, research assistant

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Riin Kõiv is a PhD candidate in theoretical philosophy, assistant at the chair of philosophy of science. Her areas of research are Nature-nurture debate, philosophy of biology (concept of innateness, genetic causation and genetic information), social construction, philosophy of mind (theories of content and representation), the philosophy of Ludwig Feuerbach.