Defended MA theses (3+2)
2020
Olena Kushyna cum laude The Timeline of Mortality, supervisor Jaanus Sooväli, reviewer Siobhan Kattago
Emmi Närvänen cum laude A Non-Moral Critique of the Norm of Assumed Objectivity , supervisor Alexander Davies, reviewer Patrick Shirreff
David Eduardo Torres Alvarez cum laude Playing with Monsters: Character Operators in Natural Language, supervisors Patrick Shirreff, Juhani Yli-Vakkuri, reviewer Indrek Lõbus
Jabrayil Fatullayev cum laude The Union of Opposites in Nietzsche’s and Jung’s View, supervisor Jaanus Sooväli, reviewer Siobhan Kattago
Sariyya Abdullayeva Educating for Autonomy: Is It Just a Pipe Dream? Supervisors Margit Sutrop and Francesco Orsi, reviewer Kadri Simm
Nikolai Shurakov The Logic of Knowledge and Demonstratives , supervisors Patrick Shirreff, Juhani Yli-Vakkuri, reviewer Alexander Davies
2019
Jose Cañete Correas cum laude, "Saying Beyond Phenomenology: Levinas's Response to Derrida", supervisor Jaanus Sooväli, reviewer Siobhan Kattago
Amirhossein Kiani cum laude, "Perception, Abductive Methodology and Compositional Universalism", supervisor Juhani Yli-Vakkuri, reviewer Eve Kitsik
Ching Hei Yau cum laude, "A Classical Degree-Theoretic Treatment of the Sorites Paradox", supervisors Juhani Yli-Vakkuri, Bryan Frances, reviewer Alexander Stewart Davies
Jay Allen Zameska cum laude, "Valuing Health: Against the Ethical View", supervisor Kadri Simm, reviewer Mats Volberg
Saviour De-Graft Ametefio, "Against Epistemic Partiality in Friendship", supervisor Alexander Stewart Davies, reviewer Patrick Shirreff
Viktoriia Iugai, "The Discrepancy between Free Will and Moral Responsibility", supervisor Bruno Mölder, reviewer Uku Tooming
Arunkumar Rajavel, "On the Implausibility of Slow-Switching Arguments in Establishing Incompatibility Thesis", supervisors Bryan Frances, Juhani Yli-Vakkuri, reviewer Uku Tooming
Roland Schimanski, "Open Future in Eternalist Universe", supervisor Bruno Mölder, reviewer Bryan Frances
Wael Wehbe, "A Comparative Approach to Tax Exemption: Differences Between Hospitals and Religious Institutions", supervisor Mats Volberg, reviewer Siobhan Kattago
2018
Ayesha Rehman cum laude "Against the Narrative Self", juhendajad Vivian Puusepp ja Siobhan Kattago, reviewer Jaanus Sooväli
Sergei Sazonov cum laude "On Separation of State from Taxes ", supervisors Mats Volberg ja Helen Eenmaa-Dimitrieva, reviewer Francesco Orsi
Pille Tekku cum laude "Translations of Philosophical Texts into Estonian and Their Reception until 1944"*, supervisor Ülo Matjus, reviewer Jaanus Sooväli
Kyle Nathaneal York cum laude "A Defense of the Existence of Emotions in Birds", juhendajad Vivian Puusepp ja Francesco Orsi, reviewer Bruno Mölder
Anastasiia Babash "Feminist Perspectives on Cybersex", supervisor Francesco Orsi, reviewer Kadri Simm
Maksim Grigorev "Reversible and Irreversible Whorfian Effects as Empirical Evidence for the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis", juhendajad Bruno Mölder ja Alexander Davies, reviewer Uku Tooming
Märt Hallasoo "Neoliberalism as an Ideology Entrenching the Power of the Economic Elite"*, supervisor Mats Volberg, reviewer Helen Eenmaa-Dimitrieva
Patrick Joseph Keenan "Can Computers be Creative?", supervisor Eve Kitsik, reviewer Bruno Mölder
Aurimas Mikšys "Euthanasia as a Way of Experiencing a Good Death", supervisor Kadri Simm, reviewer Siobhan Kattago
Viktoriia Rozumna "Does an Argument for a Detached School Contain an Incoherence?", supervisor Alexander Davies, reviewer Mats Volberg
Mert Salkım "Contrastive Evaluation of Explanations in Studies of Scientific Knowledge", supervisor Endla Lõhkivi, reviewer Jaana Eigi
Luis Roberto Vera Cariño "Philosophical Alternatives to Populism", supervisor Siobhan Kattago, reviewer Mats Volberg
Pablo Miguel Veyrat Cendoya "Two Problems Surrounding the Universality of Human Rights" supervisor Siobhan Kattago, reviewer Karel Pajus
2017
Triinu Eesmaa cum laude "Demonstratives and the Audience-Control Theory", supervisor Alexander Davies, reviewer Uku Tooming
Alena Kamenshchikova cum laude "Re-Configuring the Concept of Vulnerability: Inclusion of Refugees in Biomedical Research", supervisor Kadri Simm, reviewer Margit Sutrop
Bastiaan Meinders cum laude "Unconditional Basic Income and the Epistemic Problem of Happiness", supervisor Francesco Orsi, reviewer Mats Volberg
Susan Notess cum laude "What Does It Mean to Listen to Someone? Listening as an Act of Hospitality", supervisors Siobhan Kattago, Tiina Kirss, reviewer Jaanus Sooväli
Merily Salura cum laude "Countering Destruction with Spontaneity, Redescription, and Playfulness: A Philosophical Reading of Kross", supervisors Siobhan Kattago, Tiina Kirss, reviewer Kadri Simm
Tamaz Tokhadze cum laude "Does Conciliationism Carry a Problematic Commitment to Uniqueness?", supervisor Alexander Davies, reviewer Eve Kitsik
Semyon Reshenin cum laude "Kant on Manipulation and Personal Autonomy", supervisor Eva Piirimäe, reviewer Francesco Orsi
Jeffrey Gardner "The Human Prejudice and the Problem of Sustainability", supervisor Francesco Orsi, reviewer Mats Volberg
Tarun Gidwani "Indexicals and the Character Shifting Theory", supervisor Alexander Davies, reviewer Uku Tooming
Lit Man Huang "On Personal Identity: the Epistemic Problem, Personal Pronoun Revisionism, and De Se Attitudes", supervisor Daniel Cohnitz, reviewer Bruno Mölder
Mariann Järvela "Do Professional Athletes Have Special Reasons to Behave Morally??"*, supervisor Heidy Meriste, reviewer Karel Pajus
Alvin Lim "Politics of Imagination", supervisor Siobhan Kattago, reviewer Francesco Orsi
Kyle Martin "Redefining the War on Terror", supervisor Siobhan Kattago, reviewer Tiina Kirss
Eveli Neemre "Animal Research and Objectivity", supervisor Endla Lõhkivi, reviewer Jaana Eigi
Andrés Calderoón Ramos "Denial of Coevalness as an Epistemic Injustice", supervisor Tiina Kirss, reviewer Siobhan Kattago
Raul Veede "On the Critique of Isaac Newton's Concept of Gravity, as Presented in George Berkeley's Treatise De motu"*, supervisors Roomet Jakapi and Enn Kasak, reviewer Endla Lõhkivi
Yangsen Yu "Defending Conditional Analysis of the Ability to Do Otherwise", supervisor Bruno Mölder, reviewer Eve Kitsik
2016
Indrek Lõbus cum laude “In Defence of Logical Omniscience“, supervisors Daniel Cohnitz and Luis Estrada Gonzalez, reviewer Alexander Davies
Marika Proover cum laude „The Non-Identity Problem: Accounting for Future People and Animals“, supervisor Francesco Orsi, reviewer Karel Pajus
Merike Reiljan cum laude “From Defining Empathy to Mapping Empathy“, supervisors Bruno Mölder and Vivian Bohl, reviewer Uku Tooming
Ada Tamme cum laude “Teadmine, moraal ja religioon Michel de Montaigne'i essees Apoloogia Raimond Sebond'ile“, supervisor Roomet Jakapi, reviewer Anne-Mai Helemäe
William Tuckwell cum laude “Sexual Deception and Sexual Consent: A Reply to Tom Doherty“, supervisor Alexander Davies, reviewer Francesco Orsi
Beka Jalagania “Moral and Legal Status of Animals: Why Animals Should Have Legal Rights”, supervisor Francesco Orsi, reviewer Mats Volberg
Iuliia Krisheminska „The Problem of Dirty Hands in Transitional Justice“, supervisor Kadri Simm, reviewer Siobhan Kattago
Iaroslav Petik “Psychologism and Neopsychologism in Philosophy of Logic“, supervisor Bruno Mölder, reviewer Uku Tooming
Rao Pärnpuu “Ontology Identification Problem in Computational Agents“, supervisor Daniel Cohnitz, reviewer Alexander Davies
Kertu Rajando “Erapooletu vaatleja empaatia keskne roll moraalis”, supervisor Margit Sutrop, reviewer Vivian Bohl
Sander Vaus “Cognitive Penetrability of Perception in Predictive Brains“, supervisor Daniel Cohnitz, reviewer Vivian Bohl
2015
Heidy Meriste cum laude “Can Contempt Serve as a Morally Appropriate Form of Self-Defense against the Damage Wrought by Superbia? A Critical Analysis of Macalester Bell's Account of Contempt”, supervisor Margit Sutrop, reviewer Francesco Orsi
Jakob Laulik “Richard Rorty and Hans-Georg Gadamer: Continuity or Disruption?“*, supervisor Andrus Tool, reviewer Toomas Lott
Kairit Šor “Quality Assessment in Science: A Philosophical Perspective”*, supervisors Endla Lõhkivi, Ave Mets, reviewer Jaana Eigi
2014
Madli Ross cum laude "Susan Wolf on Moral Perfection and the Good Life: A Critical Analysis", supervisor Margit Sutrop, reviewer Francesco Orsi
Henri Zeigo "Testing Intuitions about Reference: What conclusions should be drawn from the experimental data?", supervisor Daniel Cohnitz, reviewer Uku Tooming
2013
Juhan Hellerma cum laude "The Question of Wonder in the Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl"*, supervisors Ülo Matjus ja Philippe Merz, reviewer Jaanus Sooväli
Eva-Maria Maiste "The Opening of Differance in the Other in the Philosophy of Jacques Derrida"*, supervisor Eduard Parhomenko, reviewer Neeme Lopp
Jana Tamm "Martha Nussbaum's Ethical Cosmopolitanism - A Naïve Illusion or a Contemporary Ideal?"*, supervisor Eva Piirimäe, reviewer Kadri Simm
2012
Jaan Elken cum laude "An Evaluation of Theories of Reference in the Context of Disagreements in the History of Science", supervisor Daniel Cohnitz, reviewer Taavi Laanpere.
Eve Kitsik cum laude "Naïve Functional Explanations of Ideologies in Marxism: Responses to the Criticism", supervisor Paul McLaughlin, reviewer Francesco Orsi.
Margus Elings "Ethical Transparency and Antitheory: An Analysis of Bernard Williams's Critique of Ethical Theory“, supervisor Francesco Orsi, reviewer Paul McLaughlin.
Riin Kõiv "Negation of Idealism - Ludwig Feuerbach's Project of "The Philosophy of The Future""*, supervisors Eduard Parhomenko and Jüri Lipping, reviewer Jaanus Sooväli.
Karel Pajus "The Problem of Humean Skepticism in Immanuel Kant’s Moral Theory", supervisors Eduard Parhomenko and Mikael M. Karlsson, reviewer Helen Haav.
Priit Põhjala "The Possibility of Collective Responsibility", supervisor Paul McLaughlin, reviewer Külli Keerus.
2011
Taavi Laanpere cum laude "Status of Subpersonal Representation in Dennett’s Philosophy of Mind", supervisor Bruno Mölder, reviewer Daniel Cohnitz
Katrin Parbus cum laude "Translating: A Move Towards Non-metaphysical Thought by Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida"*, supervisor Eduard Parhomenko, reviewer Jaanus Sooväli
Laura Kalda "Compatibility of the Values of Liberty and National Belonging in Isaiah Berlin's Political Theory"*, supervisor Eva Piirimäe, reviewer Liisi Keedus
2010
Helen Haav cum laude "Jean-François Lyotard’s Interpretation of Immanuel Kant’s Theory of the Sublime in the Context of the Unity of the Subject"*, supervisor Eduard Parhomenko, reviewer Leo Luks
Mats Volberg cum laude "Religious Reasons as a Basis for Political Justification?", supervisor Paul McLaughlin, reviewer Kadri Simm
Hanna-Liisa Ennet "Health and Illness as Seen through a Non-Physiologistic Holistic Framework"*, supervisor Valdar Parve, reviewer Andres Soosaar
Eneli Kindsiko "The Morality of Terrorism: Does the "Wrongness" of an Act Imply Its Unjustifiability?"*, supervisors Roomet Jakapi ja Maria Mälksoo, reviewer Marek Järvik
2009
Jaana Eigi cum laude "Public Understanding of Science: a Case-Study of Rind et al. Controversy"* supervisor Endla Lõhkivi, reviewer Tiiu Hallap
Priit Pärnapuu "Inferring and Meaning"* supervisor Jaan Kivistik, reviewer Jaan Kangilaski
Henrik Sova "The Problems of Defining Causal Direction Between Transcendent Relata"* supervisor Piret Kuusk, reviewer Bruno Mölder
Kristel Toom "Dworkin and Cohen on Distributive Justice" supervisor Paul McLaughlin, reviewer Kadri Simm
2008
Karin Kustassoo cum laude "Søren Kierkegaard in Martin Heidegger's Lectures on Augustinus and Neoplatonism"* supervisor Eduard Parhomenko, reviewer Jaanus Sooväli
Janar Mihkelsaar cum laude "Agamben’s Homo Sacer and its Evaluation in the Light of Heidegger’s Thinking"* supervisor Eduard Parhomenko, reviewer Toomas Lott
Indrek Reiland cum laude "The Relevance of Moral Absolutism and the Consequences of an Error Theory" supervisors Daniel Cohnitz ja Margit Sutrop, reviewer Bruno Mölder
Roope Rotko cum laude "Michael Sandel's Communitarian Arguments against John Rawls' Theory of Justice"* supervisor Kadri Simm, reviewer Marek Järvik
Jaanus Sooväli cum laude "The Mad Instant of Decision: Kierkegaard ‑ Derrida"* supervisor Eduard Parhomenko, reviewer Märt Põder
Anne-Mai Helemäe "The Notion of National Character in the Philosophical Anthropology of Johann Gottfried Herder"* supervisor Andrus Tool, reviewer Eduard Parhomenko
Anne Kokkov "The Being of the Work of Art in Relation to its Structure"* supervisor Ülo Matjus, reviewer Eduard Parhomenko