Margit Sutrop#
| Membership Number: | 2274 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2004 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ESTONIA |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since January 2020 Kone Research Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki
- Since 2000 Professor of Practical Philosophy, University of Tartu
- 1999 - 2001 Researcher, Department of Philosophy, University of Konstanz
- 1996 - 1997 Researcher, Department of Philosophy, University of Konstanz
- 1988 - 1991 Lecturer in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Tartu
- 1986 - 1988 Junior Researcher, Department of Philosophy, University of Tartu
Fields of Scholarship
- Ethics of new technologies
- Ethics of AI
- Bioethics
- Research ethics
- Moral and political philosophy
- Philosophy of language
- Philosophy of mind
- Philosophy of education
- Aesthetics
- Literary theory
Honours and Awards
- 2019 The University of Tartu Grand Medal
- 2013 The University of Tartu Small Medal
- 2010 Estonian State Decoration (the Order of the White Star Class IV)
- 2006 Concord Prize of the Estonian Open Foundation
- 2003 The title awarded by the Estonian Ministry of Education and Science “The Promoter of Education 2003”
- 1998 Prize of the District Constance for the best doctoral thesis “Fiction and Imagination: The Anthropological Function of Literature”
