I am Professor of Philosophy of Mind at the Department of Philosophy, University of Tartu. In addition, I am the Head of the Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics, the Head of the Department of Philosophy as well as the Chair of Theoretical Philosophy (all in Tartu).

Previously I was Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy (2016-19) and Senior Research Fellow of Theoretical Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics (2011-16) and the Vice Dean for Research at the Faculty of Philosophy,  University of Tartu (2013-15).

AOS: philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology
AOC: metaphysics, epistemology, 20th century analytic philosophy, metaethics

Contact:
Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics
University of Tartu
Jakobi 2
51003 Tartu
Estonia

Email: bruno.moelder”at”gmail.com

Background

I studied philosophy and psychology at the University of Tartu (BA in philosophy and BSc in psychology cum laude in 1997).

In 1997-98, I was a visiting graduate student at the University of Oxford (Merton College) and studied mainly philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychology. After this, I took an MA in philosophy from Tartu in 1999 with a thesis on theories of content.

In 1999-2000, I studied at the University of Cambridge (St John’s College) and did an MPhil in philosophy.

In 2000, I went to Germany to study at the Universität Konstanz as a visiting student. In 2001, I began my doctoral studies at Konstanz (supported by a graduate scholarship from DAAD). I passed the Dr.phil. defence in May 2007 with summa cum laude. The Rigorosum was based on theses from developmental psychology, metaethics and epistemology. My dissertation Mind Ascribed: An Elaboration and Defence of Interpretivism, as suggested by the title, defends interpretivism in the philosophy of mind.

In 2004-2005, I was a visiting researcher at the University of Aarhus in the NAMICONA (Naturalised Mind – Cognisant Nature) project.

I am a member of European Society for Analytic Philosophy, Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie and a participant at the European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences, and the Humanities.