| title: | Normativity: a critical study of its philosophical foundations, historical sources, and forms of manifestation |
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| reg no: | SF0182561s03 |
| project type: | targeted financing |
| subject: |
6. Humanities |
| status: | accepted |
| institution: | University of Tartu |
| head of project: | Margit Sutrop |
| duration: | 01.01.2003 - 31.12.2007 |
| description: | The main task of the current project is to provide a complex study of the philosophical foundations, historical origin and ways of manifestation in thinking, science and society. It is planned to verify and analyse critically a widely shared view that such concepts as knowledge, truth, meaning, virtue, justice, good and right have a normative dimension. A still open question, to be addressed by the project, is, where does their normativity come from. The starting point of the research is a philosophical-anthropological hypothesis that the sources of normative thinking and acting are in human nature. We engage in normative thinking because we are reflective creatures who have the capacity to reflect on our beliefs and desires, and ask, what one should do and how one should live. The project has three aims: firstly, it aims to find out the historical sources of normativity, secondly, to understand the nature of normative thinking and thirdly, to analyse normativity¿s different forms of manifestation (science, morality, religion, politics, law, and art) both in history and in modern times. The current project is going to deal with normativity in three different fields: normativity of historical and contemporary thinking; normativity in science and scientific knowledge; normativity in morality, politics, religion, law, and art. |
| project group | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| no | name | institution | position | |
| 1. | Jüri Eintalu | University of Tartu | erak.dotsent | |
| 2. | Tiiu Hallap | University of Tartu | assistent 0,25 | |
| 3. | Urmas Ivask | University of Tartu | doktorant | |
| 4. | Roomet Jakapi | University of Tartu | erak.vanteadur | |
| 5. | Liili Jõgi | University of Tartu | infosekretär | |
| 6. | Marek Järvik | University of Tartu | assistent 0,5 | |
| 7. | Jaan Kangilaski | University of Tartu | toimetaja | |
| 8. | Külli Keerus | University of Tartu | assistent | |
| 9. | Piret Kuusk | Institute of Physics at University of Tartu | vanemteadur | |
| 10. | Kristjan Laasik | University of Tartu | doktorant | |
| 11. | Eero Loone | University of Tartu | emer.prof. | |
| 12. | Toomas Lott | University of Tartu | magistarnt | |
| 13. | Tõnu Luik | University of Tartu | assistent | |
| 14. | Endla Lõhkivi | University of Tartu | lektor | |
| 15. | Ülo Matjus | University of Tartu | professor | |
| 16. | Bruno Mölder | University of Tartu | doktorant | |
| 17. | Veiko Palge | University of Tartu | doktorant | |
| 18. | Eduard Parhomenko | University of Tartu | lektor 0,5 | |
| 19. | Valdar Parve | University of Tartu | dotsent | |
| 20. | Aive Pevkur | University of Tartu | assistent | |
| 21. | Kadri Simm | University of Tartu | assistent 0,25 | |
| 22. | Leonid Stolovitš | University of Tartu | emer.prof. | |
| 23. | Margit Sutrop | University of Tartu | professor | |
| 24. | Jüri Tammaru | University of Tartu | lektor | |
| 25. | Andrus Tool | University of Tartu | lektor | |
| 26. | Rein Vihalemm | University of Tartu | professor | |
| 27. | Marek Volt | University of Tartu | doktorant | |