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470Supervision and Early Career Work Experiences of Estonian Humanities Researchers under the Conditions of Project-based FundingHigher Education Policy 27 (4). 2014.We analyze a series of interviews with Estonian humanities researchers to explore topics related to the beginning of academic careers and the relationships with supervisors and mentors. We show how researchers strive to have meaningful relationships and produce what they consider quality research in the conditions of a system that is very strongly oriented towards internationalization and project-based funding, where their efforts are compromised by a lack of policies helping them establish a st…Read more
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Practical realist philosophy of science: reflecting on Rein Vihalemm's ideas (edited book)Lexington Books. 2024.Rein Vihalemm's philosophy of science left two prominent philosophical legacies: a methodological distinction of scientific disciplines and the practical realist philosophy of science. The diverse perspectives in this book explore some of the ideas that have sprung from Vihalemm's philosophy of science, and the applications of these approaches.
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4ForewordActa Baltica Historiae Et Philosophiae Scientiarum 12 (1): 3-5. 2024.The current issue, titled The Philosophical Legacy of Rein Vihalemm: Reflections and Expansions, is a sequel to previous publications that have paid tribute to the work and legacy of Rein Vihalemm (1938–2015), all supported by the Estonian Research Council (grant PRG462). In 2019, Vihalemm’s 1981 philosophically informed history of chemistry was translated from Estonian and published as a special summer issue of Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum (Vihalemm, 2019).
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11How interdisciplinary researchers see themselves: plurality of understandings of interdisciplinarity within a field and why it mattersEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Science 14 (1): 1-24. 2024.It is widely acknowledged that interdisciplinarity (ID) is very diverse. Our contribution is a demonstration that considerable diversity exists also on the level of understandings of ID that researchers working in the same ID field express. Specifically, we analyse qualitatively, building on the method of culture contrast, six interviews with researchers working in computational linguistics and language technology in Estonia. We identify six understandings of ID expressed by the interviewees: ce…Read more
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339Epistemic Injustice in Research Evaluation: A Cultural Analysis of the Humanities and Physics in EstoniaStudia Philosophica Estonica 5 (2): 108-132. 2012.This paper explores the issue of epistemic injustice in research evaluation. Through an analysis of the disciplinary cultures of physics and humanities, we attempt to identify some aims and values specific to the disciplinary areas. We suggest that credibility is at stake when the cultural values and goals of a discipline contradict those presupposed by official evaluation standards. Disciplines that are better aligned with the epistemic assumptions of evaluation standards appear to produce more…Read more
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329Supervision, Mentorship and Peer Networks: How Estonian Early Career Researchers Get (or Fail to Get) SupportRT. A Journal on Research Policy and Evaluation 6 (1): 01-16. 2018.The paper analyses issues related to supervision and support of early career researchers in Estonian academia. We use nine focus groups interviews conducted in 2015 with representatives of social sciences in order to identify early career researchers’ needs with respect to support, frustrations they may experience, and resources they may have for addressing them. Our crucial contribution is the identification of wider support networks of peers and colleagues that may compensate, partially or eve…Read more
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164Herman Boerhaave—Communis Europae PraeceptorIn Rein Vihalemm (ed.), Estonian studies in the history and philosophy of science, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 139--150. 2001.
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259The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: A Philosophical PerspectiveDissertation, The University of Tartu. 2002.
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240Guest Editorial: Philosophy of Science in Practice and Practical RealismStudia Philosophica Estonica 5 (2): 1-6. 2012.