Ülo Kaevats

Estonian statesman, academic, and philosopher

Ülo Kaevats (29 September 1947 – 30 January 2015) was an Estonian statesman, academic and philosopher.

In 1972, he graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Chemistry of the University of Tartu with a qualification from a physicist and a research philosopher^{[clarification needed]}. Kaevats obtained a PhD from Vilnius State University in Lithuania. He served for many years (1989–1992, 1995–2000) as editor-in-chief of the Estonian Encyclopaedia, the main national work of reference; earlier, he worked as a research fellow at the Estonian and the USSR Academies of Sciences, mostly in the history of science field. Until 2011, when he became emeritus, he was professor and chair of philosophy at Tallinn University of Technology. As a scholar, Kaevats specialized in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of technology.

Between 1992 and 1995, during the beginning and re-establishment of independent Estonia, Kaevats served as Secretary of State (Riigisekretär; the most senior civil servant with Constitutional rank) of the Republic.^[1]^[2]

He died on 30 January 2015.^[3]

References

^ Clements, John (1990). Clements' encyclopedia of world governments, Volume 1. Political Research, Inc.
^ Europa Publications Limited (1994). Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, Volume 2. Europa Publications. p. 783. ISBN 978-0-946653-95-9.
^ Professor Emeritus Ülo Kaevats has died

External links

Riigisekretärid 1918–2003 (in Estonian)
Rein Vihalemm, Peeter Müürsepp, Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen In Memoriam Professor Ülo Kaevats Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 2015)