Supervised dissertations: Patrick Rang. BA dissertation "Ideas of self-organization in philosophy and science". Defended 2000.

Directed (as a second supervisor) also Patrick Rang's Master dissertation.

Projects: collective project "Philosophy and science" (directed and realized at the Institute of International and Social Studies 1995 - 1996); individual project "Paradigm of self-organization in exact sciences and its philosophical foundations" (realized in the Chair of Philosophy of the Tallinn University of Technology 1997 - 2000); collective project "Philosophical foundations of the non-classical science" (realized in the Chair of Philosophy of the Tallinn University of Technology 2001 - 2008). (All projects were not financed.)

Grants: three individual grants from the Estonian Science Fund, including the individual grand project no. 1814 "The relationship between man and the world in synergetic understanding of the world" (final report defended at the Institute of International and Social Studies in 1998).

Has made reports on 37 international or republican conferences (Helsinki, 2014; Manchester, 2013; Nancy, 2011; Beijing, 2005, 2007; Salzburg, 2006; Knoxville, 2005; Durham, 2004; San Francisco, 2004; Oviedo, 2003; Madrid-San Sebastian, 2000; Moscow, 1988, 1989, 1990; Kiev, 1989; Minsk, 1989, 1990; Riga, 2003, 2008; Vilnius, 2006; Tallinn, 1984, 1989, 1990, 1991, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013; Tartu, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1994, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008).

Selected international and national conference papers (1982–2014):

"A philosophical description of some features of the paradigm shift done by Ilya Prigogine". XXVI International Baltic Conference on the history of science. Helsinki, August 21-22, 2014.
"The premises and limits of science: the ideas of Rein Vihalemm". The IX Annual Estonian Philosophy Conference. Tallinn University of Technology, Chair of Philosophy. 13-14 December 2013.
"The problem of the understanding of nature in the exact science." Symposium S003-B. 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine. Manchester, 21-28 July 2013.
"On the limits of the exact science." Affiliated Symposium. 14th Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Nancy, 19-26 July 2011.
"On the unfitness of exact sciences for the understanding of nature." XXIV International Baltic Conference of History of Science. Tallinn, Estonia, 8-9 October 2010.
"Some thoughts for supporting (hu)man's self-organization." VI Estonian Annual Philosophy Conference. Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia, 15-16 May 2010.
"What is complexity?" V Estonian Annual Philosophy Conference. Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia, 23 May 2009.
"The problem of application of mathematics to the understanding of nature." XXIII International Baltic Conference on the History of Science. Riga, Latvia, 9–10 October 2008.
"Can nature be understood from the position of mathematics? Aristotle versus Plato." IV Estonian Annual Philosophy Conference. Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia, 5–7 June 2008.
"Historical considerations in present-day mathematical natural science." XIII International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Beijing, China, 9–15 August 2007.
"On limits of reason." Annual Conference of the Estonian Philosophy 2007. Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia, 15–16 June 2007.
"On the critique of Ilya Prigogine's ideas by Jean Bricmont." Science Studies Today XI. Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia, 9–10 May 2007.
"The need for the philosophy of nature in contemporary science." XXII Baltic Conference on the History of Science. Vilnius, Lithuania, 5–6 October 2006.
"Whitehead and the problem of the connection between the physical and the mathematical." VI International Whitehead Conference. Salzburg, Austria, 3–6 July 2006.
"Two approaches to systems theory: an analysis in the context of Ken Wilber's and Alfred North Whitehead's philosophical cosmologies." VI International Whitehead Conference. Salzburg, Austria, 3–6 July 2006.
"The conceptual orientation of the philosophy of chemistry." International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry. IX Summer Symposium. Knoxville, TN, USA, 7–11 August 2005.
"The problem of the understanding of nature in contemporary science." XXII International Congress of History of Science.
Beijing, China, 24–30 July 2005.
"The need for historical understanding of nature in physics and chemistry." International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry. VIII Summer Symposium. Durham, UK, 15–18 August 2004.
"Philosophical interpretation of Ilya Prigogine's theories." V Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science. San Francisco, CA, USA, 24–27 June 2004.
"Ilya Prigogine's theories and the "Two Cultures" problem." XXI International Baltic Conference on the History of Science. Riga, Latvia, 15–18 October 2003.
"The understanding of the relationship between man and nature in physics and chemistry." International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry. VII Summer Symposium. Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia, 16–20 August 2003.
"The need for co-operation between the human and physical understanding of the world." XII International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Oviedo, Spain, 7–13 August 2003.
"Can self-organizing world be understood through mathematics?" XX Baltic Conference on the History of Science. Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia, 30–31 January 2001.
"Grasping nature as a whole (on Ilya Prigogine's theoretical works)." IV International Ontology Congress. Madrid-San Sebastian, Spain, 2–7 October 2000.
"The self-organisation thinking, the need to obtain it in Estonian society." /In Estonian/ Science Studies Today IX. Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia, Spring 1994.
"The paradigm of self-organisation and the reformation of Estonian society." /In Estonian/ Science Studies Today VII. Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia, Fall 1991.
"Scientific program of I. Prigogine and social reality." /In Russian/ International Conference 'Specific Features of the Contemporary Social Picture of the World'. Moscow-Obninsk, 24–26 January 1990.
"On problems of organisation (management) and self-organisation in society." /In Estonian/ Meeting for Discussion of Problems of Social and Cultural Politics. Tallinn-Lohusalu, Estonia, Fall 1990.
"On categorical meaning of concepts of organisation and self-organisation." /In Russian/ X Over Union Conference on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Minsk, 24–26 September 1990.
"Social problems in synergetic context." /In Russian/ International Conference 'Science and Society'. Kiev, Fall 1989.
"Synergetic thinking and problems of reformation of society." /In Russian/ International Scientific Practical Conference 'Dialectics, Perestroika /Reformation/, Man'. Minsk, Fall 1989.
"The issue of order and chaos in Russian cosmism and synergetics." /In Russian/ International Conference 'Russian Cosmism and Noosphere'. The Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, Fall 1989.
"On applying the principles of synergetics for understanding social problems and for designing the strategy of their resolution." /In Estonian/ Science Studies Today VI. Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia, Fall 1989.
"Ideas of I. Prigogine and contemporary picture of the world." /In Russian/ International Conference 'Specific Features of the Contemporary Natural Scientific Picture of the World'. Moscow-Obninsk, 2–4 June 1988.
"On physical and philosophical foundations of M. Eigen's theory." /In Russian/ International Conference 'Methodological Problems of the Theory of Evolution'. Institute of Zoology and Botany of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Tartu, Estonia, Spring 1984.
"On philosophical foundations of I. Prigogine's and H. Haken's methods." /In Russian/ Science Studies Today III. Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia, Fall 1984.
"On using the terminology of Darwinism in contemporary mathematical natural science." /In Russian/ National Conference 'Issues of Contemporary Darwinism'. Institute of Zoology and Botany of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tartu, Estonia, Spring 1983.
"On similarity of synergetic way of thinking to the Aristotelian thinking." /In Russian/ International Conference 'Social Determination of Cognition'. Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia, Spring 1982.

Doctoral teaching: doctoral course "The paradigm of self-organization in modern sciences" (for doctoral students of the Tallinn University of Technology 2000 - 2013).