Bulletin
of the Russian Philosophical Society
No. 3 (31) 2004 (256 p.)
We
hereby announce publication and circulation of the Bulletin of the Russian Philosophical
Society No. 3 2004 (Editor-in-Chief, Professor A. N. Chumakov;
Executive Secretary, Professor N. Z. Yaroschuk).
The Bulletin is opened with The Editor’s Column. Pr. A. N. Chumakov, co-chair of
the Fourth Russian Congress of Philosophy Organising Committee, explicates the
principles and framework of the forthcoming philosophical forum.
Further details concerning the congress to
be held in Moscow from 24 to 28 May 2005 to discuss Philosophy
and the Future of Civilisation are available from the column Towards the
Fourth Russian Congress of Philosophy. These include memberships of the Organising Committee and the Program
Committee; the new (second) version of the Congress program enumerating panels
(sections), symposiums, colloquiums, round tables, workshops and their chairs;
procedure for the final version of the program; conditions for participation
and requirements for abstracts; the relevant addresses and telephones. Readers
are referred to websites www.philos.msu.ru/congress and www.logic.ru/~phil-soc for online information.
Under the column Discussing
Preparations for the Congress read opinions and proposals of Pr. M. D. Shchelkunov (Kazan) and Pr. Streltsov (Kaluga).
The RPhS members and our readers are invited to join the discussion.
Information from the RPhS Regional Branches and Organisations includes materials about the Round Table on
Contemporary Philosophy: Modernising or Rejecting Traditions? held at the MGIMO-University; the
Conference on The Phenomenon of Amateur Philosophising in St. Petersburg; the
International Workshop on Male and Female: The Parallel Worlds (Philosophy,
Politics, Jounalism) at the
Faculty of Philosophy, St. Petersburg State University.
The Events and
Comments column informs of The Third World Congres of Phenomenology (Oxford,
15-21 August 2004); the International Conference on Fichte, Plato. Machiavelli and the Idea of
the Rule of Law in Ufa; the International Workshop on The International Communist and Leftist
Movement under Conditions of Imperialist Globalisation in Moscow;
the Russian National Conference on Life of Providential Creativity:
A. S. Khomyakov in Moscow; the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Socioethical Aspects of Success in Valdai, Novgorod Oblast; the Republican In-
and Extramural Conference on Problems of Social
Humanism: The Past and the Present. The Fourth Marxist Readings in Nizhnevartovsk; The
Twenty-Sixth Moscow Film Festival.
Under the column Textbooks:
The 21st Century read Do We Need a Textbook on Philosophy, or Once Again on the Specific
Character of Philosophical Knowledge by Pr. V. V. Mironov. The author, Dean of the Faculty of
Philosophy, Moscow State Lomonosov University, communicates his ideas
concerning contemporary philosophical literature for students.
Under the column Experience of
Philosophical Cooperation Pr. Sayyed Mohammad Khamenei,
President, Foundation of Islamic Philosophy Sadra,
answers questions about the philosophical activities in Iran, the Russo-Iranian
cooperation in the field of philosophy and the possible participation of
Iranian philosophers in the Fourth Russian Congress of Philosophy presented by
the Bulletin’s Editor-in-Chief, Pr. A. N. Chumakov.
The Global
Studies column informs of recent activities of the Seminar on Philosophical
and Methodological Studies of Processes of Globalisation (Moscow), in particular the proposed International
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Global Studies to be adapted from the
recently published Global Studies Encyclopedia with substantial expansion of
both authorship and substance (list of entries).
In the new column Society and Terrorism read our Presidium’s letter of condolence addressed to relatives of
victims of the hideous act of terrorism in Northern Ossetia. We also publish
Alexander Katsura’s poem Beslan; information on the seminar on international
terrorism held at the Institute of Philosophy, RAS (Russian Academy of
Sciences); articles ‘Sovereign’ Nation-States
as Source of Terror and the Potency of World Order by Dr. Glen T. Martin, Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies,
Redford University, President of the International Organisation Philosophers for Peace; and Human Conditions and Actions in Extreme Situations by Pr. M. M. Reshetnikov (St. Petersburg).
Under the column Discussing
Topical Philosophical Problems read Social Aggressiveness and Humanitarian
Research by Pr. V. I. Krasikov (Kemerovo) with information on The Third Kuzbass Philosophical Readings.
The column Problems of
Teaching Philosophy presents Once Again on the
Structure and Contents of the Academic Course of Philosophy by Pr. V. I. Przhilensky (Stavropol) and ‘Philosophy
for Children’ in Russia and America by Pr. L. T. Retyunskikh (Moscow).
Under the new column History and Philosophy of Science read Weltanschauung,
Epistemological and Methodological Attitudes and Scientific Discoveries of a
Researcher (On the 100th Anniversary of I. P. Pavlov’s Nobel Prize) by Pr. G. Kh. Shingarov (Moscow).
Published By Way of
Discussion are The Law of Conservation of Health in a Healthy Human by Pr. A. G. Busygin and Pr. A. L. Busygina (Samara); Compression
of Social Time by Assoc. Pr. A. G. Pyrin (Moscow); On the
Essence of the Gender and Other World Outlooks by Pr. I. I. Bulychyov (Tambov).
This issue’s Important
Talk is given by A. K. Kazmin (Moscow) on
the subject of The Philosophical Principle of the Concept of Human Evolution.
The new
section Oriental Philosophies presents Categories and Categoriology in Indian
Philosophy by V. K. Shokhin,
D. Phil. (Moscow).
Under the Standpoint column read Yu. F. Karyakin’s controversial article An Immortal (the untranslatable play on words meaning also a mortal devil – on Lenin).
In Memoriam column is dedicated to The 75th Anniversary of
Academician I. T. Frolov.
The Feedback column
publishes review of RPhS Bulletin No. 2, 2004 by Pr. V. F. Druzhinin (Moscow).
The Philosophy in
the Internet column comes with a summary of Philosophical Projects of RUNET by D. G. Shkayev (Moscow).
In the New Notions
and Terms column
(supervised by Pr. Mikhail Epstein, Atlanta, USA) read about as if
and under-.
Mentioned as Noteworthy is
information on the FISP Steering Committee’s decision on the official subject
of the Twenty-second World Congress of Philosophy (August 2008, Seoul, Republic
of Korea), viz. Philosophy Rethinking the World. Read also about new
textbooks on philosophy following Russia’s joining the Bologna Process and
about changes in the candidate examination in philosophy. We also inform of the
forthcoming Russian National Forum National Health as the Basis of Russia’s
Prosperity to be held by the League for National Health with the
support of the Russian Philosophical Society in June 2005 in Moscow.
Read Useful
Information about the Days of Petersburg Philosophy in November;
the Second Navigation Prize awarded by the St. Petersburg
Philosophical Society in 2004; on the Russian National Interdisciplinary
Conference on Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (Moscow, January 2005);
the conference on The Problem of Violence in Contemporary Society (Ivanovo,
November 2004); on the activities of the RPhS Virtual Studies Section until end of
2004.
We announce a
new column Philosophy. Labour Market: Demand and Proposals and await
advertisements from the interested agencies/persons.
This issue’s Contemporary
Foreign Journals column
informs of Alpha Omega published by Pontificio
Regina Apostolorum, Rome, Italy.
See also book reviews, annotations, book
announcements, information
on books and
journals available at
the Presidium of the Russian Philosophical Society, doctoral (12) and candidate (85) dissertations in philosophy defended in the third quarter of 2004.
The Philosophers
Joke Too column presents collections Thoughts on the Congress: By Lips of the Great by Pr. N. Z. Yaroshchuk(Moscow) and Impossible to
Invent by Pr. N. F. Buchilo (Moscow).
On the Poetic Page read letters
to the column supervisor and verses by Sergei Pitash (Simferopol), Boris Blinov (Perm), Musa Kurbanov
(Makhachkala), Alexander Katsura (Moscow), Xenia Atarova (Moscow).
Published
also are letters of congratulations on jubilees, rewards, other notable
events and obituaries.
We also inform of the structure of the Russian
Philosophical Society that includes the Presidium, the Auditing Commission, regional
branches (numbering
99), field
research branches
(numbering 31), primary organizations of the Moscow Philosophical Society (numbering 51), complete list of RPhS members as of 1 October 2004 (4441 members).
Following are requirements for RPhS membership for 2005. Like in other issues of the Bulletin it is
explained that the Russian Philosophical Society counts as its members only
those who have paid the yearly
membership fee and have been consequently included in the current year
membership list. They henceforward enjoy all the privileges of the Society
members, including subscription to the RPhS Bulletin. Full membership lists are
published yearly in RPhS Bulletin No. 3 for the year in question;
additions to the membership lists, in RPhS Bulletin No. 4.
The Bulletin’s subscription index in the Rospechat Catalogue is 79643. Please, email your messages addressed to the RPhS Presidium and
the RPhS Bulletin Editorial Board to chumakov@logic.ru.
Our Internet
website is www.logic.ru/~phil-soc.
To contact the Editors,
please, call (095) 201‑24‑02.