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Bulletin of the Russian Philosophical
Society No. 1 (21) 2002 (200 p.) |
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We hereby announce publication and circulation of
the latest issue of the Bulletin, No. 1 (21) 2002. Editor-in-Chief,
Professor A. N. Chumakov; executive secretary, Professor
N. Z. Yaroschuk. In the Editor’s Column titled By Means of Quantity Towards New Quality the Editor-in-Chief
addresses his colleagues with an analysis of the Philosophical Society’s
current activities and immediate objectives. The jubilee speech of the RPhS
Vice President Pr. V. A. Lektorsky The Russian Philosophical Community and Contemporary Western
Philosophy will be found under the heading of Thirty Years of the RPhS. The permanent column Towards the 3rd Russian
Congress of Philosophy (to be held on 16‑20 September 2002 in
Rostov-on-Don on the theme of Rationalism
and Culture on the Eve of the 3rd Millennium) informs the would-be
participants of the relevant conditions and requirements. Another permanent
column, The XXI World Congress of Philosophy (to be held on 10‑17
August 2003 in The column Jubilee of the Faculty of Philosophy
(Towards the 60th Anniversary of Re-opening the Philosophical Faculty in the
Moscow State University) tells about the faculty’s history and the jubilee
festivities and summarises Dean V. V. Mironov’s address Culture in the Space of Global Communications
delivered at the jubilee international conference. Information from the RPhS Regional Branches and
Organisations includes materials about the Conference on The Russian Silver-Age Philosopher’s World (Saratov); the Seminar
commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Section of Theory and Methodology of Creative Work (Ufa); the Permanent
Seminar on V. Solovyov’s
Philosophic Legacy and the Contemporary World in Ivanovo; the Russian
National Conference on Evanescent and
Eternal: Human Ecology in the Contemporary World (Veliky Novgorod). This
issue’s column on Activities of the RPhS Branches in 2001 is given to Accounts by N. Z. Yaroschuk of the Civic
Forum held in the Kremlin on 21‑22 November 2001 and by
A. N. Shishkin of the Civic Forum held in the Lomonosov (Moscow
State) University on 12 March 2002 are published under the heading of
Power and Society. The column on Globalistics informs of the Permanent
Seminar on Philosophical and
Methodological Studies of Globalisation attached to the Presidium of the
RPhS. Under a new heading Free Speech Club one will find
information about the Club’s latest session that dealt with Russia as a Historiosophic Problem. Discussion of Topical Issues continues with
M. I. Sterenberg’s Should We
Introduce Theology into Our Universities? Responses to Our Publications include Overcome the Fear of the Irrational by
V. M. Pivoev (Petrozavodsk); How
to Distinguish Between Hegel and Bebel, or Once More About the Textbook of
Philosophy by S. B. Borodavkin (St. Petersburg /
Tikhvin); I Believe and I Know by
T. V. Prokofieva; Will There
Be a Philosophy in Russia? by V. D. Ruta. The column Philosophy in the Contemporary World
publishes Pr. A. Olson and Dr. I. Tuuli’s account of the
International Philosophical Conference on Paideia
for the 21st Century held in Those fond of Polemics will find Shall We Add ‘A Human Dimension’ to Our
List of National Image Indices? by T. S. Skorodum; and Response to My Russian Opponents (Apropos
V. V. Pavlovsky’s and G. N. Gumnitsky’s Articles) by
M. Sergeyev ( By Way of Discussion publishes Critical Comments on the Laws of Dialectics by
T. P. Lolayev (Vladikavkaz) and The
Philosophy of Technology by A. G. Voitov. The Fortunes of Philosophy are the subject of
Pr. N. S. Rozov’s (Novosibirsk) contemplation titled From What Beginnings Do We Begin (On the
Focal Point of Intellectual Attention and the Opposing Standpoints in Russian
Early 21st-century Philosophy). This issue’s Important Talk is given by
Pr. A. V. Ivanov ( N. A. Golubeva ( Events and Comments inform of the First Readings in
Memory of Academician I. T. Frolov on Life and Understanding; the International Workshop on Realisation of the Concept of
Noösphere in the 21st Century: Russia’s Mission in the Contemporary
World; the 15th Philosophical Readings given jointly by the Department of
Philosophy, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the RPhS; the regular
meeting of philosophers with teachers and principals of educational
institutions of Podolsk (Moscow Region); the Regional Inter-Institutional
Conference on The Emerging
Informational Society in Russia: Philosophical, Political and Sociocultural
Aspects hosted by the Moscow Institute of Radioelectronics and
Automatics; the Eighth Panslavic Congress; the Round Table on Elites and Morals at the Moscow
Institute of International Relations. Mentioned as Noteworthy are the 2nd issue of Papers by the RPhS Members; the
forthcoming International Conference on Alternatives
of Globalisation: Russia’s Human, Scientific and Technological Potential
(Moscow); the forthcoming International Symposium on N. D. Kondratiev’s Scientific Legacy in the Context of
Russian and International Socioeconomic Thinking commemorating the 110th
anniversary of N. D. Kondratiev; the forthcoming 2nd
Inter-University Conference on The
Emerging Informational Society in Russia: Philosophical, Political and
Sociocultural Aspects; the forthcoming Workshop on A. F. Losev and Topical Problems of Contemporary Social
Sciences and Humanities (Krasnodar); the forthcoming discussion at the
Faculty of Philosophy, the Moscow State University, of the textbook on Fundamentals of the Science of Religions
edited by Pr. I. N. Yablokov; the forthcoming 16th Yearly
Workshop on Contemporary Philosophy of
Science: The Present State and the Prospects for Development to be hosted
by the Department of Philosophy, the Russian Academy of Sciences; the
forthcoming International Congress on Preservation
of the Terrestrial Civilisation (the Russian Academy of Sciences);
activities of the RPhS section of Philosophy
of the Art of Movement. The reader will find Useful Information on the new
edition of the Encyclopaedic Dictionary Philosophers
of Russia of the 19th and 20th Centuries: Biographies, Ideas, Works; the
forthcoming 4th Scientific Conference From
the History of Nature to the History of Society and the Future of Humankind;
the forthcong 2nd Kuzbass Philosophical Readings on Images of Tolerant Intercourse; the forthcoming Interdisciplinary
Seminars on Intellectual Networks and
Schools of Thoughts: The Possibilities and Limitations of the Sociology of
Philosophy (Novosibirsk – Moscow – St. Petersburg); the forthcoming
4th Ukrainian National Scientific-Methodological Conference on The Philosophical, Cultural and Religious
Aspects of Understanding the Contemporary World and Their Scientific and
Methodological Importance (Zaporozhie); the admission for the second
higher education to the State University of Humanities based on the
institutes of social sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences; the RPhS
section of Wissenschaftslehre etc. Under the heading of Pursuing the Subject one will
find articles on ‘Freedom of Speech’
and What Stands Behind It by I. I. Kondrashin and In And Out of Shot by
Pr. V. S. Korobeinikov. The new column The Rational and the Irrational
continues with Pr. V. F. Druzhinin’s final article on the
problem in question, followed by Pr. L. V. Maximov’s (Ivanovo)
The Irrational As an Essential Human
Quality of a Human Being. The Young Philosopher’s Page is given to
Ye. S. Chistova, a postgraduate of Ivanovo, and her article On the Meaning of the Rational and the
Irrational. Another new column On the Candidate Examinations in
Philosophy presents a controversial article by
Pr. I. S. Timofeyev on The
Didactic Aspect of the Interrelations Between Philosophy and History of
Science: The Past and the Present. We open one more regular column From Philosophical
Archives. Published here are materials on modernisation of Orthodoxy
under Socialism by Pr. P. K. Kurochkin, former Director of the
Institute of Scientific Atheism attached to the CPSU Central Committee. Among other materials are book reviews, annotations,
book announcements information about the new almanac Discourse-Pi (Yekaterinburg) and the British philosophical
journal Analysis, of the doctoral
and candidate dissertations in philosophy defended in the first quarter of
2002. The Philosophers Joke Too column goes on with new
humorous miniatures of philosophical implications. On the Poetic Page one will find verses by Letters of congratulations on various occasions and
obituaries are also to be found. Published also are Supplement to the RPhS Structure
and Additions to the RPhS Membership List. In 2001 the latter included 2,882
names. As usual, the Bulletin states that the Russian
Philosophical Society counts as its members only those who have paid the
yearly membership fee and been included in the current year membership list.
They henceforward enjoy all the privileges of the RPhS 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
mebership lists, in RPhS Bulletin No. 4. The Bulletin’s subscription index in the Rospechat
Catalogue is 70643. The RPhS Presidium and the RPhS Bulletin Editorial Board
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