Bulletin
of the Russian Philosophical Society
No. 3 (27) 2003 (236 p.)
We
hereby announce publication and circulation of the Bulletin of the Russian
Philosophical Society No. 3, 2003 (Editor-in-Chief, Professor
A. N. Chumakov; Executive Secretary, Professor
N. Z. Yaroschuk).
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In
the opening Editor’s Column Prof. A. N. Chumakov sums up the Russian
participation in the 21st World Congress of Philosophy (Istanbul,
10-17 August 2003) in his article Not for
the Form’s Sake… 152 philosophers from 38 Russian cities, Byelorussia,
Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine arrived in Istanbul on board the Philosophy Ship making
a routine travel into a major scholarly and cultural event. An important part
of this programme was presentation, both on the Congress premises and on board
the ship, of the International Encyclopedia of Global Studies published in two
versions, Russian and English, and already acclaimed as Russia’s book
No. 1 in the year 2003. Publication of materials relating to the Congress
and the Philosophy Ship will be continued. Papers presented by the Russian
participants are to be published in Krasnodar by the end of this year.
Summing-up
the 21st World Congress of Philosophy and the Philosophy Ship Project is,
understandably, this issue’s top priority column. A brief review of the
Congress activities is followed by a review of the media coverage of the
Philosophy Ship and the Russian participants’ contribution. Published here is Open Letter of the Russian Participants of
the 21st World Congress of Philosophy “Philosophy Facing World Problems
addressed to the Russian government, Russian civil servants in charge of
culture and education, all scientists and scholars of Russia and to all those
who are not indifferent to the future of Russian philosophy. The letter
expresses our anxiety and concern for the present state of philosophical
education in Russia and formulates our proposals. Following is information on
the activities of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies
(FISP), including the list of the newly elected members of its Executive Board.
The new FISP President is Prof. P.Kemp (Denmark). The next World Congress of
Philosophy is scheduled to take place in Seoul (South Korea) in 2008. We also
publish papers presented at the Congress plenary sessions: Dispute on the Past and Future of International
Law: Transition from a National to a Postnational
Constellation by Prof. Jürgen
Habermas (Germany) and Globalization, Cultural Identity and the Development of the Self by
Prof. In-Suk Cha (Korea).
The
Philosophy Ship column gives details of this historic event that symbolised the
return of the 1922 “Philosophy Ship” after eight decades of exile. The Russian
Philosophical Society charted Maria
Yermolova, a Novorossiysk-based four-deck liner, to carry 152 participants
of the World Congress of Philosophy to Istanbul and back. We publish the
programme of numerous scholarly and cultural events that took place on board
the ship and the list of participants. Further information of the Congress and
the Philosophy Ship is available at the RPhS websites www.logic.ru/~phil-soc and www.globalistika.ru.
The
extensive section of Responses and Opinions of the Participants of the Congress
and the Philosophy Ship Project consists of the address to Russian colleagues
by Prof. John Bryant (the U.S.A.) and analyses of 20 philosophers, viz.
Prof. G. V. Drach (Rostov-on-Don),
Prof. Yu. A. Rotenfeld (Lugansk, Ukraine), Prof.
B. P. Shulyndin (Nizhny Novgorod),
Prof. V. I. Krasikov (Kemerovo),
Prof. M. Ya. Saraf (Golitsyno, Moscow Region),
Prof. L. V. Surkova (Moscow), Prof. V. A. Bazhanov (Ulyanovsk),
Dr. I. I. Kondrashin (Moscow),
Prof. R. F. Abdeyev (Moscow), Prof. I. V. Vushev
(Chelyabinsk), Asct. Prof. O. T. Loiko (Tomsk),
Asct. Prof. M. E. Zhikharevich (Pskov),
Prof. N. F. Buchilo (Moscow),
Prof. V. V. Pavlovsky (Chernovtsy, Ukraine),
Asct. Prof. A. G. Pyrin (Moscow),
Prof. V. I. Kudashev (Krasnoyarsk), Student
Ye. Ye. Koveshnikova (Moscow), Asct. Prof. I. I. Ivanova
(Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan), Prof. Yu. M. Pavlov (Moscow),
Prof. L. N. Stolovich (Tartu, Estonia).
The
Poetic Impressions Section has in store poems and epigrams written in the
course or inspired by the trip to the Congress: quatrains by Nikolai
Kozhevnikov (Yakutsk), Farewell to
Istanbul and The Blue Mosque by
Vladimir Porus (Moscow), Istanbul
Limericks by Mikhail Saraf (Moscow), an epigram by Mikhail Pronin (Moscow), In the Port of Istanbul (Almost after Mayakovsky) by Alexander
Katsura (Moscow), A White Ship Has
Arrived in Istanbul by Vladimir Yakovlev (Moscow) and the Philosophy Ship
Anthem.
The
Bulletin also informs of the meeting of the participants of the World Congress
of Philosophy and the Philosophy Ship Project and other members of the Russian
Philosophical Society held in Moscow on September 23, 2003 to discuss the
two events.
The
World Philosopher’s Day column comes with information, received through the
Moscow UNESCO office, on the strategy, concept and substance of the Philosopher’s
Day, a yearly UNESCO-sponsored event that takes place every 3rd Thursday of
November. This next occasion is 20 November 2003.
A
Letter to the Editors by Prof. G. V. Drach (Rostov-on-Don),
Co-chair, the 3rd Russian Congress of Philosophy, is a response to
L. Retyunskikh’s article published in the Higher School Bulletin.
The Information from the RPhS Regional
Branches and Organisations column informs of the D. Zh. Valeyev Philosophical and Cultural Studies Readings
held recently in Ufa and the activities, including forthcoming events (till end
2003), of the RPhS Virtual Studies
Section.
The
International Cooperation Experience column is given to The Uses of Philosophy by Lotta Knutsson, member of the Swedish
Psychology and Philosophy Teachers’ Association (Stockholm, Sweden).
The
Events and Comments column informs of the proceedings of the 2nd Russian
National Congress of Sociology centred on The
Russian Society and Sociology in the 21st Century: Social Challenges and
Alternatives; the Fourth International
Smirnov Readings held at the Institute of Philosophy, the Russian Academy
of Sciences as homage to V. A. Smirnov; the International Symposium
on Truth and Falsehood: A Dialogue of
World Views held in Nizhny Novgorod; on the 25th Moscow Film Festival.
The
Global Studies column publishes Dr. Mikhail Epstein’s (the U.S.A.) paper From Multiculturalism to Transculturalism
presented to the Russian Philosophical Society on 28 May 2003.
Published
By Way of Discussion is article by Dr. S. E. Yurkov (St. Petersburg)
titled ‘Meta-normative Behaviour’ and
Cultural Essence.
The
Raising a Problem column comes with an article by
Prof. V. N. Porus (Moscow) on The Contradictions in Entrepreneurial Ethics and the Ways of Their
Solutions (to be continued).
This
issue’s Important Talk
is On Belief, Disbelief and Politics in
Russia and the U.S.A by Prof. O. V. Chistyakova
(Novorossiysk, to be
continued).
The
Noteworthy column informs of the forthcoming Russian National Conference of
Chairs of Humanities and Socioeconomic Departments (scheduled for
20-21 November 2003); of Ekonomicheskaya
Gazeta [Newspaper of Economics] calling for papers; of the Russian National
Workshop on Interdisciplinarianism in
Contemporary Science (to be held in St. Petersburg on
27-28 January 2004); of the Third International Conference on Human in Contemporary Philosophical Thought (to
take place in Volgograd on 14-17 September 2004).
The
reader is provided with Useful Information on the meeting of the Presidium of
Scientific/Methodological Council on Philosophy, the Ministry of Education; the
Third Frolov Readings (the Institute
of Philosophy, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 18 November 2003); the Second Navigation-2003 prize awarded by
the St. Petersburg Philosophical Society; the Conference on Philosophy and Science planned by Moscow
Philosophical Society for November 2003; the Third Kuzbass Philosophical Readings: Social Aggressiveness (a
Russian National-level Conference to be held in Kemerovo on 27-29 May 2004);
subscription to Filosofskie issledovaniya
[Philosophical Studies] journal; the IPPNO Conference (Radford University, Southwest Virginia, U.S.A., 26-29 May 2004).
See
also book reviews, annotations, book announcements, information on books and
journals available at the Presidium of the Russian Philosophical Society, and
on the doctoral and candidate dissertations in philosophy defended in the third
quarter of 2003.
The
Philosophers Joke Too column presents a collection of remarks on philosophers
and philosophy and excerpts from Uncle
Liu’s Short but Truthful Stories about the Glorious Board-mates of the
Philosophy Ship (from the Yekaterinburg-published almanac Discourse-Pi).
On
the Poetic Page one will find verses by Sergei Polataiko (St. Petersburg),
a translation from William Shakespeare by V. F. Druzhini (Moscow) and
a poem by Sergei Goncharuk (Moscow).
Letters
of congratulations on various occasions (jubilees, awards and other notable
events) and obituaries are also to be found.
In
the Structure of the
Russian Philosophical Society
column one will find lists of members of the RPhS Presidium and Inspection
Committee, the RPhS regional and field branches (87 and 27, respectively),
primary organisations of the Moscow Philosophical Society (49), as well as the
complete list of RPhS members (3,806 as of 1 October 2003).
Readers
are advised of the amount of membership fee for the year 2004 and the payment
procedure. Like in every other issue 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 RPhS members, including
subscription to the RPhS Bulletin. Full membership list is published yearly in
RPhS Bulletin No. 3 for the year in question. Additions to the membership
list are to be found in RPhS Bulletin No. 4.
The
Bulletin’s subscription index in the Rospechat Catalogue is 70643. Please,
email your messages addressed to the RPhS Presidium and the RPhS Bulletin
Editorial Board to chumakov@logic.ru. Our websites are www.logic.ru/~phil-soc and www.globalistika.ru. To
contact the Editors, please, call (095) 201‑24‑02.