Bulletin
of the Russian Philosophical Society
No. 2 (30) 2004 (208 p.)
We hereby announce
publication and circulation of the Bulletin of the Russian Philosophical
Society No. 2 2004 (Editor-in-Chief, Professor A. N. Chumakov;
Executive Secretary, Professor N. Z. Yaroschuk).
The opening pages of the Bulletin titled Towards the Fourth Russian Congress of
Philosophy inform of the forthcoming Congress scheduled to meet in Moscow
from 24 to 28 May 2005 to discuss Philosophy
and the Future of Civilisation. The column includes the draft program and
the list of sections, symposiums, round tables and workshops, the names of
panels’ chairs, procedure for the final program, conditions of participation
and requirements for abstracts. Further
details are available from www.philos.msu.ru/congress and www.logic.ru/~phil-soc.
In a new column Discussing
Preparations for the Congress Pr. V. N. Porus (Moscow)
presents his ideas of the forthcoming congress in an article titled The Congress of Philosophy Should Prevent
Disintegration of Russian Philosophy. The RPhS members and our readers are
invited to join the discussion.
In the column With
Authority About Dissertations Prof. G. Kh. Shingarov
(Moscow), Deputy Chair, Experts Council on Philosophy, Sociology and Cultural
Studies, the Higher Attestation Commission, is interviewed by our Bulletin’s
Executive Secretary Executive Secretary N. Z. Yaroschuk.
At our readers’ requests we introduce a special column
on The Bologna Process: Discussing the
Problem. This issue includes Globalisation
in Education: The Bologna Process by Assoc. Pr. N. N. Fedotova
(Moscow); The Bologna Process: A New Wave
of Reconstruction by Pr. V. Ya. Nechayev (Moscow) on the
round table held in the Fcaulty of Sociology, the Moscow State University; The Bologna Process, or A One-Way Road
by Pr. V. S. Diyev (Novosibirsk).
Information
from the RPhS Regional Branches and Organisations includes materials about the activities of the Nizhegorod (Nizhny
Novgorod) RPhS Branch; the International Conference on Rationality and Figment held in St. Petersburg; the Solovyov
Seminar in Ivanovo; the philosophical activities in St. Petersburg.
The Events and Comments column informs of the Fifth
Kireyevsky Readings on Optina Pustyn and
Russian Culture in Kaluga; the International Conference on Gustav Shpet and Contemporary Philosophy of
Humanities (Moscow); the Second International Conference on The Future of Synergetic in the 21st Century
in Belgorod; the Round Table on Slavic
Peoples in Conditions of Globalisation (Moscow); the conference on Higher Education for the 21st Century
(Moscow).
The column Textbooks:
The 21st Century includes The
Textbook of Philosophy and the Formation of Student’s Personality by Prs. B. V. Markov,
Yu. M. Shilkov and S. I. Dudnik
(St. Petersburg).
Philosophy
in Contemporary World is
represented by Transcendent Logic: The
Inversion of Morality by Pr. John Bryant (University of Indianapolis, USA).
The subject of this issue’s International
Cooperation Experience column is
Russo-Iranian cooperation in the field of philosophy. We publish Address to Young Russian Philosophers by
Ayatullah S. Mohammed Khamenei. The readers are informed of the recent
meetings of Russian and Iranian philosophers: the Round Table on Islamic Philosophy and the Weltanschauung of
Sadr ad-Din ash-Shirazi at the Institute of Philosophy, the Russian Academy
of Sciences; the presentation of The Wisdom of the Throne by Sadr ad-Din ash-Shirazi; a dialogue at the Embassy of the Islamic
Republic of Iran in Moscow. Russian philosophers attended the Second World Congress
on Mulla Sadra and the Transcendent
Philosophy held from 21 to 25 May 2004 in Tehran. We publish an excerpt of Ayatullah S.
Mohammed Khamenei’s speech Transcendent
Philosophy of Mulla Sadra made at the Tehran Congress; a speech delivered
by Mr. Mehdi Imanipur, Head of the Cultural Office, Embassy of the Islamic
Republic of Iran in Russia, at the above-mentioned Moscow Round Table;
Pr. A. V. Smirnov’s (Moscow) review of The Wisdom
of the Throne by Sadr ad-Din ash-Shirazi.
These publications are meant to encourage discussion of Islamic philosophy and
its problems at the forthcoming Forth Russian Congress of Philosophy.
The Global
Studies column allows our readers to acquaint themselves with the recent
meetings of the Seminar on Philosophical
and methodological Studies of Processes of Globalisation (Moscow) and the
activities of the Siberian Centre for
Global Studies (Krasnoyarsk). Further
details are available from www.globalistika.ru
The Pursuing the Subject column comes with Rationalism and
the Methodology of Science by Assoc. Pr. Mamedaliev Zakir Gurban-ogly
(Baku); The Statistical and Dynamic
Ontological Principles of Being by V. G. Sholokhov, Cand. Tech.
Sc. (Moscow); Rationality, Science and
Neomechanisticism by Pr. M. M. Prokhorov (Nizhny Novgorod).
From the
History of Russian Philosophy presents
an article by S. M. Sokolov (Ulan-Ude) On A. S. Khomyakov’s Anti-western Attitude.
The Kant and Our
Time column is given over to Assoc. Pr. A. G. Myasnikov
(Penza) and his Kant and the
Transreligious Nature of Contemporary Morality.
In Responses to
Our Publications read an article How
Worlds Are Created by D. G. Shkayev, student of the Russian
University of Peoples’ Friendship (Moscow), apropos
V. I. Pantin’s On Philosophical
Aspects of Fantasy Literature (RPhS Bulletin, 2004, No. 1).
The Problems of
Teaching Philosophy column acquaints our readers with The Results of Implementing the ‘Philosophy for Children’ Program in
Pre-University Education as presented by I. A. Kudrova (Moscow),
postgraduate student of the Institute of Philosophy, the Russian Academy of
Sciences.
Published By Way
of Discussion are Natural-artificial
Interactions in Technosphere by Ye. B. Zolotykh, Cand. Geol.-Mineral. Sc. and A. D. Korolyov,
Cand. Philos. Sc. (Moscow); Conscience
and Human Health by Assoc. Pr. K. S. Khrutskiy (Novgorod); Self-organisation in Art by I. G. Mikhailova,
Cand. Pedag. Sc. (St. Petersburg); The Emergence of Informational Society: Norms and Values of the
Intelligentsia by Assoc. Pr. V. P. Barannikov and L. F. Matronina
(Moscow); Integral World Outlook of
Contemporary Man by N. S. Fomin, Leading Research Fellow, Russian
Academy of Education (Moscow).
This issue’s Important
Talk section includes two papers: The
Value of Democracy and Democratic Values by Ass. Pr. A. S. Madatov
(Moscow) and Fichte’s Idea of ‘Unitary
Life’ and the Problem of Educational Process Control by Pr. A. V. Lukyanov
and Ye. Yu Bikmetov, Cand. Soc. Sc. (Ufa).
The Raising a
Problem column publishes The New
World Picture in the Light of Scientific and Technological Achievements of
Recent Decades by Pr. A. I. Yakovlev (Moscow) and A Theory of Epistemological Standards by
S. Yu. Piskorskaya (Krasnoyarsk).
Mentioned as Noteworthy
is information on the recently published ‘The
Philosophy Ship’: Proceedings of the 21st World Congress of Philosophy
‘Philosophy Facing Global Problems’. Papers Presented by Russian Participants (Krasnodar – Moscow, 2004) and how to acquire it; The School of Conflict Studies, the
University of St. Petersburg; the Seminar on The Philosophical Legacy of Vladimir Solovyov and Contemporary World
(Ivanovo).
Read Useful
Information about the forthcoming set of textbooks on History and Philosophy of Science from the Progress-Traditsia
Publishers.
The Papers of
the RPhS Members column includes information about latest volumes and the
address of D. N. Alekseyev, the series’ editor, titled Why Do We Need ‘Papers of the RPhS Members’?
The Feedback
column publishes review of RPhS Bulletin No. 1, 2004 by Pr. V. F. Druzhinin
(Moscow).
A new column Philosophy
in the Internet comes with a summary of Sites
of Interest by D. G. Shkayev
(Moscow).
In the New
Notions and Terms column (supervised by Pr. Mikhail Epstein, Atlanta,
USA) read about Intelnet, Co-reason, Syntellect, Paleonoic, Neurosocium,
Noocenose.
In the new column Philosophy
and Sports read Philosophical
Problems of Agonistics and Humanistics of Competition by Pr. V. I. Stolyarov
(Mowcow) and Miracles Happen by
Pr. V. F. Druzhinin (Moscow).
See also book reviews, annotations, book announcements,
information on books and journals available at the Presidium of the Russian
Philosophical Society, doctoral and candidate dissertations in philosophy
defended in the second quarter of 2004.
The Philosophers
Joke Too column is full of student jokes borrowed from Moskovskiy Universitet newspaper. Read also a jubilee humoresque by
Pr. L. N. Stolovich (Tartu, Estonia).
On the Poetic
Page read verses by Yuri Ustinov (Moscow) and Alevtina Shiryayeva (Moscow).
Published also are
letters of congratulations on jubilees, rewards, other notable events and obituaries.
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.
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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.