Bulletin
of the Russian Philosophical Society
No. 4 (32) 2004 (256 p.)
We hereby announce publication
and circulation of the Bulletin of the
Russian Philosophical Society No. 4 2004 (Editor-in-Chief, Professor A. N. Chumakov;
Executive Secretary, Professor N. Z. Yaroschuk).
We open the Bulletin with The
Editor’s Column containing New Year congratulations, a summary of
the RPhS activities in 2004 and listing our best branches and 94 persons
awarded the RPhS Presidium’s Diplomas of Honour.
Information concerning the congress to be held in Moscow
from 24 to 28 May 2005 to discuss Philosophy and the Future
of Civilisation is available from the column Towards the Fourth Russian Congress of Philosophy.
These include memberships of the Organising Committee and the Program
Committee; the overall regulations and the Congress program enumerating panels
(sections), symposiums, colloquiums, round tables, workshops and their chairs;
conditions for participation and requirements for abstracts; the relevant
addresses and telephones. Please, refer to www.philos.msu.ru/congress for
online information. To contact us, write to congress@philos.msu.ru.
Under the column Discussing Preparations
for the Congress read opinions and proposals of Pr. N. S. Rybakov
(Pskov), Pr. V. I. Kholodny (Moscow), G. N. Mezentsev
(Moscow). The RPhS members and our readers are invited to join the discussion.
Information from the RPhS Regional
Branches and Organisations includes materials about the
International Conference on Russia and the East. The
Phenomenon of Consciousness: An Integral Outlook (Astrakhan); the Third International
Conference on Man in Contemporary Philosophical
Doctrines (Volgograd); the Third Russian
Nation-wide Askin Readings (Saratov); the conference on National Concepts of Socialism and the Fate of Russia
(Moscow) commemorating S. N. Bulgakov; philosophical seminar on Theoretical Aspects of the Spiritual and Practical Mastering
of Reality (St. Petersburg); the activities of the RPhS Saratov
branch; the methodological seminar on Synergetic
and Contemporary Social Processes (Maikop).
The Section on the UNESCO Philosophy Day
includes the address by Mr. Philippe Queau, Director, UNESCO Moscow Bureau;
information on the relevant symposium held at the Institute of Philosophy, Moscow;
the Philosophy Day activities in Daghestan and the Kazan State University.
The Events and Comments column informs of the Philosophical Fireside
New Year Party given by the RPhS Presidium; the visit of Mr. Ugo Chaves,
President of Venezuela, to the Institute of Philosophy and his three-hour-long
address on Multi-polar World as a Global
Alternative: The View of Venezuela; the newly opened Losev’s House in
Moscow; the Russian Nation-wide workshop on Globalisation
and Regional Culture: Methodological Problems of Study; the Eighth Philosophical
Summer School (Novosibirsk); the Second International Congress of
Conflict Specialists (St. Petersburg); the conference on Post-non-classical Weltanschauung: Cognitive and
Communicative Strategies in the Space of Polyontological Reality held
by the Virtual Studies Section
(Moscow).
The Problems of Teaching Philosophy column includes the draft Bachelors’
Mandatory Minimal Requirements for Philosophy; articles Higher
School Philosophy Should Contribute to Education by Pr. L. A. Bessonova (Kazan) and On
Variability of Teaching Philosophy by
Prs. E. V. Zolotukhina-Abolina and V. E. Zolotukhin (Rostov-on-Don).
The Textbooks of the 21st Century column comes
with Maieutics and Spiritualisation (or
What Kind of Textbooks Should There Be) by Pr. N. V. Omelchenko
(Volgograd).
A new section Philosophical
Life in Near-Abroad informs of the
International Conference on Philosophy
of Nature and Practical Philosophy and the
activities of its section on Synergetic
Bridge between Philosophy of Nature and Practical Philosophy (Kiev); the workshop on Problems of Teaching Logic and Logical Disciplines (Kiev); the Twentieth Jubilee International
Readings on Great Reformers of Natural
Science: Zhores Alferov (Minsk).
In Experience
of Philosophical Cooperation column read a
review of the Chinese
Works on the Soviet and Recent Russian Philosophy by Zhao Yan, a doctoral student of the Chinese People’s University.
The Global Studies column informs of the latest session of Seminar on Philosophical and Methodological
Studies of Processes of Globalisation (Moscow) debating Pr. A. N. Chumakov’s lecture on The
Metamorphoses of Globalisation as and Objective Historic Process.
Under the Society
and Terrorism column read articles Aggression and Consensus by Pr. M. G. Aliev (Makhachkala); The
Existential and Psychological Sources of Contemporary Terrorism by Assoc. Pr. N. E. Salkova (Moscow); On
Non-Violent Methods of Fighting Terrorism by I.I.Kondrashin, Ph.D. (Moscow.
Under the Kant
and Our Time column read article The Apostle of Enlightenment, or
Kant’s Revelations about Morals and Religion by Pr. V. D. Zhukotsky (Nizhnevartovsk).
In Responses to Our Publications read From Impersonal Globalisation to the Personalising Universe by K. S. Khrutsky,
Ph.D. (Novgorod).
Under the Position column read responses to Yu. F. Karyakin’s controversial article An Immortal (the
untranslatable play on words meaning also a mortal devil – on Lenin,
published in RPhS Bulletin, 2004:3)
representing the opposing views, viz. The Pinnacles of Dissention (or A Reckless One) (a similarly untranslatable play on words meaning also a knock-off devil) by Assoc. Pr. V. D. Zhirnov (Moscow) and Lenin
Was No Philistine by Pr. I. A. Gobozov (Moscow).
Under the Standpoint column read Moscow-centrism by Pr. F. A. Selivanov (Tyumen) and An
Alarming Trend by Pr. T. V. Panfilova (Moscow).
Published
By Way of Discussion are Philosophy and Cantor’s Set by A. N. Smirnov
(Moscow); Human Life and Death in the
Philosophies of Late Antiquity and Russian Cosmism by
Assoc. Pr. I. A. Druzhinina (Kazan); Dialogue as
Statistics by V. G. Sholokhov, Ph.D. (technical sciences) (Moscow); Philosophy as a Factor of Freedom
and Human Moral Perfection by Pr. V. M. Artyomov (Moscow); The
Ontological and Epistemological Foundations of the Notion of Philosophy by Assoc. Pr. T. M. Novikova (Moscow); Religion
and Democracy by M. Yu. Sergeyev, Ph.D. (Philadelphia, U.S.A.); Philosophy is No Weltanschauung by Pr. F. A. Selivanov (Tyumen).
We introduce a new column Philosophy and Culture – read about Vladimir Tverskoy as a Russian
Cultural Phenomenon by Pr. N. Z. Yaroschuk (Moscow).
The Important Talks are by Pr. A. I. Yakovlev (Moscow), on After
Noosphere – Pneumatosphere;
Assoc. Pr. O. V. Petrov (Moscow),
on Relations with Power Structures; R. A. Kurbanov,
Ph.D. (Moscow), on Cooperation as a Form of
Effective Dialogue and Collaboration.
Under the Raising
a Problem column read The Experience of Construing a
Social Philosophy by
Assoc. Pr. M. E.Ryabova (Saransk).
Under the Philosophy
and Sport column read Sport in the Development of Culture by Pr. M. Ya. Saraf (Moscow oblast).
Under the Feedback column Pr. V. F. Druzhinin (Moscow) reviews of RPhS Bulletin No. 3, 2004.
On the Young
Philosopher’s Page read Artificial Man in Artificial World by N. L. Udodova, a postgraduate student (Yekaterinburg); European Union Ecology Policies by R. M. Musayev, a postgraduate student (Moscow); H. Rickert’s System of Values
and the Problem of Sense by M. K. Shumeiko, a postgraduate student (Rostov-on-Don).
Under the Philosophy
in the Internet column
read Further Exploring the RUNET by D. G. Shkayev (Moscow).
In the New
Notions and Terms column
(supervised by Pr. Mikhail Epstein, Atlanta, USA) read Under- (as a philosophical paradigm
of Russian civilization).
Mentioned as Noteworthy is information on the schedule
of the proposed philosophical excursion to Greece (August 13 to 28, 2005) and the requirements for joining the event; the
activities of the Samara RPhS Branch aimed at establishing and eliminating
the causes for dominance of knowledge differentiation and the low efficiency of
the educational system in the formation of the principal types of intellect;
the forthcoming UNESCO International
Philosophical Olympiad.
This
issue’s Contemporary Foreign Journals
column informs of Philosophy
Now, a British analytical magazine. .
See
also book
reviews, annotations, book announcements,
information on books and journals available at the Presidium of the
Russian Philosophical Society, doctoral (14) and candidate (65) dissertations in
philosophy defended in the fourth quarter of 2004.
The Philosophers
Joke Too column
presents collections of aphorisms by Victor Bezborodov, a
writer; A Fairy Tale by Katya Belotsvetova, a student; a humorous New Year
poem by Pr. E. V. Girusov.
On the Poetic Page read address to readers by the column supervisor A. V. Katsura and verse by Alexei Panishchev (Kursk), Igor Ilyinsky (Moscow), Mikhail Zhikharevich (Pskov), Gairat.
Published also are letters of congratulations on jubilees, rewards, other
notable events and obituaries.
We
publish the RPhS
Conferences Plan for the Year 2005 (88 conferences and other similar
events), Supplement
to the RPhS Structure and Additions to the RPhS Membership
List (103 regional branches; 36 field branches; 4,768
individual members).
Read also requirements for the 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.
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