Bulletin
of the Russian Philosophical Society
No. 2 (54) 2010
(240 p.)
We hereby announce publication and circulation of the Bulletin of the
Russian Philosophical Society No. 2, 2010 (Editor-in-Chief, Professor A. N. Chumakov; Executive Secretary, Professor N. Z. Yaroschuk).
The opening Editor’s Column is titled In the Beginning Was the Word. Here Professor A. N. Chumakov, Editor-in-Chief, reflects on a number of
principal themes and questions related to important events within the
philosophical community and the Bulletin’s editorial policies.
Read Information from the RPhS
Regional Branches and Organisations for a detailed account of Academician
V. S. Styopin’s visit to Tomsk; the meeting of Pr. A. N. Chumakov, First Vice President, RPhS, and
Assoc. Pr. A. D. Korolyov, Chief Scientific
Secretary, RPhS, with the leading functionaries of the Kuban RPhS Branch; the Round Table on Dialogue of Cultures Under Conditions of Globalisation organised by
the Adygeya RPhS Branch; the Russian
National Workshop on Sociology,
Philosophy, Law as Scientific Foundations of Contemporary Social Development
held by Krasnoyarsk Philosophical
Society in cooperation with other organisations; the Fifth Russian National
Askin Readings on Philosopher’s
Life-World at the Age of Globalisation at the Saratov State University. Read also a review of the activities of
the
See News from the Moscow
Philosophical Society for
report of the MPhS Governing Board about the Society’s activities between April
2009 and April 2010 and membership of the newly elected Governing Board. Reed
detailed account of the Russian National Workshop on Socio-humanitarian Problems of Civil Engineering at the Moscow
State University of Civil Engineering; and information about the International
Workshop on Tourist Industry:
Possibilities, Priorities, Problems and Prospects at the Gostiny Dvor
Exhibition Centre; the Moscow State Law Academy students’ participation at the
Conference on The Meaning of the Crisis
of Technogenic Civilisation held at the Academic House.
Events and
Comments inform about the International Conference held in
Nizhny Novgorod within the framework of the Year of France in Russia and the
Year of Russia in France to discuss Interconfessional
Relations in Central Eurasia; the Interdisciplinary Round Table on Philosophy of Crisis: Pursuing the Talk
at the Financial Academy; the conference in Ufa commemorating the 100th anniversary of V. I. Svidersky; the Power-4
Award (the Russian National Award in Socio-political Journalism) ceremony at
the Institute of Social Design (Moscow); the Aristotle Readings in Rostov-on-Don; the 10th anniversary of Alexander Bogdanov International Institute
(Yekaterinburg); the activities of the Herzen
Philosophical Society (St. Petersburg); the International Students’
Conference on Life and Happiness in the
Dynamics of Being: The Contemporary Youth Outlook in Kazan; the activities
of the Interdisciplinary Seminar for Transhumanism
and Scientific Immortalism over the last five years (Moscow).
Problems of
Teaching Philosophy present Philosophy
as an Educational Discipline in
Read Managing
Education: Contemporary Approaches for Basics of Modelling the External Environment of the Education Process
by Pr. S. V. Ivanova
(
A Topical Issue is discussed in Science Beyond Tradition by Pr. A. A. Krushanov (
To learn about Scholarly
Life in the Near Abroad read The
Days of Science in Kiev by Ye. V. Silina,
postgraduate student (Moscow); The Method
of Comparative Analysis in the Writings of Abu ar-Rayhan al-Biruni by
Assoc. Pr. G. T. Kabulinyazova
(Tashkent, Uzbekistan); Logics in the
Post-Soviet Space by Assoc. Pr. O. V. Malyukova (Moscow).
Read Philosophical
Life Abroad for Contemporary Polish Philosophy of History
by O. K. Shevchenko,
Cand. Philos. Sc. (
Civil
Society presents On the
Ideology of Liberalism, Truth and Good by Pr. G. N. Gumnitsky (
Published By Way of Discussion are The Love for Meaning and the Meaning of Education by Pr. V. G. Torosyan (Krasnodar); The Sociology of Human Rights as a Branch of Science by R. M. Musayev, Visiting Scholar, Moscow State
University; Is Philosophical Materialism
Obsolete? By Pr. A. V. Yerakhtin (Ivanovo); Marx’s
Formations Theory in the Present-day Light by Pr. S. V.
Sokolov (Nizhny
Novgorod); Philosophy and Economy by
Pr. V. D. Ivshin (Moscow); In the Direction of
“Existential” Materialism by Pr. E. A. Taisina (Kazan); On the Nature of the Virtual by Pr. I. I. Bulychov (Ivanovo).
See History
and Philosophy of Science for The
Doomsday Science by Pr. V. A. Kutyryov (
To learn
more about the Union of Philosophy and Natural Sciences read Contemporary Astronomy: The Problem of
Universe Self-organisation by T. N.
Makarov, postgraduate student (
Read Continuing
the Debate for Faith and
Knowledge: On the Danger of Counterpoising Them While Teaching “The Basics of
Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics” by Assoc. Pr. Yu. R. Furmanov (
Philosophical
Anthropology presents On the
Debates About Human Nature by Pr. L. P. Buyeva
(
Philosophy
of Culture presents At the
23rd Tehran International Book Fair by B. S. Yesenkin,
D. Econ. Sc. (
Read Philosophy
of Nation’s Health for On the
Problem of Moratorium on Cloning Humans by Pr. I. V. Vushev (
Read Global
Studies for information about
the IAGS [International Association for
Global Studies]: A New International Organisation by Pr. A G. Pyrin (
See Eurasianism:
Prospects of Comprehension for The
Zoroastrian Roots of Eurasianism by Assoc. Pr. Gudrat Seifi (
Feedback presents analytical reviews of RPhS Bulletin 2010:1 by an independent
observer Pr. V. F. Druzhinin (
See the Young Philosopher’s Page for The Medieval Construction of Space-Time in Contemporary Culture by N. V. Minkova, postgraduate student (
See Rejoinder for A Religious
Rite as a Service by Pr. A. G. Pyrin (
Standpoint presents The Philosophy of the Variable World by V. V. Farmakovsky (
Read Polemics for How a Professor from Nizhny Novgorod Whipped Himself by Pr. N. M. Solodukho (
Read Jubilee
for Back to Lenin: Rethinking the Truths
of Socialism: Towards the 140th Anniversary of V. I. Lenin by
Pr. V. V. Mantatov (
Our
Contemporaries celebrate the 80th birthday of Yu. F. Karyakin.
Read Philosophers Joke Too for The Divine Comedy, a play by Pr. K. N. Lyubutin (Yekaterinburg).
The Poetic Page presents verses by David Dubrovsky (
Mentioned as Noteworthy is information
about the International Conference (with elements of school) of Young Scholars
on Endowments: From Theory to Practice
(October 1-5, 2010, Sochi); the Russian National Conference on Ethnos, Nation, Society: The Russian
Realities and Prospects (October 2010, Moscow); the Russian National
Conference on Modernisation of Russia:
Science, Education, and High Technologies (November 15-17, 2010,
Moscow); the Russian National (with international participation) Scientific and
Philosophical Conference on the Situationality
of Being (November 11-12, 2010, Kazan); the publication of he Philosophical Calendar, commemorating
the 90th birthday of F. H. Kessidi.
Looking for a Job has become a regular column.
See also book reviews, annotations, book
announcements,
information about books published by members of the Institute of Philosophy, RAS, in 2009, books and
journals available at
the RPhS Presidium, doctoral (6) and candidate (47) dissertations in philosophy defended
in the second quarter of 2010. Read also information about the forthcoming
competition in philosophical writing.
Published also are letters of congratulations on jubilees and other notable
events in philosophers’ lives and obituaries.
Read also requirements for the RPhS membership for 2010. 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.
The Bulletin’s subscription index in the Rospechat Catalogue is 79643. Please, send your e-mail messages addressed to the RPhS Presidium and the RPhS Bulletin Editorial Board to rphs@iph.ras.ru. Our Internet websites are www.logic.ru/~phil-soc; www.dialog21.ru; www.globalistika.ru; www.rosfilos.org. To contact the Editors, please, call (495) 609-90-76 or (495) 697-92-98.
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