Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences

The Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian: Институт философии РАН) is the central research institution of Russia which conducts scientific work in the main areas and topical issues of modern philosophical knowledge.

Institute of Philosophy of RAS
Институт философии РАН
Established1929 (1929)
Field of research
Philosophy
DirectorA. A. Guseinov (acting)
LocationMoscow, Russia
AffiliationsRussian Academy of Sciences
Websitehttps://eng.iph.ras.ru/

History

It was founded as the Institute of Scientific Philosophy in 1921 by Gustav Shpet, who was its first director until 1923. The philosophy department of the University of Moscow had been disbanded in the summer of 1921, however philosophers such as Semyon Frank and Ivan Ilyin attempted to set up temporary courses at the new institute.[1]: 353  However, the Bolsheviks soon put a stop to this and Frank and Ilyin where amongst the deportees sent into exile on the philosophers' ships. Shpet's name was put forward for deportation but Anatoli Lunacharsky, the People's Commissar for Education, intervened and he was allowed to remain in Russia.[2]

The Institute of Scientific Philosophy was reassigned and became part of the created Russian Association of Research Institutes for Social Sciences (RANION). In 1927 a Philosophical Department was opened at the Communist Academy. On November 23, 1928, the actual unification of the philosophical section of the Communist Academy and the Institute of Scientific Philosophy headed by Abram Deborin.

On April 12, 1929 by the decree of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union, the merger of the section and the institute, an independent Institute of Philosophy of the Communist Academy was created, headed by Abram Deborin; at the same time, the Institute of Scientific Philosophy continued to operate in the RANION system, which was assigned the execution of an educational function the training of scientific personnel.[3]

In 1936 reform and unification of the Communist Academy and the Academy of Sciences of the USSR ( USSR Academy of Sciences): liquidation of the Communist Academy as an independent organization and its absorption by the structures of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union; the incorporation of the Institute of Philosophy into the system of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union: on the basis of the Institute of Philosophy of the Communist Academy, the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union was created, headed by Vladimir Adoratsky.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, since the end of 1991, the institution has been part of the system of the Russian Academy of Sciences.[4]

Directors
Years Director
September 1921 – March 1923 Gustav G. Shpet
March 1923 – 1924 Vladimir I. Nevsky (actual leader - deputy director Yakov A. Berman )
1924–1931 acad. Abram M. Deborin
1931–1938 acad. Vladimir V. Adoratsky
1939–1944 acad. Pavel F. Yudin
1944–1946 Doctor of Philosophy V. I. Svetlov
1946–1947 Doctor of Philosophy G. S. Vasetsky
1947–1954 acad. Georgy F. Aleksandrov
1955–1962 acad. Pyotr N. Fedoseev
1962–1967 acad. Fedor V. Konstantinov
1968–1971 Corresponding Member USSR Academy of Sciences Pavel V. Kopnin
1971–1973 Doctor of Philosophy F. T. Arkhiptsev (acting)
1973–1974 acad. Bonifaty M. Kedrov
1974–1983 Doctor of Philosophy B. S. Ukraintsev
1983—1985 acad. Georgy L. Smirnov
1986–1988 Corresponding Member RAS N. I. Lapin
1988—2006 acad. V. S. Stepin
2006–2015 acad. A. A. Guseinov
2015–2021 acad. Andrei V. Smirnov
2021 A. V. Chernyaev (acting)
since 2021 acad. A. A. Guseinov (acting)

References
  1. Hamburg, G. M.; Poole, Randall A. (2010). A History of Russian Philosophy 1830–1930: Faith, Reason, and the Defense of Human Dignity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. Nemeth, Thomas. "Gustav Shpet (1879—1937)". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  3. "Создан Институт научной философии: Русская философия : Руниверс". runivers.ru. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
  4. "Philosophy.ru". philosophy.ru. Retrieved 2021-08-27.

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