Rudn Journal of Philosophy
June 30, 2026
Boris Sergeevich Solozhenkin
In twentieth-century pragmatist thought, a conflict emerged between two epistemological orientations, expressed through the metaphors of coping with (interaction) and copy (representation). This work examines the reductionist approach to resolving this conflict. The starting point is Richard Rorty’s philosophy, which, alongside radical constructivism, embraces the metaphor of coping with while...
Rudn Journal of Philosophy
March 31, 2026
Oleg T. Ermishin
The research devoted to the studies of Merab Mamardashvili and Alexander Pyatigorsky, their philosophical approaches to understanding consciousness. M.K. Mamardashvili and A.M. Pyatigorsky first presented the “metatheory of consciousness” in the joint work “Symbol and consciousness” (completed in 1974, published in 1982). The basics of their “metatheory” are the description of the “structure of...
Rudn Journal of Philosophy
October 2, 2025
André Leclerc
In most countries of Latin America, there are philosophers working in the philosophy of mind. Interesting contributions has been made to all the important themes of recent Philosophy of mind in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, and Columbia. There are works on Externalism, Naturalism, Enactivism, Extended Mind, Physicalism, Mental Causation, Intentionality, Consciousness and the phenomenal...
Rudn Journal of Philosophy
July 16, 2025
Anatoly G. Pushkarsky
Since its inception, the artificial intelligence program has relied on a positivistic, anti-psychological philosophical paradigm, in which a purely physicalistic description of thinking processes assumed their adequate modeling using logical machines relevant to the tasks and goals, such as Turing (1960s-70s). Optimistic expectations of positive results immediately ran into both technical...
Rudn Journal of Philosophy
January 9, 2025
Egor V. Falev
1 citation
The research deals with the concept of “epistemologically different worlds” introduced by Gabriel Vacariu and its background in European science and philosophy, since the beginning of the twentieth century. It is shown that the accusation of plagiarism made by Vacariu against Marcus Gabriel is groundless, firstly, because Gabriel’s concept of “semantic fields” ( Sinnfeld ) is not identical to...
Rudn Journal of Philosophy
January 9, 2025
Natalia V. Zaitseva, Dmitry V. Zaitsev
The research serves as an introduction to experimental philosophy and introduces a special journal issue on this topic. We trace a brief history of experimental philosophy and consider different variants of its interpretation. Building upon this, we propose the interpretation of experimental philosophy not as a particular direction or stage in the development of philosophical thought but rather...
Rudn Journal of Philosophy
January 9, 2025
Elena V. Kosilova
In our time, the so-called experimental philosophy is emerging. Examples of it are the experimental study of cognition, empirical studies of the work of scientists and the development of scientific knowledge (STS), and some other fields. At the same time, philosophical statements claim to be universally valid. Logical positivists held that metaphysical statements are unverifiable and therefore...
Rudn Journal of Philosophy
December 15, 2024
Olga A. Vlasova
On the wave of intensive development of cognitive sciences we see the intensive physiology, psychology and philosophy studies in the Russian tradition. Philosophy discusses the analytical think and the problem of free will, logic, epistemology and enactivism; the orient studies with attention to experience are very rarely. Against this background, psychiatric neurophenomenology as one of the...
Rudn Journal of Philosophy
December 15, 2024
I. Evlampiev
In the research based on the analysis of the works “On the form and principles of the sensory and intelligible world” and “The only possible basis for proving the existence of God,” it is proved that I. Kant consciously based his philosophical system on the metaphysics of mystical pantheism, according to which the earthly world is the result of the “internal” transformation of the apophatic...
Rudn Journal of Philosophy
December 22, 2023
Ηelen V. Chapny
The study presents a conceptual analysis of the main approaches to the study of the human brain and consciousness from the standpoint of modern domestic and foreign neuroscience. Relevant interpretations of such problematic issues and concepts as “the boundary of the human body”, “embodied knowledge”, “general artificial intelligence”, “self”, etc. From the standpoint of a body-oriented...
Rudn Journal of Philosophy
December 15, 2023
J. Sokolova
The research is devoted to justification of the interdisciplinary approach in the study of consciousness. Studying consciousness as a phenomenon is a very divergent project, the mystery of its nature and appearance makes different ways of studying consciousness possible. Besides, consciousness is an umbrella term which may be interpreted differently in different contexts. Various approaches to...
Rudn Journal of Philosophy
January 10, 2023
Igor F. Mikhailov
2 citations
The latest progress in empirical studies of consciousness and spectacular advances in AI technologies kick philosophy out of the familiar comfort of uncontrolled proliferation of concepts and scholastic disputes. In the overview of the current state of empirical theories of consciousness, author reveals that those theories still find themselves in the pre-paradigmatic stage, therefore not yet...
Rudn Journal of Philosophy
January 10, 2023
Anastasiia A. Zhudina
1 citation
When trying to give a universal definition to the term “neurophilosophy,” difficulties arise, since each researcher who identifies himself as a member of this field sets his own definition. The common thing for the work of “neurophilosophers” can be described as an interdisciplinary approach, which takes into account the achievements in the field of consciousness research of both philosophical...
Rudn Journal of Philosophy
January 10, 2023
Pavel N. Baryshnikov
This article will focus on the mechanistic origins of the computer metaphor, which forms the conceptual framework for the methodology of the cognitive sciences, some areas of artificial intelligence and the philosophy of mind. The connection between the history of computing technology, epistemology and the philosophy of mind is expressed through the metaphorical dictionaries of the...
Rudn Journal of Philosophy
December 15, 2022
V. Vasilyev
16 citations
The introductory article by V.V. Vasilyev, the guest editor of the thematic section on “Philosophy of Mind”, offers a general vision on the researches of mind and consciousness today, gives a brief overview of the articles presented in the issue, and outlines the horizon for the development of both interdisciplinary and philosophical studies of consciousness.
Rudn Journal of Philosophy
December 15, 2022
I. Cherepanov
2 citations
The article analyzes the effectiveness of quantum theories of mental experience in relation to two ontological problems - the problem of the existence of consciousness in the material world and the problem of the interaction of consciousness and body. A critical analysis of the quantum theories of consciousness by Penrose-Hameroff, M. Tegmark, G. Stapp, M. Fischer and M.B. Mensky shows that...
Rudn Journal of Philosophy
June 30, 2022
Asha Mukherjee
3 citations
The main concern in this paper is to explore the relationship between Jaina ethics and meditation techniques proposed in the Jaina scriptures and its foundations. Meditative practices have been practiced in Jaina tradition for centuries. We also find a difference between the interpretation of scriptures (especially Digambara and Svetambara) regarding meditation, and it also sometimes gets...
Rudn Journal of Philosophy
2022
In the existing philosophical interpretations of mystical experience (constructivism, essentialism, etc.), its essence is usually seen in the features of "mystical knowledge". At the same time, the value-semantic foundations of mystical experience and its existential aspect remain in the shadows. In this article, the mystical experience is analyzed from the standpoint of the theories of the...
Rudn Journal of Philosophy
October 6, 2021
Hans Martin Dober
There are contemporary tendencies to regard the human consciousness as an algorithm, or to reduce the human subjective to organic-natural processes or to see it as a social construction depending on cultural conditions. Such approaches pose a challenge to ethical humanism, as it seems, as if it requires new justification and groundings. How can we grasp and defend the concept of embodied...
Rudn Journal of Philosophy
December 4, 2020
Nikolay L. Arkhiereev, Marina L. Ivleva, . Baldo Dagtcmaa
This is a review of the book Mozg - kultura - socium. Kantianskaya programma v cognitivnykh issledovaniyakh by Bazhanov V.A. The author`s main aim is a reconsideration of some fundamental principles of epistemology and philosophy of science in the light of state-of-the-art advancements of neurosciences. According to the author of the book, social and cultural revolution in neurosciences has...
Rudn Journal of Philosophy
September 16, 2018
P N Baryshnikov
This article focuses on the explanatory limits of the computational approach to the phenomenal consciousness. The principal aim is to analyze the methodological bounds of computational models regarding the content of the subjective phenomenal experience. Special attention is given to the correlation between the information theory and the semantic problems of natural language. We proceed from...
Rudn Journal of Philosophy
September 16, 2018
D V Mamchenkov
The paper analyzes “Hard problem” of consciousness through the principle of the onto-epistemological uncertainty. It is shown that the method of production of “Hard problem” in the analytic philosophical tradition inevitably makes it a pseudo. At the same time, with the consistent implementation of the principle of the onto-epistemological uncertainty is removed antinomy solutions to the...