The article attempts to analyze the “reversal of consciousness” as a moment of “experience”, which is connected with determining the status of object in Hegel’s philosophy. The author aims to demonstrate that attention to this theme helps to clarify the foundations of the evolution of Hegel’s ideas about the nature and composition of the system of philosophy. The analysis of the “reversal of...
The article analyzes the attempt to create a holistic doctrine of the historical process, undertaken by the German philosopher and Hebraist Franz Joseph Molitor (1779–1860). Molitor’s views, expressed in his major work, “The Philosophy of History, or On Tradition” (1827–1857), were based both on the philosophical ideas of Schelling and the concepts of Jewish mysticism (Kabbalah). An expert...
The article focuses on the exploration of the under-researched area of the philosophy of mathematics, as presented by Valerian Nikolaevich Muravyov (1885–1930). The article focuses on concepts related to set theory, Pythagoreanism, and mathematical mysticism, with a particular emphasis on Muravyov’s concept of dialectical construction of plurality. Muravyov developed this concept based on the...
The review is devoted to the Russian-language translation of the Abraham Isaac (Arthur) Green’s “Guide to the Book of Zohar” (2004) that was published in 2025. Arthur Green is one of the famous thinkers and researchers of Jewish mysticism, and his “Guide” is a small but capacious introduction to Jewish mysticism. It was published in 2004 as an addition to the publication of the English...
The line of investigation of consciousness through consciousness itself in European philosophy is represented by the doctrines elaborated as an answer to the question: “What in my consciousness is determined by consciousness itself, and not by the world?” The names of Descartes, Kant, and Husserl mark the most significant moments in the development of this line. This line is opposed to the...
Attempts to create empirically based theories of consciousness face two kinds of obstacles. First, the dominant strategy of searching for the neural correlates of consciousness has been unsuccessful due to the lack of working hypotheses about their causal connection with conscious states. The second obstacle is multiplicity of explananda – the lack of sufficient evidence for the belief that...
This article considers some important methodological questions related to the development of modern science of consciousness: the question of a search for a grand unified theory, determining an optimal explanatory strategy, virtues of computational theories of consciousness. The author draws on the fact of close interaction between the modern consciousness studies and cognitive sciences....
This paper examines from a special perspective the problem of methodological limitations of the computational approach in the philosophy of mind and empirical sciences. The main goal is to consistently substantiate the dependence of philosophical “metaphorical dictionaries” on advances in the field of computer science, historical contexts of epistemology, formal and methodological...
In this paper I examine the ideas expressed by Igor Mikhailov in his paper “Subjects and Methods of Empirical Theories of Consciousness” and discuss some problems associated with the possibility of non – empirical or non – experimental study of consciousness. While generally agreeing with the conclusions of Mikhailov’s paper regarding his proposals for improving matters in empirical theories...
The article addresses the following question: what is sense (smysl) as such, not to be confused with the sense of something. The sense as such sets the absolute limit for human consciousness, since we can be conscious only of that which makes sense, and, vice versa, what makes sense is part of our consciousness. Sense is devoid of semiotic nature, for sense as such cannot be conceptualized as...
An unbiased metaphysics of consciousness allows us to put forward a thesis that consciousness is not an object, but a fundamental problem of modern philosophy and different solutions of this problem define the history of European philosophy. For Descartes, consciousness is Cogito, the personalization of substance by the mind acting in a variety of cogital, conscious acts. Kant, for whom...
Short, middle and long-term objectives for the logic of sense are outlined. The short-term objective is, firstly, to sketch the logic-and-meaning map of the four big cultures of humankind (European, Arab-Muslim, South Asian and Far Eastern) producing the first description of the logics of sense manifold. This description will outline that variant of (1) power of judgment, (2) basic...
The paper critically examines some theses from A.V. Smirnov’s monograph ‘The Logic of Meaning as a Philosophy of Consciousness: An Invitation to Reflection’. In particular, the statement about the inability of cognitive sciences to exhaustively explain consciousness because of its de-subjectivation within their framework. It is shown that cognitive sciences are generally able to cope with the...
This paper is a full version of the author’s talk at “Procedural Logic and Philosophy of Consciousness”, a discussion dedicated to A.V. Smirnov’s book “The Logic of Meaning as a Philosophy of Consciousness: An Invitation to Reflection” (2021). The proposed content can be viewed as a co-reflection on the key concepts of the logical-semantic concept of consciousness: coherence, integrity,...
The article is an extended version of the paper for the round table discussion “Process Logic and Philosophy of Consciousness” devoted to the key ideas of A.V. Smirnov. The paper deals with two topics: the problem of logical and the problem of the connection between deep logic and linguistic-specific cognitive development. The author criticizes the widespread reduction of “logical” to...
The object of investigation in this paper is the significance of the structure of the narrator in Hegel’s “Phenomenology of Spirit” for understanding the content of the basic concepts of the work – time, history, “recollection”. This structure is determined by the correlation between the consciousness of the author and that of the reader, consciousness itself as an object of consideration and...
This article is a review of Ben Lazare Mijuskovic’s book Consciousness and Loneliness: Theoria and Praxis (2018). The problem of the dividedness of the contemporary philosophy into the two different traditions has recently become apparent. This is evidenced by the growth of a number of investigations aiming to embrace contemporary thought in its wholeness. Among such studies is the new work of...
The paper deals with Martine Nida-Rümelin’s argument in defense of emergent substance dualism developed in her recent papers. The author reconstructs and critically considers the central claims of the argument: 1. The emergence of new Individuals, 2. The emergence of Consciousness Properties, 3. Qualitatively New Properties, 4. Subject Causation, and 5. The causal Powers of Consciousness...