Voprosy Filosofii
September 7, 2026
Viktoria G. Lysenko
The article offers a hermeneutical analysis of the situation that emerged as a result of Russian philosophical language, formed predominantly by Western (Greek, Latin, German, French, and English) terminology, automatically coming under the influence of the idea that philosophy is an exclusive achievement of Western civilization originating in ancient Greece. The article's aim is to demonstrate...
Voprosy Filosofii
July 10, 2026
Pavel Nosachev
The article provides a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical foundations of three significant fields: New Religious Movements (NRMs) studies, New Age studies, and Western Esotericism. The author offers a historical overview of these domains, reconstructing the scholarly background and interdisciplinary context of their conceptual formation. It is argued that the primary obstacle to their...
Voprosy Filosofii
July 10, 2026
Viktor D. Bakulov, Danil R. Melnikov
The article offers a reflection on the collective monograph “Kant and the Philosophy of Mind” and analyzes the current state of analytic philosophy of consciousness through the lens of Kant’s critical project. It examines which aspects of Kantian thought are most fruitful for understanding phenomenal consciousness and the limits of inquiry. The central question concerns which feature of...
Voprosy Filosofii
July 10, 2026
Evgenii N. Ivakhnenko, Maxim F. Yanukovich
The rapid development of large language models (LLMs) has confronted philosophy with a conceptual question: how should we conceptualize a system that demonstrates striking semantic productivity yet fundamentally lacks human consciousness? The dominant answers in both academic and public discourse oscillate between two extremes: the anthropomorphization of AI or its reduction to a “stochastic...
Voprosy Filosofii
April 12, 2026
Natalia S. Zhirtueva, Alyona B. Rusakova
The article analyses ontological, epistemological, anthropological and social ideas of Hesychasm, which are important in the practice of formation of human personality and consciousness. Contemporary scientific thought has given rise to two mutually exclusive approaches to the problem of the nature and essence of consciousness. The first approach posits that human consciousness forms the image...
Voprosy Filosofii
April 2, 2026
Maxim V. Yakovlev
The article is devoted to the consideration of the current state of Russian neurophilosophy based on scientific articles published from 2015 to 2024. Russian neurophilosophy is becoming a significant part of the naturalistic and experimental directions of the philosophy of consciousness and serves as a space for constructive interaction between philosophers, neurobiologists, cognitive...
Voprosy Filosofii
January 21, 2026
Andrey V. Paribok
This article examines vitarka and vicāra, an important pair of technical terms for the functions of consciousness in two practical-phenomenological, i.e., yogic, traditions of Indian philosophy, namely, Buddhist Abhidharma and Sāṅkhya-yoga. It is shown that in their consideration the Buddhists have a historical priority and retained a phenomenological approach in their texts. In Patañjali’s...
Voprosy Filosofii
July 6, 2025
Lev Titlin
The article examines approaches to understanding the subject in traditional Indian and European philosophy. The author draws on concepts from Advaita Vedānta, Yoga, Sāṁkhya, Vaiśeṣika, and Buddhism, highlighting their common cultural core. The article notes that in most classical Indian systems, the subject (ātman, puruṣa) was considered as strictly separated from the external world, the...
Voprosy Filosofii
March 10, 2025
Natalia S. Zhirtueva
The article provides a comparative analysis of ideas about space and time, formed in the philosophical and mystical teachings of the world, with those that are characteristic of modern science. The non-classical scientific paradigm has created a new understanding of the spatio-temporal organization of being, which is characterized by multidimensionality and relativity. There are unique features...
Voprosy Filosofii
November 4, 2024
Ilya Kanaev, Ella Dryaeva
The article explores the question of whether an artificial intelligence (AI) system can attain human consciousness. The authors critically examine the current state of research in neuroscience, anthropology, and philosophy, highlighting the significant challenges posed by the limitations of computational power and the architecture of modern AI systems. The article proposes a distinction...
Voprosy Filosofii
August 1, 2024
Keith Frankish, Maxim Gorbachev
This is the second part of the article by Keith Frankish Quining Diet Qualia, which asks whether we can identify a neutral explanandum for theories of phenomenal consciousness, acceptable to all sides. The “classic” conception of qualia, on which qualia are intrinsic, ineffable, and subjective, will not serve this purpose, but it is widely assumed that a watered-down “diet” conception will. I...
Voprosy Filosofii
July 1, 2024
Maksim Miroshnichenko
In this article, the perspectives of Francisco Varela and Thomas Metzinger on the notion of selfhood are explored, highlighting their differences and similarities. The focus is on how the perception of self and the surrounding world is inseparable from elements of virtuality and simulation, which are vital in cognitive processes. Metzinger emphasizes perception’s illusory and simulated...
Voprosy Filosofii
July 1, 2024
Helena Knyazeva
The article discusses the idea of the plurality of worlds of human consciousness and animal psyche from the perspective of the conception of enactivism, philosophical phenomenology and complexity theory. It is shown that the multiversality of consciousness can be associated not only with its different states (sleep, wakefulness, extreme and altered states, personal and transpersonal...
Voprosy Filosofii
July 1, 2024
Keith Frankish, Maxim Gorbachev
This is the first part of the article by Keith Frankish Quining Diet Qualia, which asks whether we can identify a neutral explanandum for theories of phenomenal consciousness, acceptable to all sides. The “classic” conception of qualia, on which qualia are intrinsic, ineffable, and subjective, will not serve this purpose, but it is widely assumed that a watered-down “diet” conception will. The...
Voprosy Filosofii
July 1, 2024
Maxim Gorbachev
One of the central questions for contemporary philosophy of mind can be considered to be the question of the status of what is commonly called phenomenal consciousness or qualia. Any theory of consciousness must offer an explanation of phenomenality, which poses hard problem for researchers. However, it is not hard to see that such a formulation of the problem may be biased toward theories that...
Voprosy Filosofii
2023
Pavel V. Khondzinskiy
As we know, the publication of the translation of W. James’ “The Varieties of Religious Experience” in 1910 gave rise to a well-known discussion that took place in the pages of the journal “Questions of Philosophy and Psychology”. However, the fact that James’s concept has been critically comprehended in the works of some academic theologians, such as M. Tareev, P. Minin, A. Tuberovsky, still...
Voprosy Filosofii
2023
Pavel V. Khondzinskiy
The impact of W. James’s ideas on Russian religious thought is a well-known fact, however this topic cannot be considered exhausted, since the names and works of the representatives of spiritual and academic science, for whom an intellectual meeting with James became the impetus for creating their own concepts, still remain in the shadows. We should not forget that this meeting was prepared...
Voprosy Filosofii
2023
N. Zhirtueva, M. Kozlov
The article is devoted to the study of the features of the formation and development of the magical and mystical traditions in Russian culture, from the era of Ancient Rus’ to the present. In the culture of Ancient Russia the dominant was the magical consciousness, generated by the belief in the man’s ability to influence the material world with the help of certain rituals. The penetration of...
Voprosy Filosofii
2022
Ilya Kanaev, Ella Dryaeva
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Experiencing, awareness, and being conscious of the subjective experience are familiar to everyone and invariably bear the stamp of subjectivity. This makes the concept of consciousness one of the most problematic in modern science; insofar as there is no satisfactory definition of human consciousness that has been developed yet. This article reviews the most popular approaches to the...
Voprosy Filosofii
2022
S. Burmistrov
Fundamental difference between Buddhist Mahāyāna school of Madhyamaka and Brāhmaṇic school of Advaita Vedānta in interpretation of ontology of time is analyzed on the basis of Nāgārjuna’s (2–3rd cc.) treatise Mūla-madhyamaka-kārikā, Candrakīrti’s (7th c.) commentary Prasannapadā, Vasubandhu’s (4th c.) treatise Abhidharmakośa, Asaṅga’s (4th c.) Abhidharma-samuccaya, Śaṃkara’s (9th c.) commentary...
Voprosy Filosofii
2022
D. Dubrovsky
The development of artificial intelligence has entered a new stage associated with the problem of creating General Artificial Intelligence (AGI), approaching in its functions to the abilities of natural intelligence. Along with the phenomenological studies of the cognitive structures of subjective reality, the most important resource for the creation of AGI is the use of the results of...