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29 papers in the library · 4 citations · publishing 2022-2026
Voprosy Filosofii October 7, 2026 Konstantin E. Morozov
Experientialism is a family of philosophical theories of well-being that tie well-being to experiencing certain positively charged experiences. Experientialism has fallen out of favor today because of Robert Nozick’s experience machine objection. According to this objection, experientialism must allow that there is no difference between living well in reality and living well in a plausible...
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 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 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 I. Urbanaeva
A brief introduction to the Western philosophical tradition of examining the difficult problem of man allows us, on the one hand, to identify aspects that bring it closer to Buddhist anthropology (the rejection of the epistemological paradigm and an emphasis on the ontology of freedom and the “hiddenness of being”); on the other hand, it highlights the latter’s profound specificity: it...
Voprosy Filosofii May 6, 2026 M.I. Nenashev
The article examines the concept of consciousness by M.I. Karinsky, a representative of the pre-phenomenological tradition in Russian philosophy in the second half of the 19th century. The author shows that in his program work “Phenomenon and Reality” Karinsky develops ideas comparable to the most important provisions of the book by the Austrian philosopher and psychologist Franz Brentano...
Voprosy Filosofii April 12, 2026 S. L. Burmistrov
Nāgārjuna (2nd–3rd centuries) and Āryadeva (3rd century) had somewhat different approaches to the interpretation of anātmavāda (the conception of the non-existence of unchanging “I”) in Buddhism. For Nāgārjuna, the founder of the Madhyamaka school, the concept of ātman is contradictory and therefore empty, since it is based not on a non-conceptual reality, but on other concepts and ideas. But...
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 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 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 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 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 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 4 citations
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 Keith Frankish, Maxim Gorbachev
This is the second part of the article devoted to the approach to the problem of consciousness, which is called illusionism. Illusionism claims that phenomenal consciousness is illusory, because conscious experience is misrepresented as having phenomenal properties. Illusionism replaces the hard problem of consciousness with the problem of illusion. In this part, special attention is paid to...