Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences
October 15, 2025
Anastasiia A. Zhudina
The article analyzes David Dubrovsky’s approach to informational causation in comparison with research on mental causation in the analytic philosophy of mind. Central to this analysis is the question of whether consciousness and mental properties can serve as causes of physical events. Building on Dubrovsky’s premise that his conceptual framework is commensurable with the terminology of...
Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences
October 15, 2025
A. K. Marinosyan
The article explores the challenges of applying philosophical and neuroscientific theories of consciousness to artificial intelligence (AI) architectures, particularly large language models (LLMs). It argues that most of these theories were developed to explain biological consciousness and therefore cannot be seamlessly mapped onto artificial systems without risking oversimplified or unfounded...
Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences
June 15, 2025
Arseniy V. Nedyak
The article explores the phenomenon of consciousness through the lens of advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and of contemporary neurobiological theories, each offering a distinct account of the architecture of conscious processing. This theoretical landscape allows us to identify several specific properties – such as a global workspace, recurrent processing, metacognitive monitoring,...
Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences
August 15, 2024
Victoria G. Lysenko
The article examines the dialogue between British cognitive science expert Murray Shanahan and the large language model Claude 3 Opus about “self-awareness” of artificial intelligence (AI). Adopting a text-centric approach, the author analyzes AI’s discourse through a hermeneutic lens from a reader’s perspective, irrespective of whether AI possesses consciousness or personhood. The article...
Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences
August 15, 2024
D. Dubrovsky
The article presents a retrospective analysis of the author’s 70-year contribution to philosophy and science, focusing primarily on the hard problem of consciousness – the relationship between mental phenomena and neurophysiological processes. The author traces his intellectual journey in addressing this fundamental challenge to natural scientific knowledge and presents his conceptual...
Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences
June 27, 2020
Maxim D. Miroshnichenko
The paper is dedicated to the reconstruction of Alexander Piatigorsky’s observational philosophy within the context of the confrontation between two versions of the transcendental project of man-in-the-world. The first project accentuates the invariant functional organization of cognitive systems by abstracting from bodily, affective and phenomenological realization of this organization. On the...
Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences
August 21, 2019
D. Gasparyan
The article discusses the peculiarities and specific features of phenomenological approach developed in contemporary analytical philosophy. Despite the fact that the trust in phenomenological approaches continue to grow in analytical philosophy, it is necessary to recognize the presence of noticeable divergence between the classical transcendental phenomenology of E. Husserl and contemporary...
Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences
December 20, 2018
Историко-философский Экскурс, Зарубежная Философия, Современный Взгляд et al.
The article examines the change of theoretical framework in analytic philosophy of mind. It is well known fact that nowadays philosophical problems of mind are frequently seen as incredibly difficult. It is noteworthy that the first programs of analytical philosophy of mind (that is, logical positivism and philosophy of ordinary language) were skeptical about difficulty of that realm of...
Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences
November 28, 2018
M. D. Miroshnichenko
The author reconstructs the theory of F. Varela with relevance to the hard problem of consciousness. This problem was touched by Varela in relatively late period of his work. However, the implications for dissolution of this problem can be found in his earlier works with H. Maturana. Theory of autopoietic systems ties life and cognition together, resulting in natural historical comprehension of...
Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences
2018
David I. Dubrovsky
1 citation
The global crisis of terrestrial civilization is steadily increasing. A necessary condition for overcoming it is the change in mass consciousness, such negative qualities as irrepressible consumerism, aggressiveness, excessive egoism. As the Dalai Lama emphasizes: “We badly need a fundamental change in human consciousness”. According to him, science is of great importance in solving this...
Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences
2018
Maria V. Falikman
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