Core Faculty

Abdusalam A. Guseinov
Academician (Full Member), Russian Academy of Sciences; Dr. Sc., Philosophy; Professor;
Director, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Robert L. Holmes
Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Rochester, USA. The sphere of academic interests includes philosophy of war, the ethics of nonviolence, contemporary ethical theory, normative problems in social, political, and international affairs; contemporary moral problems. His publications: On War and Morality, (1989); Nonviolence in Theory and Practice (editor) (1990, 2001); Basic Moral Philosophy (1993, 1998, 2003).
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Boris G. Kapustin
Dr. Sc., Philosophy; Professor; Leading Scientist, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences; Vice-rector the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, visiting Professor, Yale University and the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals 'POLIS' (Moscow) and 'The Journal of Postcommunist Studies' (Los Angeles). His range of research interests includes history of political philosophy, theories of modernity, morality and politics. Recent publications: Moral Choice in Politics (2004); Morality in the Context of Politics: Anthology (editor) (2004).
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Academic Faculty

Ruben G. Apressyan
Program Director
Dr. Sc., Philosophy; Professor; Head, Department of Ethics, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Center for Applied and Professional Ethics.
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Karl G. Ballestrem
Dr. of Philosophy; Assistant Professor at Notre Dame (USA) and Munich (Germany), since 1983 – a chair of political philosophy; since 2004 – professor-emeritus at the Catholic University of Eichstaett.

Cicovacki Predrag
Ph.D., Philosophy; Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of the Holy Cross. Areas of specialisation: Kant Philosophy, Ethics of Conflict Resolution, Peace Studies, the problems of evil and violence.
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Epstein (Epshtein) Mikhail N.
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature, Emory University; author of 17 books and some 400 articles on philosophy, culture, and literature, translated into in 14 languages.
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Nicholas G. Fotion
Professor, Philosophy Department, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
His academic interests lie in the sphere of philosophy of language, metaethics, military ethics, and biomedical ethics. Recent publications: Moral Constraints on War (co-edited with Bruno Coppieters) (2002); John Searle: Philosophy Now (2000).
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Trudy Govier
Professor, Philosophy Department, University of Lethbridge, Canada. The sphere of academic interests includes social philosophy, problems of violence and peace. Main publications: "A Practical Study of Argument" (Wadsworth, six editions), "Social Trust and Human Communities" ( McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997), "Forgiveness and Revenge" (Routledge 2002).
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Kobzev Artem
Professor, Head, Department of Chinese Ideology and Culture, Institute for Orient Studies; Dean, Faculty of Humanities, Head, Chair of Cultural Studies, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; Chief Research Fellow, Institute for Far East Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Leading Research Fellow, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences. An author of four books and over 400 articles on Chinese history, science, and culture.
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Krasnova Tatiana
Ph.D. (Psychology), Senior Research Fellow, Center for Education Development, Byelorussian State University. Academic interests: competence approach in pedagogy, developing education, experience-based education. Interactive seminars and trainings for educators; training technologies for higher education.
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Svetlana Levikova
Dr. of Philosophy, Professor at Moscow State Pedagogical University; Vice President, International organization «Philosophy for children».

Leonid V. Maximov
Dr. Sc., Philosophy; Professor; Leading Scientist, Department of Ethics, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Nazarov Vladimir
Professor, Head, Department of Theology and Studies in Religion, Leo Tolstoy Tula State University of Education. Academic interests: philosophy of culture, philosophy of religion, applied ethics, history of Russian Ethics, esoteric teachings. Main publications: Phenomenology of Wisdom: The Images of Wiseman in the History of Culture (Tula, 1993), The Puzzles of Russian Interfluve (Moscow: Vieche, 2003), Introductory Theology (Moscow: Gardariki, 2004), Ethical Education in Russia: in History and Today (Tula, 2004), Applied Ethics (Moscow: Gardariki, 2005)
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Larisa Retyunskikh
Dr. of Philosophy, Professor at Moscow State Pedagogical University; President, International organization «Philosophy for children».

Andrey V. Smirnov
Dr. Sc., Philosophy; Leading Scientist, Center for Oriental Philosophies Studies, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Erikh Solov'jev
Dr. of Philosophy, Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Scinces.

Karen Swassjan
Dr. of Philosophy, Professor, Research Fellow, Forum fur Geisteswissenschaft, Wallisellen/Schweiz.
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Tischenko D. Pavel
Leading Research Fellow, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences. Academic interests: bioethics, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of science and technology. Main publications: Introduction to Bioethics (Moscow: Progress-Traditsia, 1998, editor, coauthor), Bio-Power at the Age of BioTechnologies (Moscow: Institute of Philosophy, 2001), "Bioethics" (Ethics: Encyclopedic Dictionary, Moscow: Gardariki, 2001, p. 39-41).
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Richard Werner
John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Hamilton College, Clinton, USA. His main publications are on the problems of ethical realism, moral problems of just war, abortion, nuclear deterrence, etc.
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Boris Yudin
Assosiated Member, Russian Academy of Sciences; Dr. of Philosophy, Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Scinces; Journal "Chelovek”, Chief Editor.

Regional Faculty

Abolina Tatiana G.
Dr. Sc., Philosophy; Professor, Department of Ethics and History of Culture, Kiev National University, Ukraine. Academic interests: normative and applied ethics. Publicatios: "Historical Fates of Morals (philosophical and ethical analysis)", "Ethics".
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Devyatkin Sergei
Cand. Sc., Philosophy (Ph.D); Head, Department of Philosophical Anthropology, Novgorod State University; Director of Novgorod Center for Advanced Study and Education. Academic interests: philosophy of nonviolence. Main publications: "Gandism" (2001), "Philosophy of Satyagraha" (1996).
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Tatiana V. Mishatkina
Dr. Sc., Philsophy; Professor, Department of Philosophy and Humanitarian Sciencies, The National institute for Higher Education; Professor of the Department of Phsihology and Ethics, The Belorussian State Economic University. Academic interests: general, applied, professional and biomedical ethics. Recent publications: textbooks Ethics, Biomedical Ethics, etc.
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Nijole Vasiljeviene
Dr. Sc., Philosophy; Senior research fellow; Head of the Center for Business/ Applied Ethics; Associated professor of ethics and business/ professional ethics at the Department of Philosophy and Political Sciences, Kaunas Faculty of Humanities, Vilnius University. The main publications: Business Ethics and codes of conduct: Philosophical Origins, Methodological Reasoning and Peculiarities of Modern Practice (2000); Business Ethics: World Tendencies and Actualities in Post-socialist Countries (2001); Ethical foundations of economy - theory and practice (in co-authorship) (2003).
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