Vladimir Shokhin
I. Vladimir Kirillovitch Shokhin
Born 1951, May 3 in Moscow
II. Education:
1974 - graduated from Moscow State University, Department of Philosophy (Sub-faculty Ethics)
III. Dissertations:
1) 1981 - defended first dissertation (D.Ph. Diss.) “Some Text-Sources Problems of Studies in History of Ancient Samkhya” at the Institute of Oriental Studies, in Moscow;
2) 1991 - defended second dissertation (D. Litt. Diss) “History of Indian Philosophy: The Initial Period” at the Institute of Philosophy, in Moscow
IV. Positions:
1) Institute of Oriental Studies of the Soviet Academy of Sciences:
1974-1982 - junior research fellow;
1982- 1986 - research fellow;
2) Institute of Philosophy of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (later the Russian Academy of Sciences):
1986 - 1990 - a senior research fellow;
1990 - 1997 - a leading research fellow;
1997 - 2005 - a chief research fellow
2005 - head of department of philosophy of religion
V. Fellowship:
1989 — Fellowship in India; Grant of the University Grants Comission (UGC), New Delhi; Visiting scholar in Delhi University;
1996 — Fellowship in Germany; Grant of DAAD, Hamburg; Visiting scholar in Institut fьr Kultur und Geschichte Indiens und Tibets (Universitдt Hamburg) and Institut fьr Indologie (Universitдt Mainz)
VI. Conferences and Symposiums:
participated in more than twenty conferences and seminars, among them
1979 May 23 - 30 — the Fourth World Sanskrit Conference of the International Association of Sanskrit studies, Weimar; paper “Classical Samkhya about the ultimate elements of the material world”;
1997 January 3-9 — the Tenth World Sanskrit Conference, of the International Association of Sanskrit Studies, Bangalore, India; paper: “Conception of Purushartha According to the Sutras of the New Samkhyas”;
2000 — 2001 December 28 - January 2— The Platinum Jubilee of Indian Philosophical Congress Conference, Delhi, India; paper: “16 Padarthas of Nyaya and Indian Categorial Systems”;
2002 April 3, 2000— Bible and Science. Institute of Europe. Moscow, paper: “What kind of science was taught in Bible?”
2002 May 16 - 17 — The Methodology of Comparative Studies in History of Philosophy. Kaliningrad, Russia; paper “ Ontological respects of Descartes’ cogito in the light of comparative philosophy”.
2002 June 5 - 7 — Moral Philosophy in a Pluralistic Cultural Context. Moscow; paper “Good as a category of Indian Philosophy”.
2003 January 30 - February 1 — Russian-Anglo American Conference on Cosmology and Theology. University of Notre Dame, USA; paper “Biblical Hexaemeron: Some Disregarded Dimensions”.
2004 May 24 - 28 — International Congress Dedicated to 280 Years of Kant’s Birth and 200 Years of His Demise. Moscow; paper “Kant on the Absolute Value’.
VII. Languages:
English (read, speak, write), German (read), French (read), Sanskrit (read), Pali (read)
VIII. Teaching Experience:
1993 — 1996 Institute of the Oriental Languages (Moscow State University), visiting lecturer: “History of Indian Philosophy”;
1994 — 1995 Russian Orthodox University, visiting lecturer: “History of Axiology”
1996 — 1998 Russian Open University (Russian Academy of Education), visiting professor, course “First Philosophers of India”; “History of Axiology”
1996 up-to-date — State University of Humanities, faculty of philosophy, visiting lecturer: “History of Indian Philosophy”
2003 up-to-date — State University of Humanities, faculty of philosophy, head of chair of Metaphysics and Comparative Theology
2005 up-to-date — full professor
IX. Publications:
more than 150 publications on Indian philosophies, comparative philosophy, axiology, ethics, theology. Among them books: 1) Ancient India in Russian Culture. Moscow, Nauka Publishers, 1988, 336 P. ; 2) Brahmanic Philosophy: Initial and Early Classical Periods. Moscow, Eastern Literature Publishers, 1994, 354 P.; 3) Moonlight of the Samkhya Philosophy: Isvarakishna, Gaudapada, Vacaspati Mishra. Moscow, Ladomir Publishers, 1995, 325 P.; 4) Sutras of the Samkhya Philosophy: Tattva-samasa, Krama-dipika, Samkhya-sutras, Samkhyasutravritti. Moscow, Ladomir Publishers, 1997, 363P.; 5) First Philosophers of India. Moscow, Ladomir Publishers, 1997, 300 P.; 6) Th. Stcherbatsky and His Comparative Philosophy. Moscow, Institute of Philosophy, 1998, 248 P.; 7) The Nyaya-Sutras and Nyaya-Bhashya. Introduction, Translation from Sanskrit and Commentaries. Moscow, Oriental Literature Publishers, 2001, 504 P.; 8) Theology. Introduction into Theological Disciplines. Moscow, Institute of Philosophy, 120 P.; 9) Stratifications of Reality According to the Advaita-Vedanta Ontology. Moscow, Institute of Philosophy, 2004, 289 P.; 10) Schools of Indian Philosophy in Becoming (4th century B.C. — 2nd century A.D.). Moscow, Oriental Literature Publishers, 2004, 413 P. (all in Russian). Main articles. In English: (apart from the above-mentioned papers): The Tale of Barlaam and Ioasaphat: Problems of Text-Sources in the Study of Medieval Russian Philosophy. // Synthesis Philosophica, Zagreb, 1990, N 5, P. 47 - 64; Ancient Samkhya-Yoga: An Aspect of Tradition. // History of Indian Philosophy: A Russian Viewpoint. Ed. by M. Stepanyants. New Delhi, 1993, p. 101 - 110; Samkhya on the ends of man (purushartha) // Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik (StII), Reinbek, 1997, Bd.21, S. 193-205; What are the Sixteen Padarthas of Nyaya? An Attempt to Solve the Dilemma of Long Standing. // Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 2001, April-June, Vol. XVIII, N 2, P. 107 - 127. In German: Die Geschichte der Geschichte der Philosophie und die Modernitдt der modernen Welt. // Wiener Zeitschrift fьr Philosophie, 1993, Bd. XXV, S. 199 - 214. In Russian: Ancient Indian Rationalism as a Subject of History of Philosophy Studies. // Rational Tradition and Contemporary World. India. Moscow, 1988, p. 11 - 45; Specifying the Notion of Scholastic Philosophy. // Social and Social and Cultural Characteristics of Medieval Philosophy. Moscow, 1990, P. 66 - 73; J. Santayana and Indian Philosophy. // Problems of Philosophy, 1992, N 4, P. 118 - 131; Vladimir Solovyov, Indian Philosophy and Some Problems of Comparative Philosophy. // History of Philosophy Yearbook ‘95. Moscow, 1996, P. 106 - 121; Classical Theory of Values: Prehistory, Problems, Results. // Alpha and Omega (Proceedings of the Bible Transmission Society) , 1998, ¹ 17, P. 295-315, ¹ 18, P. 283 - 308; Paul Hacker and the Patristic Treatment of Nonchristian Religions. // Alpha and Omega, 1999, ¹ 19, P. 242 - 256; Two Types of Ethical Theories. // Alpha and Omega, 1999, ¹ 22, P. 235 - 245, 2000, ¹ 23, P. 229 - 246; St. Philaret of Moscow as Reformist of Philosophical Teaching. // Problems of Philosophy, 2000, ¹ 9, P. 93 - 101; “Ontology”: Emergency of Philosophical Discipline. // History of Philosophy Yearbook ‘99. Moscow, 2001, P. 117 - 126; Christian Dogmatics and Philosophical rationality: Confrontation or Interaction? // The 9th Christmas Educational Conference : Theology and Philosophy: Some Respects of Dialogue. (25. 01.2001 Institute of Philosophy of Russian Academy of Sciences). Papers. Moscow, 2001, P. 185 - 223; Values or Goods? Concerning Theoretical Foundations of Some Practical Philosophy // Comparative Philosophy: Moral Philosophy in the Context of the Diversity of Cultures. Moscow, 2004, P. 165 - 181; Hans Kueng and his Project of World Ethos // Philosophical Problems, 2004, N 10, P. 65-73.
X. Editor:
The 9th Christmas Educational Conference : Theology and Philosophy: Some Respects of Dialogue. (25. 01.2001 Institute of Philosophy of Russian Academy of Sciences). Papers. Ed. by V.K. Schokhin Moscow, 2001, 222 P. (in Russian).
The 10th Christmas Educational Conference : Philosophical Ethics and Moral Theology (29. 01.2002 Institute of Philosophy of Russian Academy of Sciences). Papers. Ed. by V.K. Schokhin Moscow, 2003, 294 P. (in Russian).
XI. Affiliations:
A member of Moscow local department of the Kaliningrad’s Interregional Public Organization “Kantian Society”
A member of Russian Philosphical Society
XI. Address:
Dr. Vladimir Schokhin, Bolshaya Pirogovskaya str., 53/55, fl.73, Moscow, 119435, Russia.
E-mail: shokhin@ iph.ras.ru, tel. (095) 5597989
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