Vjacheslav Stepin

 

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Stepin Vyacheslav Semionovitch, Professor, Ph.D., full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor Emeritus of the Moscow State Lomonosov University. Born on the 19-th of August 1934 in Navlya (Russia). 1956 - graduated from the Philosophical faculty of the Byelorussian State university of Minsk. When studying there attended lectures and passed exams on theoretical physics at the Faculty of physics of the above university. 1956-1959 - post-graduate courses of the Byelorussian University. 1959-1972 - an associate professor at the chair of philosophy of the Byelorussian University. He is a professor since 1979, the head of the chair of philosophy of the same university. Prof. V. Stepin is working in Moscow at first as the Director of the Institute of Natural sciences and techniques history attached to the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now the Russian Academy of Sciences) (1987) and since 1988 till now as the Director of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is the head of the chair of philosophical anthropology of Moscow State Lomonosov University. Prof. V. Stepin is one of the founders and directors (Department of philosophy) of the Russian State University for the Humanities, which was formed as the first institution integrating academic science and high school.

In 1987 he was elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, in 1994 – a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (philosophy of science). He is an honorary consulting professor at the Institute of International Law and Economics (Honkong, 1994), honorary doctor of the university of Karlsruhe (Germany, 1999), foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic Belarus (1998), of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2000), president of the Russian Philosophical Society (2001). In 2001 he has been elected an active member of the International Institute of Philosophy (Paris).

Prof. V. Stepin is a member of editorial boards of the journals «Priroda», «Voprosi filosofii», «Chelovek» (Moscow), of the «Journal for General Philosophy of Science» (Dordrecht, Boston, London), he is the chairman of the editorial board of the series «From the history of the Russian philosophy» which since 1988 has been publishing the works of Russian philosophers such as N. Berdyaev, S. Frank, P. Florensky and others.

Prof. V. Stepin is the author of over 300 works including 18 monographs. He is an organizer and leader of large-scale joint research programmes with foreign universities and research centers (USA, Germany, France, China) on the problems of philosophy of science and techniques, globalization and basic values of culture.

Main books of V.S. Stepin published in foreign languages:

Tieteellisen teorian muoostus.Kustannuslike Progress. Suomennos; М., 1983        

Der Ernstfall auch in Russland. Russische Philosophen diskutieren mit Gunter Rohrmoser. Verlag Gesellschaft fur Kulturwissenschaft, Biltigheim /Baden 1997.                                                         

Civilization. Science. Culture. IFRAN – Verl., Karlsruhe-Moscow, 2002             

El saber teorico, Varias, Madrid, 2003

Prospects of Human Civilization

Foundations of Science and Their Socio-Cultural Determination