Epistemology and the philosophy of science and technology in contemporary Russian philosophy

a survey of the literature from the late 1980s to the present

Elena O. Trufanova

Vitaly G. Gorokhov

pp. 195-210

in: Edward Swiderski (ed), Philosophy in Russia today, Studies in East European Thought 66, 2014.

Abstrakt

The present article provides an overview of the key subjects of scholarly research in the areas of epistemology and the philosophy of science and technology conducted in Russia between the 1980s and the present. These disciplines are shown to be deeply rooted in Soviet philosophy and still developed by contemporary Russian philosophers, with both the historical experience of the Russian philosophical thought and foreign conceptions and schools, classical as well as modern, drawn upon. The corollary is that epistemology and the philosophy of science have been the most widely studied philosophical disciplines in Russia over the last couple of decades and retain this status to date.