Education:

1983 Doctor of the Philosophical Sciences, Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Moscow).

1968 Candidate of the Philosophical Sciences, Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Moscow).

1964 M.A. in Physics, Azerbaijan State University (Baku), Department of Physics.

Teaching Experience:

1995 -00 Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Philosophy ("Philosophy and Science in Russia", "Philosophy of Space and Time", "Philosophy of Science", "Metaphysics and Science").

1985-91 Lecturer for postgraduates at the Institute of Philosophy AS USSR (Philosophical Problems of Space and Time)

1983 -85 Professor of Philosophy, Moscow Institute of Aviation Engineering ("Philosophy of Science", "Evolution of Scientific Conceptions").

Related Professional Experience:

1992 -99 Fellow in Russian Research Center, Harvard University,

1991 -92 Visiting Scholar in Russian Research Center, Harvard University

1991 -95 Member of International Editorial Board of the International Interdisciplinary Journal "Time and Society"(England).

1986 -95 Leading Scientific Researcher , Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

1983 -86 Senior Scientific Researcher, Institute of Philosophy AS USSR.

1968 -83 Scientific Researcher, Institute of Philosophy AS USSR.

1964 -67 Postgraduate, Institute of Philosophy AS USSR.

Related Professional Experience:

1991 Translator of the book of L.Graham "Science, Philosophy and

Human Behavior in the Soviet Union" (Columbia University Press, 1987),

which was published in "Izdatel’stvo Politicheskoi Literaturi" in Moscow.

Awards and Grants

1993, May Grant from American Institute of Physics for visiting and researching in the Niels Bohr Library in New York.

1991 -92 Fellowship of Russian Research Center, Harvard University.

1988, Oct. Grant from the IREX (International Research & Exchange Board) for visiting and researching in Boston University.

Memberships:

American Philosophical Association

International Society for the Study of Time (USA)

Publications:

Books:

Actuality of History: Scientist and Ideology. Moscow, "Znanie", 1990 (in Russian)

Philosophy and Physics in the USSR. Moscow, "Znanie", 1989 (in Russian)

Conceptions of Space and Time: Sources, Evolution, Directions. MIT-Press,

Cambridge, Mass., London, England, 1986.

Physics in Its Way to Unity. Moscow, "Znanie", 1985 (in Russian)

Conception of Space and Time: Sources, Evolution, Directions. "Nauka", 1982.

Space and Time in the Physical Knowledge. Moscow, "Misl'", 1982 (in Russian)

Continuity and Discontinuity of Space and Time . Moscow, "Nauka",1974.(in Russian)

Articles:

The End of the Millennium as a Philosophical Problem: the Russian Case. - In: Time at the Millennium. Changes and Continuities. Tenth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time. Abstracts of Papers. The Evangelische Academie Tutzing, Bavaria/Germany, 1998.

Scientific Revolutions in the Postnonclassical Science.- In: The Problems of Methodology of the Postnonclassical Science. Ed. By E.A.Mamchur. "Institute of Philosophy RAN", 1997, pp.41-48.

Scientific and Religious World Views in the System of Culture. - In:

Physics in the System of Culture. Ed. by Y.V. Sachkov. "Institute of

Philosophy RAN", Moscow, 1996, pp. 197-215 (with L. Bazenov).

Philosophical Notion of Matter and the Development of Physics of

Elementary Particles. -In: Philosophical Problems of Physics of

Elementary Particles (after 30 years). Moscow, "Institute of Philosophy

RAN", 1995, pp. 24-41.

Chaos, Space, Self-Organization. -In: Self-Organization and Science.

"Institute of Philosophy RAN", Moscow,1994, pp.275-305.

Was Nestor Chronicler a Rusophobe? - Stolitsa, No.14, 1994 (Moscow)

Soviet Science Under the Pressure of Ideology. - The Soviet and

Post-Soviet Review, vol.20, No.2 - 3, 1993

Nationalism, not Economics, Threatens a Russian Brain Drain. - Harvard

International Review, vol.XVI, No.1, Fall 1993.

Transformations of Kronos.- In: Time and Process. Interdisciplinary Issues. The Study of Time VII. Eds. by J.T.Fraser and Lewis Rowell. International Universities Press, Inc. Madison, Connecticut, 1993.

Did the Atomic Bomb Save the Soviet Physics?- Priroda, No.1, 1991,(Moscow).

An American Looks at the Soviet Science.- Biology and Philosophy, No.6,1991

Newton's Mechanics and the Formation of the Mechanical Research Program. - In: Newton and the Philosophical Problems of the Physics of the XX Century. Eds. by M.D.Akhundov and S.V.Illarionov. "Nauka", Moscow, 1991.

Development of the Mechanical Research Program.- In: Xth All-Union Conference of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Section 11-13. Minsk, 1990.

Phenomenon of the Ideologized Science.- In: Xth All-Union Conference of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Section 1-5, Minsk, 1990.

Evolution of the Scientific Pictures of the World.- In: Philosophy, Natural Sciences, Social Development. "Nauka", 1989.

Formation of the Relativistic Conceptions of Space and Time.- In: Panta Rei. Studia z marksistowskiej filosofii nauk przyrodniczych, III. Wroclaw-Warszawa-Krakow-Gdansk-Lodz, 1988 (Poland).

Problems of the Development of Science and its Reflection in the Methodology of Science.- In: VIII International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Abstracts, vol.5, part 3. Moscow, 1987.

Methodology of Scientific Revolutions and the Development of Physics.- In: The Nature of Scientific Discovery. "Nauka", Moscow, 1986 (with S.Illarionov).

Succession of the Physical Research Programes.- Voprosi Filosofii, No.6, 1986.

Evolution of Space and Time Notions in Modern Physics. - Scientia

(Milano, Italy), An.LXXIX, No.1-4, vol. 120, 1985.

Time in the Physical Knowledge.-In: Idea of Time. Sofia (Bulgaria), 1985.

Space and Time: from Myth to Science.- Priroda, No.8, 1985.

Einstein and the Development of the Concept of Space.-In: Einstein and the Philosophical Problems of 20th-century Physics. Progress pub.,Moscow,1983 (with I.Akchurin).

Ways of the Development of Physical Theory and Scientific Revolution.- In: VIIth Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Abstracts. Sections 6, 8-13. Moscow, 1983.

Theoretical and Empirical Aspects in the Development of Physical Theory.- Filosofska misl, book 10, 1982 (Sofia, Bulgaria).

Hierarchical Axiomatic of Physical Theories and the Unity of Physics.- In: VIth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Abstracts. Sections 8-9. Hannover, 1979.

Mathematisation of Modern Physics and the Status of Spatial-Temporal Description.- In: XVIth World Congress of Philosophy. Dusseldorf, 1978.

Space and Time in the Structure of Physical Theory.- Scientia, vol.5-8, No.113, 1978.

Relativity to Systems of Abstraction and Complementarity.- In: V International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Contributed Papers. London, Ontario, Canada, 1975.

Atomism and Continuity in the Ancient Greek Philosophy.- Voprosi Filosofii ,No.8, 1975.

Philosophical Analysis of the Contemporary Development of the Conception of Continuum.- In: Proceedings of the XVth World Congress of Philosophy. 17th to 22nd September 1973. Varna (Bulgaria). Vol.5. Sofia, 1975.

The Nature of Science: the Russian Lesson.- 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. August 20-26, 1999. Cracow, Poland.

Science in Russia and the USSR.- New England

Slavic Association. Annual Conference, April 10-11, 1992;

The Ideological Relationship to Science in the USSR and Russia.- Joint

US-Soviet Workshops on the Social and Political Dimensions of Science and

Technology. MIT,1991;

How the Problem of Revolutions in Physics Came into the Methodology of

Science.- Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science.- Boston, 1988.

Citizenship:

Permanent Resident in the USA

Languages:

Russian (native), English (fluent).

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