Department of Humanitarian Expertise and Bioethics

Head of the Department  – D.Sc. in Philosophy Olga V. Popova

Main Research Areas:

The Sector for Humanitarian Examinations and Bioethics was established in 2006 as a unit of the Department for Complex Problems of Human Studies, headed by Professor B.G. Yudin, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Doctor of Philosophical Sciences. Currently (in accordance with the 2020-2025 plan), the sector's main research direction is the following theme:

Science, Technology, and Society: Strategies of Interaction and Development (a mega-theme within the state assignment, headed by Academician V.A. Lektorsky, RAS, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences).

Sub-themes:

1. Philosophical Foundations of Bioethics (Heads: P.D. Tishchenko and O.V. Popova): philosophical analysis of human transformations in the context of modern technoscience development; investigation of the philosophical principles of interaction between humans and biomedicine in the context of technoscientific knowledge; socio-humanitarian support for the development of biomedical technologies, humanitarian examination of technological risks in modern civilization; research into the philosophical foundations of bioethics, philosophical analysis of the development of applied areas in modern biomedicine.

2. Philosophical Problems of Virtual Reality (Head: M.A. Pronin): philosophical problems of virtuality studies, virtual reality as a philosophical category and a theoretical problem.

3. Research on the Scholarly Legacy of Academician I.T. Frolov (Heads: G.L. Belkina, M.I. Frolova): comprehensive research on the philosophical legacy of Academician I.T. Frolov; the fragility of life in the new reality; alternatives to digitalization: global challenges and civilizational responses; human reproduction: population explosion, reproductive technologies and gender crossroads, depopulation strategies.

Faculty: 

• Tishchenko Pavel Dmitrievich, D.Sc. in Philosophy, Main Research Fellow
• Galina L. Belkina, Ph.D. in Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow
• Roman R. Belyaletdinov, Ph.D. in Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow
• Maria I. Frolova, Research Fellow
• Andrei A. Voronin, D.Sc. in Philosophy, Leading Research Fellow
• Sofya Lavrentyeva, Junior Research Fellow
• Farida G. Mailenova, D.Sc. in Philosophy, Leading Research Fellow
• Olga V. Popova, D.Sc. in Philosophy, Leading Research Fellow, Head of the Department
• Michail A. Pronin, Ph.D. in Medicine, Senior Research Fellow
• Valentina P. Rozova, Senior Laboratory Assistant
• Aleksei Antipov, Ph.D. in Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow
• Turkova Anastasiia, Junior Research Fellow

Associated Reserch Fellows:

• Ivan A. Ivanyushkin, Ph.D. in Philosophy

• Vyacheslav Ivanovich Moiseev, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Researcher of the sector.

• Oleg Nikolaevich Raev, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Researcher of the sector.

Postgraduate Students:

Internet site of the Department -  "Bioethical Forum"

Research Group "Virtualistics"

• Michail A. Pronin – Ph.D. in Medicine, Head of Research Group, Academic secretary of Institute Of Philosophy RAS
• Valentina P. Rozova, Senior Laboratory Assistant

Contacts:

Address: Goncharnaya 12/1, Moscow, 109240, Russian Federation

Telephone: +7 (495) 697-90-67.

E-mail: bioethics@mail.ru