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  Kirill V. Karpov
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Kirill V. Karpov

Karpov K.V.

Date and Place of birth

 

1984, Moscow

ORCID: 0000-0002-0223-7410

ResearcherID: N-2510-2016

Scopus Author ID: 56465843500

RSCI Author ID: 594485 

Education

 

Philosophy, State Humanities University, 2006

 

 

Degrees

 

Ph.D., Institute of Philosophy of Russian Academy of Sciences, December 2009
Professional 
appointments

Senior Research Fellow, 2010 – present

Scientific interests

Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion

 
Courses Taught
  • "Contemporary Philosophy of Religion". State Academic University for the Humanities.
  • "Key Problems of Analytical Philosophy of Religion". State Academic University for the Humanities.

Publications (selected)
  • Karpov K. (transl., introd., comment.) Bonaventure. Breviloquium. Sergiyev Posad: Moscow Theological Academy Publishing House. 2025. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K. The modal critique of the ontological argument. Thomas Aquinas vs Anselm of Canterbury. In Studia Religiosa Rossica: Russian Journal of Religion. 2025.Vol. 4. P. 86-101. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K. The “Hic Homo Intelligit” Controversy: Averroes versus Aquinas A Review of: Ogden, S. Averroes on Intellect. From Aristotelian Origins to Aquinas’s Critique. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 281 pp. In Ishraq. Islamic Philosophy Journal. 2025. Vol. 3. No. 2. P. 103-117. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K. Walter Berschin. Griechisch-lateinisches Mittelalter. Von Hieronymus zu Nikolaus von Kues: Translated into Russian by A. Vinogradov. Мoscow: AST Publ., 2024. 416 pp. ISBN 978-5-17-165601-0. In History of Philosophy Yearbook Istoriko-Filosofskii Ezhegodnik. 2025. Vol. 40. P. 48–53. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K. V.D. Kudryavtsev-Platonov’s Anti-Skepticism in the Treatise “On the Basic Principles of Philo-sophical Knowledge” and Evidentialist Objection to Religious Beliefs. In Otechestvennaya filosofia[National Philosophy]. 2024. Vol. 2. No. 4. P. 7–25. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K. On normativity of Clifford’s Principle. In Philosophy Journal. 2024. Vol. 17. No. 4. P. 23–39. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K. Falsafah and Evidentialism. A Review of: Booth, A. Analytic Islamic Philosophy. New York & London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 222 pp. In Ishraq. Islamic Philosophy Journal. 2024. Vol. 2. No. 1. P. 101–116. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K.V. Review: Wisdom in Christian Tradition: The Patristic Roots of Modern Russian Sophiology. By MARCUS PLESTED. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022 Pp. xiv + 288 $105.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-0-19-286322-5. In The Thomist. 2024 Oct. P. 699-702.
  • Karpov K. The Problem of Epistemic Disagreement in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion Part II. In Voprosy Filosofii. 2023. Iss. 11. P. 195-203. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K. The Problem of Epistemic Disagreement in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion Part I. In Voprosy Filosofii. 2023. Iss. 10. P. 188-197. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K. Philosophical Theology as a Practice. William Alston’s Approach. In Philosophy of Religion: Analytic Researches. 2023. Vol. 7. No. 2. P. 98-114. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K. The Problem of the Beginning of Knowledge: Reflections on the Voluntarist Model of Justification of Theistic Belief. In Proceedings of the Department of Theology of the Saint Petersburg Theological Academy. 2023. No. 4 (20). P. 174–187. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K. (transl.) Alston W.P. Vospriyatie Boga. Epistemologiya religioznogo opyta. Transl. by K. V. Karpov; ed. by A. M. Gaginskiy. Moscow: Akademicheskii proekt, 2022. 471 p. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K. Skepticism of Antitheodicy and Evidential Argument from Evil. In Chelovek. 2022. Vol.33. No.4. P. 42-57. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K. Evidentialism, the Problem of Evil and the Hypothesis of a Simple God of Theism. In Philosophy of Religion: Analytic Researches. 2022. Vol. 6. No. 2. P.19-27. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K.Christian Philosophy of W.P. Alston. In Alston W.P. Vospriyatie Boga. Epistemologiya religioznogo opyta. Transl. by K. V. Karpov; ed. by A. M. Gaginskiy. Moscow: Akademicheskii proekt, 2022. P. 9–26. 471 p. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Russian Reception of Aquinas. In The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas. Ed. by Matthew Levering and Marcus Plested. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. P. 329-342.
  • Karpov K. "To Believe is to Think with Assent" and Doxastic Voluntarism. In Proceedings of the Department of Theology of the Saint Petersburg Theological Academy. 2021. No. 2 (10). P. 33–46. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K. Epistemic Virtue of Wisdom and Evidentialism. In Epistemology & Philosophy of Science. 2021. Vol. 58. No. 4. P. 196–208. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K. Religious epistemology of Alexander of Hales and wisdom as a sense of taste. In St. Tikhon's University Review. Theology. Philosophy. Religious Studies. 2020. Vol. 90. P. 49‒67. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K. Is Wisdom an Epistemic Virtue? In Epistemology & Philosophy of Science. 2020. Vol. 57. No. 2. P. 226‒230.(in Russian)
  • Karpov K.Philosophy of religion and philosophical theology: some ideas on drawing the demarcation. In European Journal for Philosophy of Religion. 2019. Vol. 11. No. 4. P. 185‒196.(in Russian)
  • Karpov K. The Principle of Distrust to Thoughts Between Deontology and Pragmatism. In Filosofiya. Zhurnal Vysshey shkoly ekonomiki (Philosophy. Journal of the Higher School of Economics). 2019. Vol. III. № 3. P. 292‒306. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K.V. Epistemology of disagreement and tolerance with respect of religious diversity (pluralism). In Philosophy of Religion: Analytic Researches. 2019. Vol. 3. No. 2. P. 5‒17. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K.V. Metaphysical Presuppositions of William Craig’s Kalām Cosmological Argument, its Critics and Expansion. In Issues of Theology. 2019. Vol. 1. No. 2. P. 252–267.(in Russian)
  • Karpov K.V. The Basic Concepts of Bonaventure’s Mystical Theology(The Triple Way). In Philosophy of Religion: Analytic Researches. 2018. Vol. 2. no. 1. P. 82-93. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K.V. Privationist Theodicy and the Doctrine of Transcendentals: Francisco Suarez on Goodness and Evil. In St. Tikhon's University Review. Theology. Philosophy. Religious Studies. 2018. Vol. 78. P. 107-118. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K.V. Convertibility of Transcendentals: the Paradigm of Albert the Great. In Problems of philosophy (Voprosy Filosofii), 2018, no. 5. P. 190-199. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K.V. Epistemology of religious belief as an essential part of philosophy of religion. In Epistemology & Philosophy of Science. 2017. Vol. 53, no.3. P. 8-18. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K.V. Giles of Rome on the limits of metaphysics as a science. In Philosophy Journal. 2017. Vol.10, no.1. P. 23-34. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K.V. Metaphysics of the Cosmological Argument and Some Possible Tasks of Theistic Proofs. In St. Tikhon's University Review. Theology. Philosophy. Religious Studies. 2017. Vol. 73. P. 41-52. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K.V. The Basic Aspects of Medieval Transcendental Philosophy. In Problems of philosophy (Voprosy Filosofii), 2016, no. 11. P. 204-214. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K.V. Indivisio in transcendental thought of Philip the Chancellor, Alexander of Hales and Bonaventure. In Review the Russian Christian Academy for the humanities, 2016. Vol. 17, no. 2. P. 48-58. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K.V. Hylomorphism in Modern Analytical Philosophy. In St. Tikhon's University Review. Theology. Philosophy. Religious Studies. 2016. Vol. 6 (68). P. 78-93. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K.V. Lectio divina, meditatio, imitatio as Basic Categories of Medieval Spirituality. In European Journal for Philosophy of Religion. 2015. Vol. 7(2). P. 125–136.
  • Karpov K.V. Religio Augustini: Augustine and Spirituality in the Augustinian Order. In State, Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide, 2015, Vol.33, no.4. P. 375-390. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K.V., Malevich T.V. Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies in Modern-Day Russia. In Studies in East European Thought. 2015, Vol. 66, no. 3-4. P. 227-244. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K.V. Breviloquium: its genre and Bonaventure’s method of philosophical research. In Review the Russian Christian Academy for the humanities, 2014. Vol. 15, no. 4. P. 66-74. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K.V. Epistemological Presuppositions for the Theistic Philosophy of A. Plantinga. In St. Tikhon's University Review. Theology. Philosophy. Religious Studies. 2014. Vol. 4 (54). P. 64-79. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K.V. Doctrines of Predestination in Medieval Philosophical Theology. In State, Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide, 2014. Vol. 32, no.1. P. 228-250. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K.V. Theology as a Science in the Philosophicaland Theological Thought of Albert the Great. In Philosophy of Religion. An Almanac. 2013. P. 333-350. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K.V. Petrus Aureolus’ Teaching on Predestination. In St. Tikhon's University Review. Theology. Philosophy. Religious Studies. 2012. Vol. 5 (43). P. 7-22. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K.V. Status of Theological Knowledge in the Philosophyof Gregory of Rimini. In Philosophy of Religion. An Almanac. 2011. no. 3. P. 298-309. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K.V. The Problem of Predestination and the Status of Future Contingents in the Theology of Gregory of Rimini. In The Bulletin of Moscow University. Series 7. Philosophy (1). Moscow, 2010. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K.V. The Doctrine of Absolute and Ordinate Power of God in Medieval Natural Theology. In The Bulletin of I. Kant Russian State University (6). Kaliningrad, 2009. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K.V. The Controversy About the Divine Predestination in the IX Century. In Philosophy and Culture (3). Moscow, 2008. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K.V. Gregory of Rimini on the Status of Theology. In Philosophy of Religion. An Almanac 2010–2011. (in Russian)
  • Karpov K.V. Gregory of Rimini’s Prologue to the Sentences Commentary. Questio 5, articulus 4. Translation and comments. In Philosophy of Religion. An Almanac 2010–2011. (in Russian)

Conference Presentations
  • “Some Notes on the Problem of Relation between Faith and Reason and Possible Demonstrations of God’s Existence”. Presented at Summer School in Philosophy of Religion. July, 2011. Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, USA.
  • “The Problem of Predestination in the Theology of Gregory of Rimini”. Presented at the 22nd meeting of the Theoretical Seminar of the Institute of Philosophy of Russian Academy of Sciences "Philosophy of Religion, Theology, Religious Studies". December, 2008. Institute of Philosophy of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation.
  • “Gottschalk of Orbais and the Controversy about the Divine Predestination in the IX Century”. Presented at the Christmas workshop "The Problem of Human Freedom in the Philosophical and Theological Discourse". January, 2008. Institute of Philosophy of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation.

Е-mail: kirill.karpov@gmail.com

 
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