Institute of Philosophy
of the Russian Academy of Sciences




  Matvey Sysoev
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Matvey Sysoev

 

Сысоев Матвей Сергеевич
ORCID ID: 00000-0003-1152-577X

Web of Science ResearcherID: MCX-4238-2025

Scopus Author ID: 58555260100


Date and place of birth

1989, Voronezh, Russia

Education
  • 2006–2011 – Voronezh State University (VGU), Faculty of Law. Specialist Degree in Jurisprudence.
  • 2017–2019 – Voronezh State University (VGU), Faculty of Philosophy and Psychology. Master’s Degree in Ontology and Theory of Knowledge.
  • 2019–2023 – Voronezh State Pedagogical University (VSPU), Postgraduate Studies (PhD track) in Ontology and Theory of Knowledge.
Professional Development and Additional Training
  • 2019 – Online course “Philosophy and the Sciences: Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Sciences”, University of Edinburgh.
  • 2019 – Course “Theology” (151 hours), Summer Theological Institute, St. Philaret’s Christian Orthodox Institute (private continuing professional education institution).
  • 2021 – Online course “Language, Proof and Logic”, Stanford University.
  • 2021 – 1st Summer School of the International Laboratory for Logic, Linguistics and Formal Philosophy, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University).
  • 2022 – 2nd Summer School of the International Laboratory for Logic, Linguistics and Formal Philosophy, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University).
  • 2022 – All-Russian Summer School in Analytic Philosophy of Language and Logic, Faculty of Philosophy, National Research Tomsk State University (TSU).
Research Interests

Philosophy of the 20th–21st centuries: analytic philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, epistemology, philosophy of religion, panpsychism.


Professional Experience
  • 2011–2018 — Attorney, Voronezh Regional Bar Association.
  • 2019–2022 — Lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Humanities, N. N. Burdenko Voronezh State Medical University (VSMU).
  • 2023–2024 — Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Sociology and History, Voronezh State Technical University (VSTU).
  • 2023–2024 — Junior Research Fellow, Department of Contemporary Western Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences.
  • Since 2024 — Research Fellow, Department of Contemporary Western Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences.


Selected Publications


Essays
  • Thought Experiments: Problems of Identity and Efficacy // Philosophical Thought. 2025. No. 10. Pp. 60–86.
  • Problems of Self-Sufficiency and Substantiveness of Physicalism // Problems of Philosophy. 2025. No. 10. Pp. 56–66.
  • Religious Diversity and Local Naturalism // Philosophy of Religion: Analytic Studies. 2025. Vol. 9. No. 1. Pp. 32–46.
  • Alexei Kozlov’s Panpsychism in the Context of Contemporary Analytic Philosophy of Mind // Russian Philosophy. 2024. Vol. 2. No. 4. Pp. 62–83. DOI: 10.21146/2949-3102-2024-2-4-62-83.
  • The Problem of Defining Information and Contemporary Theories of Consciousness // Bulletin of Voronezh State University. Series: Philosophy. 2023. No. 4. Pp. 52–57.
  • On the Connection between the Hard Problem of Consciousness and the Combination Problem of Panpsychism // Bulletin of the Northern (Arctic) Federal University. Series “Humanities and Social Sciences”. 2023. No. 2. Pp. 91–102.
  • Fundamental Perception in Leibniz’s Philosophy and Contemporary Panpsychism // Epistemology & Philosophy of Science. 2022. Vol. 59. No. 3. Pp. 202–219.
  • William James’s Philosophy of Mind: Between Neutral Monism and Panpsychism // Philosophy. Journal of the Higher School of Economics. 2020. Vol. 4. No. 4. Pp. 249–265.
  • Semyon Frank’s Panentheism and the Problem of Evil // Pages: Theology, Culture, Education. 2020. Vol. 23. No. 1. Pp. 72–82.
  • Religious Experience and Testimony // Philosophy. Journal of the Higher School of Economics. 2020. Vol. 4. No. 4. Pp. 50–76.

Monographs and Book Chapters
  • James Ward // Philosophers of the 20th Century. Nomina Incognita. Ed. by I. D. Dzokhadze and A. M. Gaginsky. Moscow; St. Petersburg: Center for Humanitarian Initiatives, 2023. Pp. 64–85. 1.4 printer’s sheets.
  • James Ward on Religious Faith and Its Relation to Science // Topoi of Thought: Western Philosophy of the 19th–20th Centuries in Translations and Commentaries. Ed. by I. I. Blauberg and I. D. Dzokhadze. Moscow: Canon+ ROOI “Rehabilitation”, 2025. Pp. 88–93.
 
Academic and Organizational Activities
  • Head of the research seminar of the Department of Contemporary Western Philosophy (Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences): “Philosophy of Mind: Metaphysics and Cognitive Sciences”.
    https://iphras.ru/page26096302.htm
  • Member of the organizing committee of the inter-sectoral seminar “Contemporary Analytic Philosophy”, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences.
    In 2025, 17 sessions of the seminar were held.
    https://iphras.ru/page15377724.htm

e-mail

sysoev.paritet@gmail.com