Institute of Philosophy
of the Russian Academy of Sciences




  Cherkasov George Vladislavovich
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Cherkasov George Vladislavovich

  

 

 Date of birth: February 4, 2000, Yekaterinburg                                                       Orcid: 0000-0001-8095-2121

                                                                                                                           RSCI (SPIN): 9089-2191

                                                                                                                           Istina Researcher ID (IRID): 305124528

                                                                                                                           Web of Science Researcher ID: HLW-7930-2023


Education:


Master's degree: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of History of Foreign Philosophy (2023-2025)

Bachelor's degree: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of History of Foreign Philosophy (2017-2023)

Postgraduate student at the School of Philosophy and Cultural studies, Faculty of Humanities, National Research University Higher School of Economics (since 2025)

  

 

 

Main research interests

 

Metaphysics and epistemology, Metaphilosophy, Philosophy of science, Social ontology, Meta-ethics, and Philosophy of music

 

Professional appointments

 

Junior Research Fellow, Department of the Theory of Knowledge, Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, from 2025 to the present

 

Publications


Articles

  • Zombies: Conceivability, Possibility, Hazard // Date Palm Compote. 2024. No. 19. Pp. 4–76. (in collaboration with K.V. Anokhin et al) (in Russian)

  • Brain-reading Will Be Achieved. An Interview with David Dubrovsky // Date Palm Compote. 2024. No. 19. Pp. 78–90 (in collaboration with D.I. Dubrovsky) (in Russian)

  • Fictionalism, Indispensability, Cicadas: a Fictionalist Approach to the (In)dispensability of Mathematics and the Ontological Status of Abstract Objects // Vestnik Permskogo universiteta. Filosofia. Psihologia. Sociologia [Perm University Herald. Philosophy. Psychology. Sociology]. 2023. Issue 3. Pp. 404–413 (in collaboration  with V. Burian) (in Russian)


Scientific editing

 


Participation in scientific conferences

  • Idealism and realism: how much do we need answers to ontological questions?  International Conference "Metaphysics between Ontology, Logic and Subjectivity" (HSE, LLFP, 07.09.25).

  • Kit Fine and the return to the definitional theory of essence. (Session of the uAnalytiCircle seminar, UrFU, 2025).

  • Fictions without objects and objects without fictions. uAnalytiCon—2025: Fictitious objects (UrFU, Yekaterinburg, 2025).

  • New ways to the concept of essence. Conference "Analytical Philosophy" (IPL SB RAS, Novosibirsk, 2025).

  • Why doesn't Chalmers argue about abstract objects and argue about zombies?  Meeting of the scientific seminar "History of Philosophy: findings and interpretations. Analytical Metaphysics" (Moscow State University, 2024). Philosophy in the 21st Century Conference (Moscow State University, 2024).

  • Combining Epistemic and ethical normativity. Philosophy in the 21st Century Conference (Moscow State University, 2024).

  • Possible a priori knowledge and the thesis of disclosure. Never-ending conference (HSE, Moscow, 2024). uAnalytiCon–2024: Reference and Objectness (UrFU,Yekaterinburg, 2024).

  • Does the distinction between metametaphysics and metaontology cause problems? Conference "Man, Intelligence, Cognition" (IPL SB RAS, Novosibirsk, 2023).

  • Foundation in Modern Metaphysics. Summer School of Logic and Formal Philosophy (HSE, LLFP, Pushkin, 2023). uAnalytiCon Junior (UrFU, Yekaterinburg, 2023). Lomonosov Conference (Moscow State University, 2023).

  • Does existing mean being causally efficient? Conference "Languages and Meanings" (IPL SB RAS, Novosibirsk, 2022). Conference "Formal Philosophy" (HSE, LLFP, Moscow, 2022) (together with Burian V.V.).

  • The categorical question of the ontology of music. Music–Philosophy–Culture Conference: Dedicated to the 90th anniversary of S.A. Gubaidulina (Moscow State Conservatory, 2021). 


 Awards

  • 2024-2025 Personal grant from the Moscow Center for Consciousness Research

  • 2024 Vladimir Potanin Charitable Foundation Scholarship 

  • 2023 A.A. Zinoviev Scholarship for special achievements and achievements in the field of philosophy

  • 2023 The best report at the History of Foreign Philosophy sub-section. Lomonosov Conference 

  • 2017 Prize-winner of the Lomonosov Olympiad in Philosophy

E-mail: gech.cherkasov@gmail.com

https://t.me/oclaser