Academic Divisions

Devision of Ontology, Theory of Knowledge and Logic

Head of the Division – Vladislav A. Lektorsky, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. in Philosophy, Main Research Fellow

• Department of the Theory of Knowledge
• Department of Logic
• Department of Social Epistemology
• Department of Philosophical Problems of Creativity
• Department of Methodology of the Interdisciplinary Study of Man

Devision of of Philosophy of Science and Technology

Head of the Division – Olga V. Popova, D.Sc. in Philosophy, Leading Research Fellow, Acting Deputy Director for Research

• Department of Interdisciplinary Problems in the Advance of Science and Technology
• Department of Philosophy of Natural Sciences
• Department of Philosophical Problems in Social Sciences and Humanities
• Department of Humanitarian Expertise and Bioethics

Devision of Social and Political Philosophy

Head of the Division – Alexey A. Kara-Murza, D.Sc. in Philosophy, Main Research Fellow

• Department of Social Philosophy
• Department of the Philosophical Problems of Politics
• Department of the History of Political Philosophy
• Department of the Philosophy of Russian History
• Department of the Philosophy of Culture

Devision of Philosophical Anthropology and Axiology

Head of the Division – Andrey V. Prokofiev, D.Sc. in Philosophy, Leading Research Fellow, Acting Deputy Director for Research

• Department of Ethics
• Department of Aesthetics
• Department of the Philosophy of Religion
• Department of Philosophical Anthropology

Division of History of Philosophy

Head of the Division – Andrei V. Smirnov, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. in Philosophy, Leading Research Fellow, Acting First Deputy Director for Research

• Department of the History of Russian Philosophy
• Department of Ancient Philosophy
• Department of the History of Western Philosophy
• Department of Contemporary Western Philosophy
• Department of Eastern Philosophies
• Department of Philosophy of Islamic World