Mikhail V. Shpakovskiy

Date and Place of birth

1995, Saint Petersburg

Education

• Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Moscow State University, 2019
• Ph.D., Moscow State University, April 2023

Professional 
appointments

• Research Fellow, 2024 - present
  

   

• Junior Research Fellow, 2019-2024
  

Scientific interests

• Patristics (especially Ancient Russian Patristics), Medieval Cosmology and Intellectual Culture, Analytic Philosophy and Theology.

Publications

Books

• Lytvynenko V.V., Shpakovskiy M.V. Zinoviy Otenskiy and the Trinitarian Controversy in Sixteenth-Century Russia. Introduction, texts and translation. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2023. 506 p. ISBN 978-90-04-53805-4

Papers

• Shpakovskiy M. Vospriyatiya, eidosy i bozhestvennye idei: opyt analiticheskogoprochteniya epistemologii, filosofii vospriyatiya i metafiziki arhiepiskopa Nikanora (Brovkovicha) [Perceptions, Eidos, and Divine Ideas: an Experience of Analytic Reading of Archbishop Nikanor (Brovkovich)’s Epistemology, Philosophy of Perception and Metaphysics]. In Otechestvennaya filosofia [National Philosophy]. 2024. Vol. 2. No. 4. P. 84–129. (in Russian)
  
• Shpakovskiy M.V. The defence of the A. Plantinga’s Free will defence. In Philosophy Journal. 2024. Vol. 17. No. 1. P. 50–72. (in Russian)
• Shpakovskiy M. A Common Avicennism. A Review of: Zarepour, M.S. Necessary Existence and Monotheism. An Avicennian Account of the Islamic Conception of Divine Unity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 70 pp. In Ishraq. Islamic Philosophy Journal. 2024. Vol. 2 No. 2. P. 78-117. (in Russian)
• Shpakovskiy M. The Concept of the Essence-Energy Distinction in Old Russian Translated Literature. In National Philosophy. 2023. Vol. 1. No. 1. P. 43–63. (in Russian)
• Shpakovskiy M. Natural Virtues, Truthful Mind and The Grades of The Spiritual Knowledge In The Mystical and Spiritual Teaching of Elder Artemy Troitsky. In St. Tikhon's University Review. Theology. Philosophy. Religious Studies. 2023. Vol. 107. P. 62–85. (in Russian)
• van Invagen P. Meta-ontology. Transl., comment. by Shpakovskiy M. V., Pavlov A. S. In History of Philosophy Yearbook / Istoriko-filosofskii ezhegodnik. 2023. Iss. 38. P. 371-400. (in Russian)
• Shpakovskiy M. V., Pavlov A. S. Peter van Inwagen’s Meta-ontology. Translators’ Foreword. In History of Philosophy Yearbook / Istoriko-filosofskii ezhegodnik. 2023. Iss. 38. P. 352–370. (in Russian)
• Shpakovskiy M. Neokalam and Modern Philosophy of Science: Alliance or Confrontation? A Review of: Altaie, M.B. God, Nature and Cause: Essays on Islam and Science. Dubai: Kalam Research & Media, 2016, 242 pp. In Ishraq. Islamic Philosophy Journal. 2023. Vol. 1. No. 2. P. 103-127. (in Russian)
• Shpakovskiy M. Peter Geach. In Philosophers of the 20th Century. Nomina incognita. Eds.: I.D. Dzhokhadze, A.M. Gaginsky. M.; St. Petersburg: Center for Humanitarian Initiatives Publ. 2023. P. 126-148. (in Russian)
• Shpakovskiy M. Ivan Begichev's Theology of Symbol in His Message on Visible Image of God. In Old Russia. The Questions of Middle Ages [Drevnyaya Rus'. Voprosy Medievistiki].  2022. No. 3 (89). P.218-229. (in Russian)
• Shpakovskiy M. Archpriest Avvakum's Doctrine on the Organisation and Nature of Human Soul. In Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Ser.7. Philosophia. 2022. No. 2. P. 3-18. (in Russian)
• Shpakovskiy M. Epistle by Prince Semyon Shakhovsky against Apollinarianism. In Paleorosia. Ancient Rus in time, in personalities, in ideas. 2022. No. 1 (17). P. 132-150. (in Russian)
• Shpakovskiy M. Natural theology of Zinovy Otensky in the context of the Old Russian philosophical booklore. In St. Tikhon's University Review. Theology. Philosophy. Religious Studies. 2020. Iss. 92. P. 35‒56. (in Russian)
• Shpakovskiy M. Joseph Volotsky's Attitude to Cosmological Problems. In Old Russia. The Questions of Middle Ages. 2020. No. 4 (82). P. 130‒140. (in Russian)
• Shpakovskiy M. Istina and Pravda in Russian Medieval Intellectual Tradition. In Finikovyi Kompot. 2019. No. 14. P. 98‒109. (in Russian)
  
• Shpakovskiy M. Triadology of Joseph Volotsky. In St. Tikhon's University Review. Theology. Philosophy. Religious Studies. 2019. Iss. 85. P. 52-70. (in Russian)
• Shpakovskiy M. Philosophical roots of the mystical experience of Eleazar of Anzer and archpriest  Avvakum. In Solovyev studies. 2018. Vol. 1(57). P. 183. (in Russian)
• Shpakovskiy M. Circle of love. To the Interpretation of the Archpriest Avvakum Figure from the N. I. Zavoloko Collection. In Ancient Rus: in time, in personality, in concepts. Vol. 8. Saint Petersburg. 2017. P. 409-415. (in Russian)
• Shpakovskiy M. Insufficiency of natural theology. In Date palm compote. № 12. Moscow. 2017. P. 73-77. (in Russian)
• Shpakovskiy M. Ideas of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in the Prologue of Archpriest Avvakum «Life». In Kirik of Novgorod and culture of Ancient Rus. Vol. 4.Veliky Novgorod. 2017. P. 420-432. (in Russian)
• Shpakovskiy M. The Views of Archpriest Avvakum on Divine Names and Its Neoplatonic Roots. In Ancient Rus: in time, in persons, in concepts. Vol. 6. Saint Petersburg, Kazan. 2016. P. 472-485. (in Russian)