Valeriya V. Sleptsova

Date and Place of birth

1988, Bishkek

ORCID: 0000-0002-4490-4066

ResearcherID: V-1873-2018 

RSCI Author ID:991170 

Education

• Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Moscow State University, 2012

Degrees

• Ph.D., Moscow State University, May 2016

Professional 
appointments

• Research Fellow, 2017 – present

Scientific interests

• Philosophy of Religion, Atheism, Philosophy of Judaism

Publications

• Theism and Atheism in the Debates of Contemporary Analytical Philosophers. M.: IF RAS. 2024. 232 p. (in Russian)

• Sleptsova V.V. Philosophical Interpretation of Bereshit (Ralbag on Creation of the Universe). Concept: philosophy, religion, culture. 2025. Vol.  9(3). P. 66-82. (In Russian)
• Ralbag Wars of the Lord. [On Miracles.] Book VI, Part 2, Chapters 9–12. Introduction, translation, commentaries by Valeriya V. Sleptsova. In Ishraq. Islamic Philosophy Journal. 2025, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 91–121. (in Russian)
• Sleptsova, V.V. “Dostoprimechatel’nosti evreiskoi mistiki: putevoditel’ poknige Zohar”[The sights of Jewish mysticism: a guide to the Zohar]. In Filosofskii zhurnal /Philosophy Journal. 2025. Vol. 18. No. 3. P. 186–194. (In Russian)
  
• Sleptsova V. Maimonides, Gersonides and Crescas on Prophets and Prophecy. In Voprosy Filosofii. 2024. Iss. 7. P. 172–183. (in Russian)
• Sleptsova V. Being-in-God, Goodness, Affects: once again about Spinoza’s Religion. In Philosophy of Religion: Analytic Researches. Vol. 7. No. 1. P. 143-153. (in Russian)
• Sleptsova V. Criticism of Positive Theistic Arguments in the Polemic of Theism and Atheism. In St. Tikhon’s University Review . Series I: Theology. Philosophy. Religious Studies.. 2022. Iss.101. P.82-95. (in Russian)
• Sleptsova V. Jewish Religious and Philosophic Thought through the Lens of Analytical Philosophy. In Concept: philosophy, religion, culture. 2022. Vol.6. No.3. P. 171-178. (in Russian)
• Sleptsova V. Dawkins Richard. In Nauchno-obrazovatel'nyi entsiklopedicheskyi portal Znaniya. 2022. URL: https://znaniya.org/c/dokinz-richard-ac6170 (in Russian)
• Sleptsova V. Harris Sam. In Nauchno-obrazovatel'nyi entsiklopedicheskiy portal Znaniya. 2022. URL: https://znaniya.org/c/kharris-sem-12b121 (in Russian)
• Sleptsova V. Schellenberg John. In Nauchno-obrazovatel'nyi entsiklopedicheskyi portal Znaniya. 2022. URL: https://znaniya.org/c/shellenberg-dzhon-51a063 (in Russian)
• Sleptsova V. Polemics on Concepts of Evil and Divine Providence in Jewish Medieval Philosophy: Cases of Gersonides and Crescas. In Ideas and Ideals.2021. Vol. 13. Iss. 3. Pt 1. P. 35-47. (in Russian)
• Korostichenko E., Sleptsova V. Organised Freethinking in Russia in Large Cities (with Moscow and St. Petersburg as Examples). In St. Tikhon’s University Review . Series I: Theology. Philosophy. Religious Studies. 2020. Vol. 92. P. 98–122. (in Russian)
• Sleptsova V. On Hasdai Crescas on Divine Omniscience and Human Choice: Comparative Metaphysics. In Philosophy of Religion: Analytic Researches. 2020. Vol. 4. No. 2. P. 129–155. DOI: 10.21146/2587-683X-2020-4-2-129-155. (in Russian)
• Sleptsova V. Concepts of “Possible” and “Necessary” in H. Crescas' Second Book of “Light of the Lord”. In Study of Religion (Religiovedenie). 2020. No. 3. P. 62-68. (in Russian)
• Sleptsova V. The Cosmological Argument in the Modern Polemic of Theism and Atheism (Debate of J. Haldane and J. Smart). In Proceedings of the Department of theology of SPbTHA. 2019. No. 1 (3). P.  112‒120. (in Russian)
• Sleptsova V.V. Cosmological argument by R. Gale and A. Pruss: advantages and problems. In St. Tikhon's University Review. Theology. Philosophy. Religious Studies. 2019. Iss. 82. P. 63‒73. (in Russian)
• Sleptsova V.V. Some Judaic attitudes to other religions. In Nations and religions of the Eurasia. 2019. No. 3 (20). P. 121‒127. (in Russian)
• Grimm S. (transl. by V.V.Sleptsova) Logika mistitsizma (The Logic of Mysticism). In Philosophy of Religion: Analytic Researches. 2018. Vol. 2, No.1. P. 67-81. (in Russian)
• Sleptsova V.V. The Tetragrammaton and 20-th Century Philosophers. In Philosophy of Religion: Analytic Reseachers. 2017. Vol.1, No.1. P. 148-153. (in Russian)
• Sleptsova V.V. Anglo-American Freethinking in XIX – early XX cent. and Its Adoption in XXI cent. In At the Source of Religious Studies: On the History of Religious Studies of the 19th and the first half of the 20th Centuries. Barashkov V.V., Damte D.S., Panin S.A.(eds). Moscow: LENAND, pp. 196–224. (in Russian)
• Sleptsova V.V. Theological Critique of The «New Atheism». In St. Tikhon’s University Review . Series I: Theology. Philosophy. Religious Studies. 2016. Vol. 3 (65). P. 112-125. (in Russian)
• Sleptsova V.V. Prospects of “New Atheism” Development. In Historical, Philosophical, Political and Law Sciences, Culturology and Study of Art. Issues of Theory and Practice. 2015. no 12. part 4. P. 167-171. (in Russian)
• Sleptsova V.V. Philosophical Origins and Characteristics of the "New Atheism". In Study of Religion (Religiovedenie). 2015. (in Russian)
  
• Sleptsova V.V. «New atheism» as a phenomenon of modern freethinking. In Moscow University Bulletin. Series 7. Philosophy. 2015. No 1. P. 107-118. (in Russian)
• Sleptsova V.V. Some features of Sam Harris’s criticism of religion. In Study of Religion (Religiovedenie). 2014. Vol. 4. P. 101-110. (in Russian)

Conference Presentations (selected)

• The Third Congress of Russian Scholars of Religion: “Academic Research and Conceptualization of Religion in 21 century: Traditions and New Challenge”, 2016 (Vladimir).
• Contemporary Issues of Religious Studies 2015 (Moscow)
• Lomonosov-2014, 2014 (Moscow)