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  Olga Stolyarova
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Olga Stolyarova

Olga Stoliarova, PhD, Doctor of Science

 

+7(916) 973-6809 

Russia, Moscow 117133,

Akademika Vargi ul., 22 -25

Date of Birth: September, 5 1970                        

Education and Professional Development

2022 Institute of Philosophy, RussianAcademy of Sciences (Moscow): Doctor of Philosophical Sciences (Specialization: Ontology and Theory of Knowledge. Dissertation: The Return of Metaphysics as a Subject of Historical Ontology).

2000  Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow): Candidate of Philosophical Sciences (Ph.D. in Philosophy) (Specialization: History of Philosophy. Dissertation: Phenomenological Critique of the Scientific-Technological Civilization).

1995  Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow): Diploma (Specialitet). (School for Museum Studies, Department of the History and Theory of Culture; major in Comparative Studies of World Religions, minor in Philosophy).

 

Employment

2011 – present Leading Research Fellow, Department of Social Epistemology,Institute of Philosophy, RussianAcademyofSciences,Moscow.

2011- 2020 Associate Professor (Docent), Department of Theoretical Sociology and Epistemology, Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology, The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA),Moscow.

2012-2014 Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Research and Educational Center (REC PAST) “Policy Analysis and Study of Technologies”,Tomsk State University,Tomsk.

2003 – 2011 Associate professor (Docent), Department of Ontology, Logic, and Theory of Knowledge, Faculty of Philosophy, State University– Higher School of Economics,Moscow.

1999 – 2003 Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Instituteof Scientific Informationfor Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences (INION RAN), Moscow

 

Teaching

2002-2019

Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod, Department of Sociology Tomsk State University, Tomsk, State University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Moscow State University, Moscow

Courses: Science and Technology Studies: A Philosophical Introduction, Historical Epistemology, Concepts of Modern Natural Sciences, Science and Technology Studies: Preliminary Results and Prospects, Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science, History of Philosophy, Social Philosophy of Science

 

 

Publications (selected):

Books:

(in Russian)

 Author:

  • The Return of Metaphysics as a Fact. Moscow: Russian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, 2019. 199 p.
  • Science Studies from the Perspective of ‘Ontological Turn”. Moscow: RuScience, 2015. 189 p.
Collective Monographs:

  • A.A. Argamakova, P.S. Kysliy, eds. Communicative Foundations of Scientific Rationality. M-SPb: CHI, 2023.
  • E.V. Vostrikova, I.T. Kasavin, eds. The Mission of a Scientist in the Modern World: Science as a Vocation and a Profession,Moscow: Russian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, 2021.
  • A. O. Kostina, E.V. Maslanov, eds. Union of Science and Humanism,Moscow: Russian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, 2021.
  • L.V. Shipovalova, ed. Historical Epistemology: Problems and Perspectives.Moscow: ROIFN, 2020.
  • A. A. Argamakova et al., eds. Social and Digital Studies of Science,Moscow: Russian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, 2019.
  • I. T. Kasavin, T. D. Sokolova, eds. Social philosophy of science. Ideas and Discussions.  Moscow: Russian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, 2018.
Over 15 collective monographs.

Editor:

  • Ontologies of Artifacts: An Interrelation between ‘Natural’ and ‘Artificial’ Components of the Lifeworld. Moscow: Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration: Delo, 2012. 455 p.
  • Progress in the Socio-Humanitarian Perspective. Moscow: Russian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, 2022. 145 p.
  • Guest Editor, Epistemology & Philosophy of Science, Special Issue “Science in a Free Society. On Paul Feyerabend’s Intellectual Legacy”, 2024.

Articles and other academic publications:

(in English)

  • “Are the Ideals of Rationality Rational? On the Experimenter’s Regress, the Theoretician’s Regress, and the Epistemologist’s Progress”, RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2024, vol. 28(1), pp. 136—147, https://doi.org/10.22363/2313-2302-2024-28-1-136-147

  • “The Charisma of Reason During the Re-enchantment of the World”, Social Epistemology. 2022. Open Access. (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02691728.2021.2000665?tab=permissions&scroll=top)

  • “Milieu, embodiment, and cultural studies of science. Comment on Rom Harre’s ‘The social ingredients in all ways of acquiring reliable knowledge’”, Epistemology & Philosophy of Science, 2016, no 1, pp. 78-83.
  •  “The Ontological Significance of the History of Science”, Journal of the Philosophy of History, 2015, vol. 9, no 1, pp. 140-165.
  • “Objectivity: A History without a Hero: An Essay Review of Daston L. and P. Galison’s Objectivity”, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 2010, vol. 41, no 2, pp. 395-403.
  • ‘The First STS Course in Russia: The Author’s Preliminary Thoughts’, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) Review 27 (3), September 2007, pp. 22-25. 
  • “A ‘White Coat Syndrome’: Is it Objective or Subjective?”, Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference ‘Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies’ 24th-25th May 2007,Graz: IAS-STS, 2007 (CD-Rom), IFZ Eigenverlag Graz 2007, ISBN 3-9502242-1-1.
  • “A Site for an Instrument in Holistic Versions of Sciense”, Proceedings of the 5th Annual Conference ‘Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies’ 26th-27th May 2006,Graz: IAS-STS, 2006 (CD-Rom), IFZ Eigenverlag Graz 2006, ISBN 3-9502242-0-3.
  • “Restoring Ontology of Objects: In Search for a New Objectivity”, Yearbook 2006 of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (Profil-Verlag, Munich/Vienna), 2006, vol.54, pp. 375-390.
  • “Beyond Translation: Conceptualizing Heterogeneous Micro-Communities: Report from the Joint 4S & EASST Conference, August 2004”, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) Review 23 (3), September 2004, pp. 4-6. 
  • “Ontological Criteria of Science and Perspectives for Sociology of Science”, Yearbook 2004 of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (Muenchen-Wien), 2004, vol 45, pp. 181-192.

  (in Russian)

  • “Scientific Community: A Quest for the Internal and External Liberty”, in: Epistemology & Philosophy of Science, 2024, vol. 66, no.3, in Print. (co-authored byI. T. Kasavin).

  • ‘The Сircular Understanding of Rationality and the Experimenter’s Regress’, in: Philosophical Problems, 2023, no. 10, pp. 141-145.

  • “On Philosophical Reflection from the Point of View of Epistemology and Ontology” in: The Digital Scholar: Philosopher‘s Lab, 2023, vol 6. , no. 2 , pp.- 54-67.

  • ‘Science-Related Populism as the Evolution of Rationality’, in: Tomsk State University Journal Of Philosophy Sociology And Political Science, 2023, no. 74, pp. 266-272.

  • “Who Studies The Studies of Science and Technology? On the Principle of Reflexivity From an Empirical and Theoretical Points of View”, in: Epistemology & Philosophy of Science, 2022, vol. 59 , no. 4, 21-30.
  • “On the Universality of Philosophical Reflection: Replies to Critics”, in: Epistemology & Philosophy of Science, 2022, vol. 59, no. 4, 50-54.
  • “What Do Positivism and Postpositivism Have in Common?”, in: I.T. Kasavin et al., eds. The Third Congress of Russian Society for History and Philosophy of Science (RSHPS) “After Post-positivism”, Moscow: Russian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, 2022, pp. 369-372.
  • “Cognitive Diversity as a Common Good”, Tomsk State University Journal Of Philosophy, Sociology, And Political Science, 2022, no. 68, pp. 218-223.
  • “Preface”, in: O. Stoliarova, ed. Progress in the Socio-Humanitarian Perspective,Moscow: Russian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, 2022. 6-11 pp.
  • “Myth of Science – the Boundaries of Archetypes” Tomsk State University Journal Of Philosophy, Sociology And Political Science, 2022, no. 66 , pp. 266-274.
  • “Is Pessimism about Science and Rationality Justified?”, in: E.V. Vostrikova, I.T. Kasavin, eds. The Mission of a Scientist in the Modern World: Science as a Vocation and a Profession,Moscow: Russian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, 2021, pp. 197 - 206.
  • “Profession and Vocation of a Scientist in the 21st Century”, in: E.V. Vostrikova, I.T. Kasavin, eds. The Mission of a Scientist in the Modern World: Science as a Vocation and a Profession,Moscow: Russian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, 2021, pp. 17 - 27.
  • “The Problem of Social Justification of the Philosophy of Science”, in: A. O. Kostina, E.V. Maslanov, eds. Union of Science and Humanism,Moscow: Russian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, 2021, pp. 158-168.
  •  “The Return of Metaphysics as a Subject Matter of Historical Ontology. Analytical Review. Part One”, in: The Digital Scholar: Philosopher‘s Lab, 2021, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 126-143.
  •   “The Return of Metaphysics as a Subject Matter of Historical Ontology. Analytical Review. Part Two”, in: The Digital Scholar: Philosopher‘s Lab, 2021, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 180-197.
  • “Can We Hope for Progress in Understanding ‘Progress’?”, Philosophical Problems, 2021, no. 11, pp. 63-70.
  • “Science and Ideals of Humanism”, Tomsk State University Journal Of Philosophy Sociology And Political Science Epistemology & Philosophy of Science, 2021, no. 60, pp. 248-253.
  • “Medical Theories and Practices in the Context of Post-positivist Philosophy of Science”, in: L.V. Shipovalova, ed. Historical Epistemology: Problems and Perspectives.Moscow: ROIFN, 2020, pp. 104-111.
  • “Historical Epistemology in Search of Ontology”, in: L.V. Shipovalova, ed. Historical Epistemology: Problems and Perspectives.Moscow: ROIFN, 2020, pp. 50-57.
  • “Historical Epistemology and Medicine: What Can They Give Each Other?”, The Digital Scholar: Philosopher‘s Lab, 2020, vol. 3, no. 3, pp.83-100.
  • “Philosophy of Science and Its Object: A Dialectics of Control and Autonomy”, Philosophy of Sciences, 2020, no. 3 (86), pp. 60-71.
  • “Cognitive Humility and Scientific Progress”, Philosophical Problems, 2020, no 12, pp. 139-142.
  • “The Vocation of a Scientist in a Disenchanted and Re-enchanted World”, Tomsk State University Journal Of Philosophy Sociology And Political Science, 2020, no. 55 , pp. 255-260.
  • “How to Distinguish an Absolutist from a Relativist: Some Thoughts on the Definition of Relativism Proposed by D. Bloor”, 2nd Congress of RSHPS “Science as a Public Good”, Saint-Petersburg and Internet, 27-29 November 2020, vol. 1-7, vol. 3.Moscow: RSHPS, 2020, pp. 87–90.
  •  “A Recurrence to Pre-Kantian Modes of Thought from the Point of View of A. N. Whitehead’s Historical and Ontological Conception”, The Digital Scholar: Philosopher‘s Lab, 2019, Vol. 2, no 4, pp. 129-147.
  • “Kant's Copernican Revolution as an Object of Philosophical Retrospection”, Epistemology & Philosophy of Science, 2019, vol. 56, no 4, pp. 219-236.
  • “Can We Talk about the Fall of Science?”, Epistemology & Philosophy of Science, 2019, vol. 56, no 3, 46-50.
  • “The Third Wave of Science Studies: Expertise, Language, Ontology”, in: A. A. Argamakova et al., eds. Social and Digital Studies of Science,Moscow: Russian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, 2019, pp. 64-80.
  • “Is Science Today a Profession or Vocation?”, Tomsk State University Journal Of Philosophy Sociology And Political Science, 2020, vol. 56, pp. 107-112.
  • “R. G. Collingwood’s Reform of Metaphysics as Relating to the Problem of a Possible Alternative to Kant’s Copernican Revolution”, The Digital Scholar: Philosopher‘s Lab, 2019, Vol. 2, no 2, pp. 86-103.
  • “Scientific Activism and the Idea of Performativity”, Epistemology & Philosophy of Science, 2018, vol. 55, no 2, pp. 42-48.
  •  “Historical Ontology as a Problem”, Tomsk State University Journal Of Philosophy Sociology And Political Science, 2018, no. 45, pp. 194-202.
  •  “The History of Ontology Continues. A Response to Critics”, Tomsk State University Journal Of Philosophy Sociology And Political Science, 2018, no. 45, pp. 226-229.
  • “Can Empirical Science Provide a Justification for Metaphysics?”, Tomsk State University Journal Of Philosophy Sociology And Political Science, 2018, no 43, pp. 5-18.
  • “What Can Be Said, and What Must Be Kept in Silence: Relativism, Skepticism, Apophaticism”, The Digital Scholar: Philosopher‘s Lab, 2018, Vol. 1, no 3, pp. 66-81.
  • “Ontological grounds for criticism of metaphysics and the return of metaphysics”, The Digital Scholar: Philosopher‘s Lab, 2018, Vol. 1, no 2, pp. 106-120.
  • “Does Historical Epistemology Imply Historical Ontology?” Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2018, Vol. 34, no 3, pp. 369-380.
  • “B. Hessen: System Thinking or Vulgar Sociologism? The Ideas of B. Hessen's Paper within the Context of Russian Philosophy”, in:  I. T. Kasavin, T. D. Sokolova, eds. Social philosophy of science. Ideas and Discussions.  Moscow: Russian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, 2018, pp. 42-56.
  • “An Incommensurability of Epistemologies?”, in: I.T. Kasavin, N. N. Voronina, eds., Epistemology Today. Ideas, Problems, Discussions.  NizhnijNovgorodStateUniversity, 2018, pp. 396-405.
  • “The Empirical Discovery of the World-Without-Man and the Problem of Scientific Justification of Metaphysics”, in: I.T. Kasavin et al., eds. History and Philosophy of Science in the Time of Change, vol. 1-6, vol. 6.Moscow: RSHPS, 2018, pp. 74–77.
  • “Philosophical Approaches to Classifications of Sciences: Biology”. Epistemology & Philosophy of Science, 2018, vol. 55, no 1, pp. 36-42.
  • “Communications in Science: Epistemological, Socio-cultural and Infrastructural Aspects. Materials of the Round Table”. Philosophical Problems, 2017 no. 11, pp. 23-57. Co-authors: Pruzhinin B., Antonovskiy A., Dorozhkin A., Griftsova I., Kasavin I., Maslanov E., Nevvazhay I., Pirozhkova S., Shchedrina T., Sokolova T., Sorina T, Voronina N., Yudin B.
  • “The Third Wave of Science Studies as a Philosophical Justification for STS”, Logos, 2018, Vol. 28, no 5, pp. 31-52.
  • “Boris Hessen’s Ideas and Russian Philosophy”, Philosophy Journal, 2017, vol. 10, no 3, pp. 112-132.
  •  “Should We Conceive Science outside History?”, Epistemology & Philosophy of Science, 2017, vol. 51, no 1, pp. 47-51.
  •  “The Return of Metaphysics as a Fact”, Philosophical Problems, 2017, no 8, pp. 113–123.
  • “A Comparative analysis of Post-positivist Studies of Science in the Light of the Problem of Context”, in: I. T. Kasavin, ed. Social Philosophy of Science. Russian Prospects,Moscow: Knorus, 2016, pp. 51–66 (Chapter 3).
  •  “Medical Innovations, Doctors and Patients: The Problem of Intentionality”, in: I.T. Kasavin, ed. Social Philosophy of Science. Russian Prospects,Moscow: Knorus, 2016, pp. 200–211 (Chapter 13).
  •  “Technoscience as An Experimental Environment and Experimental Methodology”, Epistemology & Philosophy of Science, 2016, no 2, pp. 40-44.
  • “Medical Technologies: A Problem of Intentionality”, Philosophical Studies, 2015, no 11, pp. 94-107.
  • “History and Philosophy of Science vs Science and Technology Studies”, Philosophical Problems, 2015, no 7, pp. 73-83.
  • “Translation and Understanding: Logical Positivism, Postpositivism, and Pragmatism”, in: I. T. Kasavin, ed. Understanding in the Cross-Cultural Communication, Moscow: IFRAN, 2014, pp.41-63.
  • “Preface”, in: I. T. Kasavin, ed. Understanding in the Cross-Cultural Communication. Moscow: IFRAN, 2014, pp. 3-6. Co-author: I. Kasavin.
  • “Languages in science and the problem of translation”, Philosophical Studies, 2014, no 11, pp. 82-95.
  • “Sociology of Science Vs. Philosophy of Science: Going Beyond the Bounds of Descriptivism-Normativism Dilemma”, Philosophical Problems, 2014, no 4, pp. 168-177.
  • “Skolkovo”: Architectural Trading Zones”, Sociology of Science and Technologies, 2013, no 4, pp. 132-144.
  • “The AllianceBetween Science and Philosophy in the Early Twentieth Century: Three Philosophical Projects”, Philosophical Studies, 2012, no 9, pp. 79-93.
  • “Is It Possible to Get Too Much of Being?”, Epistemology & Philsophy of Science, 2013, vol. 35, no 1, pp. 82-84.
  • “The Ontological Significance of History of Science: Panel Discussion”, Epistemology & Philsophy of Science, 2013, vol. 35, no 1, pp. 55-65.
  • “Two Faces of Apriorism”, Epistemology & Philsophy of Science, 2012, vol. 34, no 4, pp. 42-58.
  • “On the Possibility of a Criticism of Science and Technology”, Sociology of Power, 2012, vol. 6-7, pp. 13-26.
  • “David Hume’s Philosophy and Process Thought: Expanding Subjective Experience into the Universe”, in: I. T. Kasavin, ed. David Hume and Modern Thought. Moscow: IFRAN, 2012, pp. 201-214.
  • “A Historical Context of Science: Material Culture and Ontologies”, Epistemology & Philsophy of Science, 2011, vol. 30, no 4, pp. 32-50.
  •  “Ontologies of Artifacts: The Lifeworld as a Common Measure. Preface”, in: O. E. Stoliarova, ed. Ontologies of Artifacts: An Interrelation between ‘Natural’ and ‘Artificial’ Components of the Lifeworld. Moscow: Delo, 2012, pp. 7-17.
  • “The Lifeworld and Basic Ontological Premises: A Problem of Genesis”, in: O. E. Stoliarova, ed. Ontologies of Artifacts: An Interrelation between ‘Natural’ and ‘Artificial’ Components of the Lifeworld. Moscow: Delo, 2012, pp. 113-134.

 Over 100 articles.

Professional activities, Professional Awards
 

  • Expert, Russian Science Foundation (2024 - continuing).

    Membership in Dissertation Council MSU.057.1(09.01),Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Philosophy; Specialty in Council: 5.7.6 - Philosophy of Science and Technology (Philosophy of Science) (2023 - continuing).

  • Member, Editorial Board, Journal “Sociology of Power” (2013 – continuing)

  • Teaching Award: For High Quality Teaching, State University – HigherSchoolofEconomics,Moscow, 2006.
  • Teaching Award: For High Quality Teaching, State University – HigherSchoolofEconomics,Moscow, 2007.
  • Teaching Award: For the Best Educational Project (“STS Reading Group”), State University – HigherSchoolofEconomics,Moscow, 2009.
  • Distinguished Achievement Award: For the Organization of the International Interdisciplinary Conference “Ontologies of Artifacts”, State University – Higher SchoolofEconomics,Moscow, 2010.
  • Teaching Assistant Award: For the Joint Staff-Postgraduate Student Research Project (with postgrad. student Daria Drozdova),StateUniversity– Higher School of Economics,Moscow, 2010.

Conferences and Panels Organized

Professional Visits and Visiting Affiliations

  • Visiting Scholar, Center for Process Studies,ClaremontSchoolof Theology andClaremontLincolnUniversity, June 2013.

  • SEESHOP 6,CardiffSchoolfor Social Sciences,Cardiff University,UK, June 8-10, 2012.
  • Senior Research Fellow at the Research Educational Center ‘Policy Analysis and Study of Technologies’, Tomsk State University (REC PAST), Tomsk,Russia, September 1, 2012 – June 30, 2015.
  • Visiting Scholar, Center for Process Studies,ClaremontSchoolof Theology andClaremontLincolnUniversity, January 2009.
  • Research Fellow at the John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values, History and Philosophy of Science Program, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA. September, 2008 – March, 2009.
  • International Summer Workshop  ‘A Turn to Ontology in STS? - ambivalence, multiplicity and deferral’, Oxford Said Business School,UK. 25-26 June 2008.
  • Higher Education Training Workshops for Course Development Competition Grantees, Central European University, Curriculum Resource Center, Budapest, Hungary,  April, 11-19 2007 and June, 18 -25 2007 (project: the teaching course ‘Science and Technology Studies: From Ontology to Epistemology and Vice Versa’).  
  • Conference ‘Instruments in Art and Science – On the Architectonics of Cultural Boundaries in the 17th Century’, The Free University of Berlin, Department of Philosophy and Human Sciences,Germany. October, 30 - November, 1 2003.
  • Conference ‘Models, Simulations and the Application of Mathematics’, The University of Bielefeld, ZIF,Germany. June 4-7, 2003.
  • Seminar on Philosophy of Technology, the University of Hull, Department of Philosophy, UK, May 11, 2003.
  • Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS),Graz,Austria. October, 2002 - June, 2003.
  • Seminar ‘Science, Technology and Technoscience in a Hermeneutic Perspective’, Eötvös University, Department of History and Philosophy of Science,Hungary,Budapest. June, 10 -14 2001.
  • Seminar “Imaging technologies: Philosophical, Hermeneutic and Media Perspectives on Hi-tech Realities’’. The University of Aarhus, Denmark. Oct, 25-29 1999.

Fellowships, Grants

  • Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Project “New tendencies of the humanities and social sciences development in the context of digitalization and new social problems and threats: interdisciplinary approach”, Agreement № 075-15-2020-798, participant.

  • Russian Scientific Foundation, Collective Research Grant # 19-18-00494 “The Mission of the Scientist in the Modern World: Science as Profession and Vocation ”, 2019-2023, participant.
  • Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Research Grant # 18-011-00281 “Historical Epistemology: Theoretical Foundations and Research Perspectives”, 2018–2020, participant.
  • Russian Foundation for the Humanities, Individual Research Grant #16-03-00033a “Empirical Metaphysics and  Conditions for Its Possibility”, 2016-2018.
  • Russian Scientific Foundation, Collective Research Grant # 14-18-02227, “Social Philosophy of Science: Russian Perspective”, 2014-2018, participant.
  • Russian Foundation for the Humanities, Individual Research Grant # 12-03-00600a, “Constructivism as Ontology”, 2012-2014.
  •  CEU - Tomsk State University, HESP, Departmental Development Partnership Program, REC “Policy Analysis and Study of Technologies”, participant.
  • The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Individual Research Grant # 65 “The Non-Classical Approaches to Science and Technology”, 2012.
  •  Russian Foundation for Basic Research,Moscow, Symposium Grant (International Interdisciplinary Conference “Ontologies of Artifacts: An Interrelation between ‘Natural’ and ‘Artificial’ Components of the Lifeworld” (November 15-16, 2010, State University—Higher School of Economics,Moscow), project № 10-06-06180 “g”, Head of project.
  • State University – Higher School of Economics,Moscow, Travel grant (Tokyo,Japan), 2010.
  • State University – Higher School of Economics,Moscow, Collective Inter-Institutional Research Grant  “Ontologies of Artifacts: An Interrelation Between ‘Natural’ and ‘Artificial’ Components of the Lifeworld”, 2010, Head of research team.
  • State University – Higher School of Economics,Moscow, Collective Research Grant, “Ontology of Possible Worlds”, 2009, participant.
  • Fulbright Occasional Lecture Program, Travel Award (Claremont, CA, USA), 2009.
  • State University – Higher School of Economics,Moscow, Individual Research Grant, “An Introduction to STS: A Philosophical Aspect”, 2008–2009.
  • Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program, Six-Month Visiting Scholar Grant, 2008-2009.
  • State University – Higher School of Economics,Moscow, Individual Research Grant, “Dialectic in XX century”, 2007–2008.
  • Central European University, Curriculum Resource Center, Budapest, Hungary, Individual Course Development Grant, March-December, the teaching course “Science and Technology Studies: From Ontology to Epistemology and Vice Versa”, and the “Course Portfolio Project”, 2007.
  • State University – Higher School of Economics,Moscow, Research Grant for Young Scholars, “Dialectic in XX century”, 2006–2007.
  • State University – Higher School of Economics,Moscow, Travel Grants: 2006 (Austria,Graz); 2007 (Austria,Graz), 2008 (UK,Oxford).
  • European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), Travel Grant (Paris), 2004.
  • Russian Foundation for the Humanities, Research Grant #04-03-00023a “Social Constructionism: An Ontological Turn. The Analysis of Some Trends of Postmodern Approaches to Science and Technology through theReading of STS”, 2004-2005.
  •  IAS-STS,Graz,Austria, Travel Grants, 2004, 2005, 2006 .
  • Budapest Center of International Society for Hermeneutics and Science (ISHS), Conference Grant, 2003.
  • University of Bielefeld, ZIF,Germany, Travel and Conference Grant, 2003.
  • Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS), Graz, Austria, Fellowship at the IAS-STS, “A Postmodern Image of Science and Technology: Technoscience Studies”, October 2002-June 2003.
  • Russian Foundation for the Humanities, Travel Grant (Hungary), 2001. 

 

Presentations and Lectures (selected)

 
  •  “What Do Positivism and Postpositivism Have in Common?”, The Third Congress of Russian Society for History and Philosophy of Science (RSHPS) “After Post-positivism”, Saratov State University, Saratov, Russia, September 8-10, 2022.
  • “Philosophical Reflection – Epistemological Problem and Ontological Solution”, Transcendental Turn in Contemporary Philosophy–7: Epistemology, Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence,Russian State University for the Humanities,Moscow, April 24, 2022.
  •  “Missionof Science – Charisma of Reason”, The Third Russian Conference “Revolution and Evolution: Development Models in Science, Culture, Society”, Russian Society for History and Philosophy of Science (RSHPS),Nizhny Novgorod, November 26-28, 2021.
  • “Transformation of the Discourse of Progress: Three Key concepts”, International Conference “Rationality in the Digital Age”, The Second Stepin Readings, Institute of Philosophy,Moscow, November 9-10, 2021.
  • “How to Distinguish an Absolutist from a Relativist: Some Thoughts on the Definition of Relativism Proposed by D. Bloor”, The Second Congress of Russian Society for History and Philosophy of Science (RSHPS) “Science as a public good”, Round Table “Relationships between Science and Society: History and Perspectives”, St Petersburg University, Russia, September 25-27, 2020.
  • “A Philosophical Retrospective and Transcendental Argument”, The Days of Philosophy in St. Petersburg 2019, Round Table “Historical Epistemology: History, Epistemology, Ontology”,Saint PetersburgUniversity, November 23 2019.
  • “The Empirical Discovery of the World Without Man and the Problem of Scientific Justification of Metaphysics”, The First Congress of Russian Society for History and Philosophy of Science “History and Philosophy of Science in the Time of Change”, September 14-16 2018, Institute of Philosophy,Moscow.
  • “Historical Ontology as a Problem”, 14th Taurida Readings “Anacharsis”,Crimea, Novy Svet, September 18–20, 2018.
  • “B. Hessen: System Thinking or Vulgar Sociologism? The Main Ideas of B. Hessen's Paper within the Context of Russian Philosophy”, Symposium “Philosophy of Science in the Fire of Revolution”, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, 14 November, 2017,Moscow.
  • “Technologies of Care and Responsibility: Medical Innovations, Doctors and Patients”, Symposium “Doctor, Doctor: Global and Historical Perspectives on the Doctor-Patient Relationship”, The Oxford Research Center in the Humanities, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, 24 March, 2017, Oxford, UK.
  • “Milieu, Embodiment, and Cultural Studies of Science.” Comment on Rom Harre’s paper “Aspects of a Social Philosophy of Science”, International Conference «Social Philosophy of Science 3.0», Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, 17 November, 2015,Moscow.
  • “Technologies of Responsibility and Care: Medical Innovations and Patients”, International Conference “Social Philosophy of Science. Russian Prospects” in Honor of Prof. V. Stepin, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, 18-19 November, 2014, Moscow (plenary speaker).
  • “Realistic and Constructivist Interpretations of History of Science”, InternationalSchoolof Sociology of Science and Technology “Science Studies in Russia: Past, Present, Future. 50 Years Anniversary of Russian Sociology of Science”, Center for Science and Technology Studies,EuropeanUniversity atSt. Petersburg, October, 27-292014, St. Petersburg.
  • “Technologies of Responsibility and Care: Medical Innovations and Patients”, Seminar “Care: Between Private and Public”, February 28 – March 2 2014, Kazan Federal University,Kazan.
  • “A Philosophical Reflection on STS”, Regular Seminar “Philosophy of Mathematics”, January 17, 2014,
  •  Moscow State University, Department of Philosophy,Moscow.
  • “The Ontological Significance of History of Science”, Faculty Seminar at the Center for Process Studies, June 12, 2013, Claremont School of Theology, CA,USA.
  • “Skolkovo”: Architectural Trading Zones”, Faculty Seminar, November 23, 2012, Research Educational Center ‘Policy Analysis and Study of Technologies’, REC PASTTomskStateUniversity,Tomsk.
  • “The Ontological Significance of History of Science”, Regular Seminar “Problems of Rational Philosophy”, September 18, 2012, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences,Moscow.
  • “History of Science as a Way to a Dynamic Ontology: Some Contemporary Constructivist Perspectives on Science and Reality”, “Dynamic Being, International Conference on Ontology”, June 21-23 2012, Sofia University,Sofia,Bulgaria.
  • “David Hume’s Philosophy and Process Thought: Expanding Subjective Experience into the Universe”,
  • International Conference “David Hume and Modern Philosophy”, November 15-17, 2011, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences,Moscow.
  • “STS Ontologies”, Public Lecture, May 25, 2011, Moscow Philosophical College.
  • “What is STS?”, Public Lecture, May 16, 2011, Moscow Philosophical College.
  • “The Possible in the Light of the Concrete: Whitehead's Perspective”, “The Dynamic Ontologies of A.N. Whitehead and N. Hartmann", May 5-7, 2011, Whitehead Metaphysical Society,Katowice,Poland.
  • “Scientific Languages: Incommensurability and a Possibility for Translation”, Workshop “The Untranslatable in Philosophy and Culture”, April 26, 2011,The Institute of the World Cultures, Faculty of Philosophy, Moscow State University,Moscow.
  • “The Lifeworld and Basic Ontological Premises: A Problem of Genesis”, International Conference “Ontologies of Artefacts: Interrelations between “Natural” and “Artificial” Components of the Lifeworld”, November 15-16, State University-Higher School of Economics,Moscow.
  • “Philosophy Of/In STS: What STS Can Tell to a Faithful Philosopher”, The 35th 4S Annual Meeting, held jointly with the Japanese Society for Science and Technology Studies, “STS in Global Contexts”, August 25-29, Komaba I Campus, The University of Tokio, Japan.
  • “The Notion of the Concrete in the Light of Metaphysical Discussions on Possibility”, International Conference ‘Ontology of Possible Worlds’, October 29-30, Department of Philosophy, State University-Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.
  • “Whitehead’s Relational Ontology and Its Constructivist Interpretation”, Faculty Seminar January 6,  2009, the Center for Process Studies, Claremont School of Theology, CA, USA.
Over 50 presentations.

Research Interests
  • History and Philosophy of Science, Social Epistemology, Metaphysics, Relational Ontologies, Process Philosophy, Science and Technology Studies.

Professional membership

  
  • Russian Society for History and Philosophy of Science (2016-present)
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