''Voprosy Filosofii'' (russian: Вопросы философии, ''Problems of Philosophy'') is a Soviet and Russian
scientific
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and
theoretical
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philosophical
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peer-reviewed
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academic journal
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. It was established in July 1947 under the guidance of the .
Bonifaty Kedrov
Bonifaty Mikhailovich Kedrov (russian: Бонифа́тий Миха́йлович Ке́дров; , Yaroslavl – 10 September 1985, Moscow) was a Soviet researcher, philosopher, logician, chemist and psychologist who was a specialist in the philo ...
was one of its initiators and held the position of editor in chief from 1947 to 1949.
History
The publication is considered the successor of the magazine ''
Under the Banner of Marxism
''Under the Banner of Marxism'' (russian: Под знаменем марксизма, german: Unter dem Banner des Marxismus) was a Soviet philosophical and socio-economic journal published in Moscow from 1922 to 1944. It was published monthly, e ...
'' which was published in Moscow from 1922 to 1944.
The magazine was created on the initiative of the prominent Soviet statesman and ideologue
Andrei Zhdanov
Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov ( rus, Андре́й Алекса́ндрович Жда́нов, p=ɐnˈdrej ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ ˈʐdanəf, links=yes; – 31 August 1948) was a Soviet politician and cultural ideologist. After World War ...
in 1947. Periodicity of the magazine was initially three times a year, from 1951 it was 6 times a year, and from 1958 it was published monthly.
Circulation in 1971 was about forty thousand copies; and recently In 2007 it was about three thousand copies. In Soviet times, the magazine had the largest circulation among philosophical magazines in the world. Since 1989, Pravda Publishing House has been publishing a book series, On the History of Domestic Philosophical Thought, as a supplement to the magazine.
Discussion of cybernetics
"Whom Does Cybernetics Serve?" was an anonymous article from "Materialist" which appeared in No. 5, 1953, (pp. 210–219). They attacked
cybernetics
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as a "misanthropic pseudotheory", "a sterile flower on the tree of knowledge generated as a result of the one-sided and unbounded exaggeration of one of the demons of knowledge."
Two years later the magazine published "
The Main Features of Cybernetics "The Main Features of Cybernetics" (russian: Основные черты кибернетики) was a key text which led to the emergence of cybernetics in the Soviet Union, published in July–August 1955 volume of the state philosophical organ, ' ...
" by
Sergei Sobolev
Prof Sergei Lvovich Sobolev (russian: Серге́й Льво́вич Со́болев) H FRSE (6 October 1908 – 3 January 1989) was a Soviet mathematician working in mathematical analysis and partial differential equations.
Sobolev introduc ...
,
Alexey Lyapunov
Alexey Andreevich Lyapunov (russian: Алексе́й Андре́евич Ляпуно́в; 25 September 1911 – 23 June 1973) was a Soviet mathematician and an early pioneer of computer science. One of the founders of Soviet cybernetic ...
and
Anatoly Kitov
Anatoly Ivanovich Kitov (9 August 1920, Samara - 14 October 2005) was a pioneer of cybernetics in the Soviet Union.
Biography Early life
The Kitov's family moved to Tashkent in 1921 as his father, Ivan Stepanovich Kitov, had served as a ju ...
which defended Cybernetics against the unwarranted criticism by philosophers of what they regarded as a bono-fide science.
Literature
* ''Avner Zis'' У истоков журнала «Вопросы философии» // Вопросы философии. — 1997. — № 7. — С. 44—53.
* ''Zahar Kamensky'' Утраченные иллюзии (Воспоминания о начале издания «Вопросов философии») // Вопросы философии. — 1997. — № 7. — С. 21—28.
* ''Lektorsky V.'
«Вопросы философии» за 60 лет// Вопросы философии. — 2007. — № 7.
* ''Potkov L.'' Некоторые эпизоды из жизни журнала в 1947—1949 годах // Вопросы философии. — 1997. — № 7. — С. 29—33.
* ''Vadim Sadowski'
«Вопросы философии» в шестидесятые годы// Вопросы философии. — 1997. — № 8. — С. 33—46.
References
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