Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences

Institute of Philosophy of RAS

Институт философии РАН

Established	1929 (1929)
Field of research	Philosophy
Director	A. A. Guseinov (acting)
Location	Moscow, Russia
Affiliations	Russian Academy of Sciences
Website	https://eng.iph.ras.ru/

The Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian: Институт философии РАН) is the central research institution of Russia which conducts scientific work in the main areas and topical issues of modern philosophical knowledge.

History

It was founded as the Institute of Scientific Philosophy in 1921 by Gustav Shpet, who was its first director until 1923. The philosophy department of the University of Moscow had been disbanded in the summer of 1921, however philosophers such as Semyon Frank and Ivan Ilyin attempted to set up temporary courses at the new institute. However, the Bolsheviks soon put a stop to this and Frank and Ilyin where amongst the deportees sent into exile on the philosophers' ships. Shpet's name was put forward for deportation but Anatoli Lunacharsky, the People's Commissar for Education, intervened and he was allowed to remain in Russia.

The Institute of Scientific Philosophy was reassigned and became part of the created Russian Association of Research Institutes for Social Sciences (RANION). In 1927 a Philosophical Department was opened at the Communist Academy. On November 23, 1928, the actual unification of the philosophical section of the Communist Academy and the Institute of Scientific Philosophy headed by Abram Deborin.

On April 12, 1929 by the decree of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union, the merger of the section and the institute, an independent Institute of Philosophy of the Communist Academy was created, headed by Abram Deborin; at the same time, the Institute of Scientific Philosophy continued to operate in the RANION system, which was assigned the execution of an educational function the training of scientific personnel.

In 1936 reform and unification of the Communist Academy and the Academy of Sciences of the USSR ( USSR Academy of Sciences): liquidation of the Communist Academy as an independent organization and its absorption by the structures of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union; the incorporation of the Institute of Philosophy into the system of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union: on the basis of the Institute of Philosophy of the Communist Academy, the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union was created, headed by Vladimir Adoratsky.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, since the end of 1991, the institution has been part of the system of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Directors

Years	Director
September 1921 – March 1923	Gustav G. Shpet
March 1923 – 1924	Vladimir I. Nevsky (actual leader - deputy director Yakov A. Berman )
1924–1931	acad. Abram M. Deborin
1931–1938	acad. Vladimir V. Adoratsky
1939–1944	acad. Pavel F. Yudin
1944–1946	Doctor of Philosophy V. I. Svetlov
1946–1947	Doctor of Philosophy G. S. Vasetsky
1947–1954	acad. Georgy F. Aleksandrov
1955–1962	acad. Pyotr N. Fedoseev
1962–1967	acad. Fedor V. Konstantinov
1968–1971	Corresponding Member USSR Academy of Sciences Pavel V. Kopnin
1971–1973	Doctor of Philosophy F. T. Arkhiptsev (acting)
1973–1974	acad. Bonifaty M. Kedrov
1974–1983	Doctor of Philosophy B. S. Ukraintsev
1983—1985	acad. Georgy L. Smirnov
1986–1988	Corresponding Member RAS N. I. Lapin
1988—2006	acad. V. S. Stepin
2006–2015	acad. A. A. Guseinov
2015–2021	acad. Andrei V. Smirnov
2021	A. V. Chernyaev (acting)
since 2021	acad. A. A. Guseinov (acting)

External links

Official website