Problems of Philosophy (magazine)

Academic journal

Voprosy filosofii (Problems of Philosophy)

Language| Russian
Edited by| Boris Pruzhinin
Publication details
History| 1947–present
Publisher|

Russian Academy of Sciences (Soviet Union/Russia)

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ISO 4| Vopr. Filos.
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ISSN| 0042-8744

LCCN| 51016068
OCLC no.| 429157875
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Voprosy Filosofii (Russian: Вопросы философии, Problems of Philosophy) is a Soviet and Russian scientific and theoretical philosophical peer-reviewed academic journal. It was established in July 1947 under the guidance of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences [ru]. Bonifaty Kedrov was one of its initiators and held the position of editor in chief from 1947 to 1949. [1]

## History

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The publication is considered the successor of the magazine Under the Banner of Marxism 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 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.[2]

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

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Further information: Cybernetics in the Soviet Union

"Whom Does Cybernetics Serve?" was an anonymous article from "Materialist" which appeared in No. 5, 1953, (pp. 210–219). They attacked cybernetics 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."[3] Two years later the magazine published "The Main Features of Cybernetics" by Sergei Sobolev, Alexey Lyapunov and Anatoly Kitov which defended cybernetics against the unwarranted criticism by philosophers of what they regarded as a bono-fide science.[4]

## Chief editors

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Chief Editor  | Years

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Bonifaty Kedrov | 1947–1949
Dmitry Chesnokov | 1949–1952
F. V. Konstantinov | 1952–1954
Mikhail Kammari  | 1954—1959
A. F. Okulov  | 1959–1960
Mark Mitin | 1960–1967
Ivan Frolov  | 1968–1977
Vadim S. Semenov  | 1977–1987
V. A. Lektorsky  | 1988–2009
Boris Pruzhinin  | since 2009

## Literature

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* 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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1. ^ Kozhevnikov, A. B. (2004-01-01). Stalin's Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists. Imperial College Press. ISBN 9781860944192.
2. ^ "Журнал "Вопросы философии" - «Вопросы философии» за 60 лет". vphil.ru. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
3. ^ Levien, Roger; Maron, M. E. (1964). Cybernetics and its development in the Soviet Union (PDF). Santa Monica: RAND Corporation. Retrieved 21 August 2017.[dead link]
4. ^ Gerovitch, Slava (2002). From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics. Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]: MIT Press. ISBN 0262072327.

## External links

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* Official website
* www.philosophy.ru/library/vopros/00.html

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