''Voprosy Filosofii'' (, ''Problems of Philosophy'') is a Soviet and Russian

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and

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. It was established in July 1947 under the guidance of the . Bonifaty Kedrov 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'' (, ) was a Soviet Union, Soviet philosophical and socio-economic journal published in Moscow from 1922 to 1944. It was published monthly, except for 1933–1935, when it was published bi-monthly. History In a lett ...

'' 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, Андрей Александрович Жданов, p=ɐnˈdrʲej ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪdʑ ˈʐdanəf, a=Ru-Андрей Жданов.ogg, links=yes; – 31 August 1948) was a Soviet politician. He was ...

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

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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" by

Sergei Sobolev Prof Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, FRSE (; 6 October 1908 – 3 January 1989) was a Soviet Union, Soviet mathematician working in mathematical analysis and partial differential equations. Sobolev introduced notions that are now fundamental for severa ...

Alexey Lyapunov Alexey Andreyevich Lyapunov (; 8 October 1911 – 23 June 1973) was a Soviet mathematician and an early pioneer of computer science. One of the founders of Soviet cybernetics, Lyapunov was member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union ...

and

Anatoly Kitov Anatoly Ivanovich Kitov (9 August 1920 – 14 October 2005) was a pioneer of cybernetics in the Soviet Union. Early life and education Anatoly Kitov was born in Samara in 1920. The Kitov family moved to Tashkent in 1921, as Anatoly's father ...

which defended cybernetics against the unwarranted criticism by philosophers of what they regarded as a bono-fide science.

Chief editors

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

External links

* * Philosophy journals Russian Academy of Sciences academic journals {{philo-journal-stub