Myroslav Popovych (; 12 April 1930,

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– 10 February 2018,

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) was a Ukrainian philosopher, DA, professor, Academician of the

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Biography

Popovych was born on 12 April 1930 in

, in the

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of the

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(in present-day

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). In 1953 he graduated from the Taras Shevchenko University, philosophy department. In 2001 he became the director of the Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the

. In 2003 he was elected Academician of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences.

Publications

* "On the Philosophical Analysis of the Science Language" ("О философском анализе языка науки") (1966) * "Logic and Scientific Cognition" ("Логіка і наукове пізнання" (1971) * "Philosophical Aspects of Semantics" ("Философские вопросы семантики" (1975) * "Outline of History of Logical Ideas in the Context of Culture and History" ("Очерк истории логических идей в культурно-историческом контексте") (1979) * "Hryhoriy Skovoroda" ("Григорій Сковорода") (1984, co-authorship) * "Outlook of Ancient Slavs" ("Мировозрение древних словян» (1985) * " Mykola Gogol" ("Микола Гоголь» (1989) * "Ukraine and Europe: the Rightists and the Leftists" ("Україна і Європа: праві і ліві") (1996) * "Rationality and Dimensions of Human Life" ("Раціональність і виміри людського буття» (1997) * "Outline of the History of Ukrainian Culture" ("Нарис історії культури України") (1999) * "Universal Encyclopedia" ("Універсальний словник-енциклопедія") (1999, chief editor) * "Red Century" ("Червоне століття") (2005) * "Being Human" ("Бути людиною") (2011)

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