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Philosophy in Russia

The Fourth Russian Philosophy Congress

So what are the problems that interest Russian thinkers today? Anna Kostikova and Elena Kosilova answer this question with a roundup of the topics discussed at the biggest gathering of Russian philosophers in history.

The Fourth Russian Philosophy Congress was an outstanding event in Russian philosophy. The number of participants exceeded all previous international congresses of philosophy: more than 4,000 papers were submitted, 3,800 were approved, and more than 2,200 people gave talks.

On the first day of the Congress, the plenary session – a meeting of all the delegates – took place in the Conference Hall of the enormous main building of Moscow State University (MSU). The speakers were the academician Victor Sadovnichiy, the Rector of MSU, who spoke on ‘Knowledge and Wisdom in the Globalizing World’; V.S.

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