MAXIM LEBEDEV
PERSONAL INFORMATION
EDUCATION
1977 — 1983
Moscow State Linguistics University (then — Moscow State Institute of Foreign Languages)
1991 — 1993
University of the Russian Academy of Education
Dept. of Philosophy
M.A., Philosophy
1993 — 1996
Postgraduate at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Sector of Logic
QUALIFICATION
D.Sc. in philosophy (2004) on the dissertation "Linguistic meaning and its communicative and epistemological justification in the analyic philosophy of language"
Ph.D. in philosophy (1997) on the dissertation "Philosophical grounds of the stability of linguistic sign"
Member of the Scientific Council for the
Methodology of AI of the Russian Academy of Sciences
LANGUAGES
Russian — native
English, French — fluent
German, Italian, Polish — basic
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1993 — 1998
University of the Russian Academy of Education
Dept. of Philosophy
Lecturer
1997 — 1998
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
Dept. of Social Philosophy
Lecturer
1998
Center for Interactive Methods of Education (Russian Academy of Education, Moscow) / Center for Excellence in Education (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Workshop Trainer (Critical Thinking)
1999 — 2000
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
Dept. of Ontology and Theory of Knowledge
Doctorant
2000 — 2004
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
Dept. of History of Philosophy
Assosiate Professor
2000 — 2005
Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Senior Researcher
2007 — now
Moscow State Medical University
Dept. of Philosophy and Bioethics
Professor
CONFERENCES
1995
- XI International Conference on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Moscow - Obninsk
1996
- 2nd European Congress of Analytic Philosophy. Leeds
1997
- Particularities of Philosophical Discourse. Moscow
- I National Philosophical Congress of Russia. St.-Petersburg
- Styles and Methods of Mathematical Thinking. Moscow
- IV International Conference "Logical Kant Studies". Kaliningrad
1998
1999
- 3rd European Congress of Analytic Philosophy. Maribor
- VIII Kantian Readings. Kaliningrad
2000
2001
2002
2003
- Probabilistic Ideas in Science. Novosibirsk
- Philosophy and Philology: Aspects of Interdisciplinary Synthesis. Tomsk
2005
- IV National Philosophical Congress of Russia. Moscow
2006
- III International Congress on Methaphisics. Rome
- Relevant Problems of Mathematics, Mechanics, and IT. Perm
- Philosophy of Mind. Moscow
- Science, Religion, Text. Vladimir
2007
- What Philosophy of Science Do We Need? St.Petersburg
- Applying Peirce – IX World Congress of Semiotics. Helsinki
- Analytic Philosophy and Modern Rationality. Gdansk
- Being as the Central Problem of Ontology.
St.Petersburg
- Hermeneutics and Text Studies. Samara
- Science, Religion, Text 2. Vladimir
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
1998 (January - March)
Indiana University, Bloomington
Center for Excellence in Education
Visiting Scholar
1998 (August) — 1999 (August)
University of Iowa
Dept. of Philosophy
Visiting Scholar
European Society for Analytic Philosophy (since 1996)
American Philosophical Association (1998-2000)
Russian Philosophical Association (since 2002)
BASIC PUBLICATIONS
Books
Books edited
- Analytic Philosophy. A Student's Guide (in collaboration).
Moscow: People's Friendship University Publishers,
2006 (in Russian).
Articles
- (with V.Arshinov) European Subjectivity and the Virtual Agent of the Post-non-classical Science. — Epistemologia i Filosofia Nauki , 2008 (forthcoming) (in Russian).
- Reliabilism Revisited. — Voprosy Filosofii #11, 2007 (in Russian).
- (with V.Arshinov) Post-non-classical rationality, Virtualistics and IT. — Filosofskie Nauki #2, 2007 (in Russian).
- Conception of Time in the Existential Onthology of Roman Ingarden. — Voprosy Filosofii #12, 2006 (in Russian).
- Ethics of the Social Risk. — In: Philosophy of Science. Ethos of the Modern Science. Moscow: Institute of Philosophy of RAS, 2006 (in Russian).
- Catholic Probabilism and the Problem of Justification of the Scientific Knowledge. — Novosibirsk , Proceedings of the Novosibirsk State University, #2/1, 2004 (in Russian).
- Starmaking: Who Needs It? — In: Philosophy of Science. Interdisciplinary Approach. Moscow: Institute of Philosophy of RAS, 2004 (in Russian).
- Dynamic Approach to the Analysis of the Lingistic Meaning in the Modern Philosophy of Language. — In: Gustav Shpet Heritage / Comprehensio. Tomsk University Publishers, 2003 (in Russian).
- Donald Davidson's Theory of Linguistic Meaning. — In: D.Davidson. Inquiries into Truth and Intrepretetation. Russian translation. Moscow: Praxis, 2003 (in Russian).
- Non-Linearity of Epistemological Justification — In: Philosophy of Science. Synergetics of People-Dimensional Reality. Moscow: Institute of Philosophy of RAS, 2002 (in Russian).
- Hilary Putnam and Traditional Philosophy. — In: H.Putnam. Reason, Truth and History. Russian translation. Moscow: Praxis, 2002 (in Russian).
- Dynamic Causal Theory of Reference. — Logos #4, 2001 (in Russian).
- Goodman's World Technologies. — In: N.Goodman. Ways of Worldmaking. Russian translation. Moscow: Praxis, 2001 (in Russian).
- The Empiricism of a Scientific Theory. — Kantovskiy Sbornik, v.22. Kaliningrad, 2000 (in Russian).
- Truthfulness of Linguistic Meanings and Semantics of Transition from Description to Explanation. — Acta Manilana. University of Manila, 2000.
- The Problem of Following the Rule in the Philosophy of Mathematics of Wittgenstein. — In: Styles and Methods of Mathematical Thinking . S.-Pb., 1999 (in Russian).
- Semantics of Transition from Description to Explanation. — In: What Does It Mean To Know? (coll.) Moscow, 1999 (in Russian).
- Philosophy of Language on the Background of Development of Philosophy. — In: Particularities of Philosophical Discourse (coll.). Moscow, 1998 (in Russian).
- (with A.Cherniak) Linguistic Convention: an Essay of Genetic Analysis . — Filosofskie Issledovania #3, 1996 (in Russian).
Papers delivered at conferences
- Distributed Intentionality. - Applying Peirce. IX World Congress of Semiotics. Helsinki, 2007.
- Phenomenological Aspects of the Introspection Method of Sri Ramana Maharshi. - Science, Religion, Text. Vladimir, 2006.
- Externalist Justification of Apriori Knowledge. - Philosophy of Mind. Moscow, 2006 (in Russian).
- Philosophical and Methodological Principles of Computer Modelling of Linguistic Meanings. - Relevant Problems of Mathematics, Mechanics, and IT. Perm, 2006.
- Reliabilism Revisited. - III International Congress on Methaphisics. Rome, 2006.
- Conception of Time in the Existential Onthology of Roman Ingarden. - IV National Philosophical Congress of Russia. Moscow , 2005.
- Desacralisation of Philology. - Conference "Philosophy and Philology: Aspects of Interdisciplinary Synthesis". Tomsk, 2003.
- Statistical Analysis in Linguistics. - Conference "Probabilistic Ideas in Science". Novosibirsk, 2003.
- Ratio of the Truth-Conditions and Conditions of Justification in the Structure of Linguistic Meaning. - III Russian Philosophical Congress. Rostov-na-Donu, 2002 (in Russian). (see also in English)
- Causal Reference as Intersection of Idiolects. - 4th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, Lund, 2002.
- The Problem of Access in the Epistemic Justification. - III Smirnov readings. Moscow, 2001.
- Metaphysical Realism and Realism about Truth. - Metaphysics for the Third Millenium, Rome, 2000.
- IF-semantics and the Problem of Linguistic Meaning. - Conference "Modern logic: problems and methods". St.-Petersburg, 2000 (in Russian).
- Dynamic Causal Theory of Reference. - 26th Annual Meeting on Philosophy of Science. Dubrovnik, 2000.
- Kant's Ideas in the Analytic Philosophy of Science. - VIII Kantian Readings. Kaliningrad, 1999.
- Coherence Theory of Truth and the Realist/Anti-Realist Controversy. - 3rd European Congress of Analytic Philosophy. Maribor, 1999.
- Methodology of Transition from Description to Explanation. - XX World Congress of Philosophy, section "Philosophy of Language". Boston, 1998.
- Philosophy of Language and the Development of Epistemology. - 2nd Inter-Universities Conference "Particularities of Philosophical Discourse". Moscow, 1998.
- Getting from Description to Explanation. - 4th Annual Meeting on Philosophy of Science. Dubrovnik, 1998.
- Neo-Kantianism and N.Goodman's Constructivism. - IV International Conference "Logical Kant Studies". Kaliningrad, 1997.
- Pluralistic Ontologies in the Constructivist Paradigm. - I Russian Philosophical Congress. St.-Petersburg, 1997 .
- On the Ontological Status of Metalanguage. - Inter-Universities Conference "Particularities of Philosophical Discourse". Moscow, 1997.
- (with A.Cherniak) Functional Bounds of Convention. - 2nd European Congress of Analytic Philosophy. Leeds, 1996 (in Russian).
- On the Metalinguistical Status of the Conception "Meaning as Use". - XI International Conference on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Moscow — Obninsk, 1995. Vol. 5.
Syllabi
- Analytic Philosophy. Moscow, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, 2001 (in Russian).
- Philosophy of Language. Moscow, University of the Russian Academy of Education, 1998 (in Russian).
- Social Epistemology. Moscow, University of the Russian Academy of Education, 1998 (in Russian).
- Critical Thinking. Moscow, Center for Interactive Methods of Education of the Russian Academy of Education, 1998 (in Russian).
- New Informational Technologies. Moscow, University of the Russian Academy of Education, 1997 (in Russian).
Translations
- Roman Ingarden. Time and modes of being (from "The Controversy over the Existence of the World") - Voprosy Filosofii #12, 2006.
- Donald Davidson. On Starmaking. - In: Philosophy of Science. Interdisciplinary Approach. Moscow: Institute of Philosophy of RAS, 2004.
- Donald Davidson. Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation. Moscow: Praxis, 2003 (in collaboration).
- Herbert Spiegelberg. The Phenomenological Movement. Moscow: Logos, 2002 (in collaboration).
- Hilary Putnam. Reason, Truth and History. Moscow: Praxis, 2002 (in collaboration).
- Nelson Goodman. Ways of Worldmaking. Moscow: Logos - Praxis, 2001.
Reviews
- The Eternal in Russian Philosophy by Boris P. Vysheslavtsev - Journal of the American Academy of Religion #4, 2004.
WORK IN PROGRESS
"Meaning, Truth, and Justification", a manuscript presenting a justification-conditional theory of meaning based on the coherence theory of justification
STATE OF MIND
Open. You can e-mail me now.
