Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies
| Abbreviation | MCCS |
|---|---|
| Established | 2009 |
| Purpose | Research in the field of Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness Studies, Free Will, Moral Responsibility and Personal Identity problem |
| Headquarters | Russia |
| Location |
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Key people | Vadim Vasiliev, Dmitry Volkov, Robert Howell |
| Website | hardproblem.ru |
Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies (MCCS) is a research unit at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University, it focuses on the mind-body problem, free will, moral responsibility, artificial intelligence and personal identity.[1]
History[edit]
The Center was founded in 2009 at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University at a joint initiative of professor Vadim Vasiliev and Dmitry Volkov. The Center’s field of research is philosophy of consciousness, as well as problems of personal identity, free will and moral responsibility. It collaborates with the global scientific community and popularizes analytic philosophy in Russia.[2][3][4]
Since summer 2014, Center started to hold summer schools where it gathers young scholars and world lead experts in philosophy.[5]
Structure and activities[edit]
Center is affiliated to Faculty of Philosophy of the Moscow State University and focuses on the mind-body problem, free will, moral responsibility, artificial intelligence and personal identity. Center has 7 employees, who performs lectures at the Faculty of Philosophy and other MSU faculties and, time to time, attend to a various events aimed at popularizing science to promote philosophy.[6] Center works in collaboration with a different philosophers and organizations over the globe. It attends to a different events abroad and organizes its own with the participation of invited foreign experts such as John Searle,[7] John Fisher,[8] Richard Swinburne,[3] Daniel Dennett[9] and Derk Pereboom.[4] Another part of their work is organizing summer schools where students gather to study under the direction of the world's leading experts of the different philosophical disciplines.[4][5][10][11][12][13]
The Center's team participated in the preparation of an issue of the " Logos" journal, dedicated to the free will problem[14], and an issue of the "Epistemology and Philosophy of Science" journal. Another project of MCCS is the translation of selected articles of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy into Russian.[6]
Management[edit]
The activities of the organization are determined by the Center’s co-directors: MSU professors V. V. Vasiliev, D. V. Volkov and Robert Howell. Anton Kuznetsov, Artem Besedin, Andrey Mertsalov and Evgeny Loginov report to them directly.
The Center's Board of Trustees also includes:
- Patricia Churchland, Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of California, San Diego
- Paul Churchland,Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego
- Derk Pereboom, Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University.
- Jesse Prinz, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York
References[edit]
- ↑ "Центр исследования сознания | Философский факультет" (in русский). philos.msu.ru. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
- ↑ Жданов, Владимир (2019). О природе сознания человека (in русский). Litres. ISBN 9785041117344. Search this book on
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ольга Липич (2018-06-25). "Президент Мальты пригласила философов из России на дискуссию во дворец". РИА Новости.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Летняя философская школа Московского центра исследования сознания завершила свою работу на Мальте". snob.ru. Retrieved 2020-04-16.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "В поисках чистого разума: зачем российский бизнесмен собрал философскую экспедицию | ForbesLife". Forbes.ru. 2014-08-29. Retrieved 2020-04-16.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Московский центр исследования сознания" (in русский). Philosophy.ru. 2020-06-16. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
- ↑ Левин Сергей Михайлович (2011). "Сёрл в Москве: фрагменты события". Vestnik Leningradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta Imeni A.s. Pushkina. (Вестник Ленинградского государственного университета им. А.С. Пушкина ed.). 2 (2). ISSN 1818-6653.CS1 maint: Date and year (link)
- ↑ "Международная летняя школа "Свобода воли и моральная ответственность" - конференция | ИСТИНА – Интеллектуальная Система Тематического Исследования Наукометрических данных". istina.msu.ru. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
- ↑ "Why can't the world's greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness?". The Guardian. 2015-01-21. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
- ↑ "Философ с Домской площади :: Freecity.lv". www.freecity.lv. Retrieved 2020-04-16.
- ↑ "Дерк Перебум: "Мы добьемся большего, если перестанем наказывать обидчиков"" (in русский). www.psychologies.ru. Retrieved 2020-04-16.
- ↑ Staff, Guardian (2015-01-28). "A way forward to solve the hard problem of consciousness | Letters". The Guardian. 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-04-16.
- ↑ Burkeman, Oliver (2015-01-21). "Why can't the world's greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness?". The Guardian. 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-04-16.
- ↑ "Журнал Логос". www.logosjournal.ru. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- In search of pure reason: why a Russian businessman has assembled a philosophical expedition Forbes, 29.08.2014
- Так или эдак, а может никак // What Russian philosophers argue about
- What is philosophy of mind?
- Moscow Center for Consciousness Research will open an international online school
- Summer School of the Moscow Center for the Study of Consciousness
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