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114Narrativization of human population genetics: Two cases in Iceland and RussiaPublic Understanding of Science 33 (3): 370-386. 2024.Using the two cases of the Icelandic Health Sector Database and Russian initiatives in biobanking, the article criticizes the view of narratives and imaginaries as a sufficient and unproblematic means of shaping public understanding of genetics and justifying population-wide projects. Narrative representations of national biobanking engage particular imaginaries that are not bound by the universal normative framework of human rights, promote affective thinking, distract the public from recognizi…Read more
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111Scientific perspectivism: realism, antirealism, or a new paradigm? / Научный перспективизм: реализм, антиреализм или новая парадигма?Tomsk State University Journal of Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science 70 (4): 80-90. 2022.The current state of philosophy of science is characterized by stasis in the struggle between realism and antirealism. In recent years, a number of authors have come out with a program of scientific perspectivism that claims to sublate this great collision and gain the status of a new epistemological paradigm: “perspectivism, or, better, perspectival realism, is one of the newest attempts to find a middle ground between scientific realism and antirealism” [1. P. 2]. Important milestones of the p…Read more
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9Philosophy and Neurosciences: Perspectives for InteractionRUDN Journal of Philosophy 27 (4): 835-847. 2023.The study analyzes modern reductivist and antireductivist approaches to understanding the interaction between philosophy and neuroscience. It analyzes the content and grounds for using the concepts of neuroscience and neurosciences, philosophy of neuroscience, and neurophilosophy. The milestones in the development of neuroreductivism, from Patricia Churchland’s arguments in support of intertheoretic reduction through Francis Crick’s eliminativism to John Bickle’s ruthless reductionism, are descr…Read more
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244Kant and "tabula Russia"Con-Textos Kantianos 18. 2023.The article offers an attempt to understand the present state of Kant’s legacy in Russia on the threshold of the Tercentenary. An explanans is found in the metaphors of “ tabula rasa ” and “unplowed virgin soil,” first used by Leibniz in relation to Russia in his letters and memoranda addressed to tsar Peter I and other members of the Russian elite, which became the country’s “absolute metaphors to live by” up to present time. Several known and unknown episodes from the history of the reception …Read more
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142History of Perspectivism and the Status of Perspectivist Concepts / История перспективизма и статус перспективистских понятийVestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies 39 (2): 249-260. 2023.In recent decades, perspectivism has developed into an epistemological research program claiming its independence. This autonomy stems from Perspectivism’s potential ability to resolve the contradictions between realist and constructivist programs. Perspectivism is based on the idea that the object depends on perspective, which constitutes any subjective attempt to cognize it. Perspectivists reconstruct and explain the factors involved in the formation of perspective, identifying the conditional…Read more
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27Reclaiming the “Cultural Mandate”: The Idea of Sustainable Development in the Kantian PerspectiveKantian Journal 42 (2): 68-94. 2023.In the Club of Rome report Come on! Capitalism, Short-Termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet (2018) Kant, along with other “old” Enlighteners, is presented as the father of a world-view which led to the destabilisation of the environment in which humanity exists. The authors of the report argue that the “old Enlightenment” with its individualism, faith in the market and a consumerist attitude to nature should be scrapped. I maintain that this assessment of Kant’s philosophy is gro…Read more
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6Kant and Social Policies. Ed. by Andrea Faggion, Alessandro Pinzani, and Nuria Sánchez Madrid. London: Palgrave Macmillan 2016. 177 p. ISBN 978-3-319-42658-7 (review)Kant Studien 109 (4): 650-654. 2018.
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15Kant’s Menschheit and Its InterpretationsCon-Textos Kantianos 14 327-343. 2021.This paper offers a contextual, textual and conceptual study of Kant’s notion of humanity and its current interpretations. Its argument is directed against the interpretation of humanity as merely “the capacity to set oneself an end - any end whatsoever”. Kant’s sources, his usage of the word ‘ Menschheit ’ and its conceptual functions suggest a more complex reading that includes not only individualist, but also collectivist, essentialist and personalist meanings. These four meanings are separat…Read more
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498Immanuel Kant - Racist and Colonialist?Kantian Journal 39 (2): 94-98. 2020.A murder of an Afro-American detainee by a policeman at the end of May 2020 caused a public outrage in the United States, which led to a campaign against the monuments to historical figures whose reputation, according to the protesters, was marred by racism. Some German publicists, impressed by the campaign, initiated an analogous search for racists among the national thinkers and politicians of the past. Suddenly Kant emerged as a ‘scapegoat’. This statement is an attempt to assess such reactio…Read more
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22Kant’s Ethics in the Context of the Enlightenment. Report of the 12th Kant Readings ConferenceKantian Journal 38 (4): 101-118. 2019.This review covers the content of reports and discussions at the 12th Kant Readings Conference held in April 2019 and organised by the research unit of the Academia Kantiana of the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad. Traditionally, Kant Readings have been thematically universal, embracing all the areas of Kant’s legacy. This time the conference focused on practical philosophy, i.e. the historical grounds and modern significance of Kant’s ethical thought as compared to other phi…Read more
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4Rationality in Machiavelli and in KantCon-Textos Kantianos 4 89-97. 2016.The paper contains interpretation and comparative analysis of Machiavelli’s and Kant’s conceptions on rationality as two prime examples of “realist” and “idealist” modes of agency. Kantian model of rationality is viewed as an augmentation of the Machiavellian one, not an opposition to it. To elaborate the point, Robert Aumann’s model of act-rationality and rulerationality is applied to the two philosophical models. Kantian practical reason is interpreted as an addition to Aumann’s instrumental r…Read more
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3Presentation of the editors: Kant in Eastern EuropeCon-Textos Kantianos 4 32-34. 2016.The monographic section of Con-Textos Kantianos No. 4 entitled Kant in Eastern Europe provides an insight into the work of authors dealing with Kant’s philosophy in Russia and other Eastern European countries.
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8An Interpretation of Rawls’ “Kantian InterpretationCon-Textos Kantianos 1 142-155. 2015.Calling Kant a liberal philosopher requires important qualifications. Much like his theoretical philosophy, his political transcendentalism was and remains a great enterprise of navigating between the extremes of liberalism and conservatism, of balancing the “empirical” and the “pure” in human society, as well as in human mind. Of all the attempts to enlist Kant among the classics of liberalism, John Rawls’ is the most impressive and thorough. However, it is hardly a success. The reason for this…Read more
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345Denying Liberty in Order to Make Room for Freedom: Liberalism, Conservatism, and Kant's Political PhilosophyVoprosi Filosofii (The Problems of Philosophy) 9 66-78. 2015.The aim of this essay is to clarify the meaning and extent of Kant's liberalism by contrasting some of his key ideas to those of Burke, Hobbes, Machiavelli, Nozick, Rawls, and Schmitt. My claim is that Kant's political philosophy navigates the path between the extremes of liberalism and conservatism, just as his theoretical philosophy tries to navigate between dogmatism and skepticism, and that current liberal claim on Kant has important limitations in Kant's letter, as well as in spirit.
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26Kantianism and Anti-Kantianism in Russian Revolutionary ThoughtCon-Textos Kantianos 8 218-241. 2018.This paper restates and subjects to analysis the polemics in Russian pre-revolutionary Populist and Marxist thought that concerned Kant’s practical philosophy. In these polemics Kantian ideas influence and reinforce the Populist personalism and idealism, as well as Marxist revisionist reformism and moral universalism. Plekhanov, Lenin, and other Russian “orthodox Marxists” heavily criticize both trends. In addition, they generally view Kantianism as a “spiritual weapon” of the reactionary bourge…Read more
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45Kant and Social Policies. Ed. by Andrea Faggion, Alessandro Pinzani, and Nuria Sánchez Madrid. London: Palgrave Macmillan 2016. 177 p. ISBN 978-3-319-42658-7 (review)Kant Studien 109 (4): 650-654. 2016.Name der Zeitschrift: Kant-Studien Jahrgang: 109 Heft: 4 Seiten: 650-654.
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32An Interpretation of Rawls’ “Kantian InterpretationCon-Textos Kantianos 1 142-155. 2015.Calling Kant a liberal philosopher requires important qualifications. Much like his theoretical philosophy, his political transcendentalism was and remains a great enterprise of navigating between the extremes of liberalism and conservatism, of balancing the “empirical” and the “pure” in human society, as well as in human mind. Of all the attempts to enlist Kant among the classics of liberalism, John Rawls’ is the most impressive and thorough. However, it is hardly a success. The reason for this…Read more
Vadim Chaly
Moscow State University
Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
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Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal UniversityResearch Fellow (Part-time)
Higher Attestation Commission of Russia
Alumnus, 2004
Areas of Specialization
History of Western Philosophy |
Immanuel Kant |
Russian Philosophy |
History of Political Philosophy |
Normative Ethics |
PhilPapers Editorships
Russian Philosophy |