A professor of Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Kharkiv National University named after V.N. Karazin;
Professor of Philosophy and Political Science of the Kharkiv National University of Economics named after S.Kuznets.
DS,
professor,
academician – Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
Research interests: philosophy and social history of science, human expertise of scientific development, bioethics, the theory of global evolution, theory od anthropogenesis.
V.T.Cheshko have done the comparative socio-historical analysis of the Michurinist genetics in the former USSR, “racial hygiene” in Nazi Germany and eugenics in the US and Western Europe. He came to the conclusion that the factors that led to the rapid rise (and, obviously, to fall too) of Trofim Lysenko are long-term and demonstrated the specific competition between schools and groups of the scientific community in a totalitarian social environment.
He also investigated the socio-cultural and political consequences of turning man into an object of technological manipulation. To substantiate the thesis of the transformation of the so-called High Hume technology in instruments of rationalist targeted control of globally evolutionary process and bundle single stream of scientific knowledge into two components – a risky and warning science.
He developed the concept of the three-modular stable evolutionary strategy of Homo sapiens. In accordance the concept adaptation and evolutionary success of the humanis is achieved by the co-evolutionary interaction of genetic, cultural and technological adaptive modules, each of them has an autonomous system of generating, encoding and replication. This explanatory model is used to evaluate the evolutionary risks of High Hume technologies.
He was Member of the working group of the Commission of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and the history of Soviet genetics and analysis of the consequences of Lysenkoism (1989-1991).
Member of the Editorial Board of the international scientific journal on history of genetics «Folia Mendeliana» (Brno, Czech Republic) and the editorial board of the journals “Social Economy”, “Biological Bulletin” (Ukraine).
Member of the Specialized Scientific Council for doctoral theses of the philosophy of science and the theory of culture at the Kharkov National University named after V.N. Karazin, a member of the organizational and program committees of several national and international scientific symposia and conferences.
Recognition: diploma Ukrainian Association of Bioethics “For significant contribution to the development of bioethics in Ukraine” (2008).
Author of over 200 scientific publications on the philosophy and history of science, bioethics and biopolitics, theory of evolution, including 10 monographs.
