Valerii Zahorodniuk

Valerii Zahorodniuk

Doctor of Sciences in Philosophy, Professor, Head of department of philosophical anthropology of the H.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, NAS of Ukraine

Education: In 1977, graduated with honors from the Faculty of Philosophy at Kyiv State University named after T.H. Shevchenko. After completing postgraduate studies at the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1980, he was enrolled at the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian. In 1981, he defended his candidate dissertation, and in 1992, his doctoral dissertation. In 2006, he was awarded the academic title of professor. In 1988, he interned at the British Academy, delivered lectures at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Oxford University. Since its establishment in 2004, he has been the rector of the Higher School of Philosophy at the H.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Research Interests: Philosophical anthropology, epistemology, philosophy of science.

Publications/Research Activities: Over 160 scientific works, including 3 individual monographs, 2 co-authored individual monographs, chapters in more than 30 collective monographs, and numerous articles in professional journals in Ukraine. Head of planned topics at the Department of Philosophical Anthropology: "The Problem of Man in Ukrainian Realities: Essential and Existential Dimensions" (2019), "Human Identity: Philosophical and Antropological Analysis" (2022), "Diversity of Knowledge and the World of Man in the Context of the Russian-Ukrainian War" (2025).

Teaching Experience: He has worked part-time at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, the Center for Humanitarian Education of the NAS of Ukraine, and the Institute of Political Sciences. He delivers lectures to doctoral students at the H.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the NAS of Ukraine and to students of the Higher School of Philosophy at the H.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the NAS of Ukraine.

Key Publications:

Zahorodniuk V. P. The Goal of Scientific Knowledge (Social-Cultural and Logical-Epistemological Aspects). – Kyiv: Scientific Thought, 1984. – 120 pages.
Zahorodniuk V. P. Goal-Setting in Practice, Culture, and Knowledge. – Kyiv: Scientific Thought, 1991. – 172 pages.
Zagorodniuk V. P. Alternative Models for the Analysis of Social Orders in Science // Anglo-Ukrainian Studies in the Analysis of Scientific Discourse: Reason and Rhetoric. – N.Y., The Edwin Mellen Press, 1993. – p. 21-41.
Bulatov M.O., Zahorodniuk V.P., Solonko L.A., Maleyev K.S. Philosophy of the Noosphere: Philosophical Meaning and Contemporary Sense of the Noosphere Phenomenon. – Kyiv: Scientific Thought, 1995.
Zahorodniuk V. P. Philosophy of Science. – Kyiv: , 1997. – 78 pages.
Bulatov M.O., Zahorodniuk V.P., Maleyev K.S., Solonko L.A. Dialectics Without Apology: Philosophical-Anthropological Aspects. – Kyiv: Scientific Thought, 1998.
Zahorodniuk V. P. Anthropological Dimensions of Knowledge // Philosophical Anthropology in the Context of the Modern Era. – Kyiv: Scientific Thought, 2001. – p. 51-78.
Zahorodniuk V. P. The Anthropological Turn in Linguistics and the Linguistic Turn in Philosophy // Totallogy – XXI. Post-Classical Studies. – Kyiv: 2002. – Issue 7. – p. 254-278.
Philosophy: The World of Man. Lecture Course. – Kyiv, 2003.
Zahorodniuk V. P. Visions of Knowledge and Man in Modern and Postmodern Philosophy // Philosophical Thought, 2006. – Issue 4. – p. 3-21.
Zahorodniuk V.P. Anthropologization of Knowledge: Positive and Negative Aspects // The Borders of Human Existence: Positive and Negative Dimensions of Anthropocultural. – Kyiv: Scientific Thought, 2010.
Zahorodniuk V. P. Anthropocultural and Sociocultural Parameters of Knowledge // Specificity and Defining Dimensions of Contemporary Philosophical-Anthropological Knowledge. – Kyiv: Stylos, 2015. – p. 161-190.
V.P. Zahorodniuk, L.I. Mozgovyi, L.V. Abizova, H.D. Emelianenko. Philosophy of Education and Science. – Kyiv: Knowledge of Ukraine, 2017. – p. 218-336.
Zahorodniuk V.P. Anthropologization of Epistemology // Philosophical Anthropology and Civilizational Challenges of the Present. – Kyiv: Knowledge of Ukraine, 2019.
Zahorodniuk V.P. Ukraine Facing the Challenges of the 21st Century: Ukrainian and Global Contexts // The Problem of Man in Ukrainian Realities: Essential and Existential Dimensions. H.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, 2020. – p. 9-28.
Zahorodniuk V.P. Development of Philosophical Anthropology in the Kyiv Weltanschauung School // Philosophical Thought, Issue 4, 2021. – p. 112-122.
Zahorodniuk V.P. Human Identity: Given or Problem // Human Identity: Philosophical-Anthropological Analysis. Monograph. Kyiv: H.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, NAS of Ukraine, 2023. – p. 8-33.
Zahorodniuk V.P. Man and the Diversity of the World of Knowledge. – Philosophical Thought, Issue 4, 2024. – 1 d.a.

Contacts

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