MAXIM LEBEDEV
PERSONAL INFORMATION
EDUCATION
1977 — 1983
Moscow State Linguistics University (then — Moscow State Institute of
Foreign Languages)
M.A., Linguistics
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
Ph.D., Philosophy
QUALIFICATION
Doctorate in philosophy (1997)
on the dissertation "Philosophical grounds
of the stability of linguistic sign" at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
Moscow. Advisor - Prof. Arcady Blinov.
LANGUAGES
English — fluent
French — fluent
Russian — native
others — as required :)
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
Doc. hab.
2000 — now
Institiute of the Philosophy
of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Senior Researcher
2000 — now
Peoples' Friendship University
of Russia
Dept. of History of Philosophy
Assosiate Professor
CONFERENCES
1995
- XI International Conference on
Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Moscow — Obninsk
1996
- 2nd European Congress of Analytic
Philosophy. Leeds
1997
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 Interdisceplinary Synthesis". Tomsk
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)
1991 - 1994
"Doctors Without
Borders" (Medecins Sans Frontières)
Social Program
1994 - 1997
Novyi Dom Charity
Executive Director
1996 - 1997
NGO Intermediary Project
(TACIS)
2003 - now
Charitable Library Foundation
Project Manager
BASIC PUBLICATIONS
Books
Articles
- Starmaking: Who Needs It?
—
In: Philosophy of Science. Interdisciplinary Approach. M., 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.
M., Praxis, 2003 (in Russian).
- Non-Linearity of
Epistemological Justification —
In: Philosophy of Science. Synergetics of People-Dimensional Reality. M.,
Institute of Philosophy of RAS, 2002 (in Russian).
- Hilary Putnam and
Traditional Philosophy. —
In: H.Putnam. Reason, Truth and History. Russian translation. M., Praxis,
2002 (in Russian).
- Dynamic Causal Theory
of Reference. —
Logos
¹4, 2001 (in Russian).
- Goodman's World
Technologies. —
In: N.Goodman. Ways of Worldmaking. Russian translation. Ì., 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. Manila, 2000.
- The Problem of Following the Rule
in the Philosophy of Mathematics of Wittgenstein. — In: Styles and Methods
of Mathematical Thinking (coll.). Moscow, 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).
- Linguistic Convention: an Essay
of Genetic Analysis. — Filosofskie Issledovania (Philosophical
Investigations), ¹3,
1996 (in Russian).
Papers delivered at conferences
- Desacralisation of Philology.
- Conference "Philosophy and Philology: Aspects of Interdisciplinary
Synthesis". Tomsk, 2003 (in Russian).
- Statistical Analysis
in Linguistics. - Conference
"Probabilistic Ideas in Science". Novosibirsk, 2003 (in Russian).
- Catholic Probabilism and its Influence
at Modern Epistemology. - Conference "Probabilistic Ideas in Science".
Novosibirsk, 2003 (in Russian).
- 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).
- Causal Reference as Intersection
of Idiolects. - 4th
European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, Lund, 2002.
- 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".
SPb, 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 (in Russian).
- 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 (in Russian).
- 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 (in Russian).
- Pluralistic Ontologies in the
Constructivist Paradigm. - I Russian Philosophical Congress. St.-Petersburg,
1997 (in Russian).
- On the Ontological Status of Metalanguage.
- Inter-Universities Conference "Particularities of Philosophical Discourse".
Moscow, 1997 (in Russian).
- Functional
Bounds of Convention. - 2nd European Congress of Analytic Philosophy.
Leeds, 1996.
- 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 (in Russian).
Syllabi
- Analitical 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, Peoples'
Friendship University of Russia, 1998 (in Russian).
- Critical Thinking. Moscow, Center
for Interactive Methods of Education, 1998 (in Russian).
- New Informational Technologies.
Moscow, University of the Russian Academy of Education, 1997 (in Russian).
Translations
- Donald Davidson.
On Starmaking. - In:
Philosophy of Science. Interdisciplinary Approach. M., Institute of Philosophy
of RAS, 2004.
- Donald Davidson.
Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation. M., Praxis, 2003 (in collaboration).
- Herbert Spiegelberg.
The Phenomenological Movement. M., Logos, 2002 (in collaboration).
- Hilary Putnam. Reason, Truth and History. Ì., Praxis,
2002 (in collaboration).
- Nelson Goodman. Ways of Worldmaking.
M., Praxis, 2001.
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.
