Kazyutinsky Vadim Vasylyevich General data:
11.08.1932 - 03.10.2012
Place of birth: Kiev City, Kiev region Ukrainian SSR
Studied in: T. G. Shevchenko Kyiv State University (since 1999 Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University) (1956);
Key interests: cosmology, astronomy, philosophy. ScD Thesis: Traditions and revolutions in Modern Astronomy (1993 Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences);
Biography:
He was born on August 11, 1932, in Kiev City of Kiev region of the Ukrainian SSR.
In 1956 he graduated from Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University for the speciality "astronomy".
In 1961 he graduated from the postgraduate studies at the Institute of Philosophy of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Since 1956, since 1962, an employee of the Institute of Philosophy of the USSR Academy of Sciences (RAS) in Moscow City. During 1956-1958 he worked as a senior laboratory assistant, and from 1962 onwards as a junior researcher, from 1968 as a senior research fellow, since 1990 as a leading research fellow, since 2005 as a senior research fellow.
He received the scientific degree of Doctor of Philosophy, having defended in 1993 (according to other data in 1999) at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences a doctoral dissertation "Traditions and Revolution in Modern Astronomy" on the specialty "Philosophy of Science and Technology". The candidate's dissertation was defended until 1972.
In 1991, he became a full member of the K. E. Tsiolkovsky Cosmic Sciences Academy.
For many years he directed the section of philosophy at the Central House of Scientists in Moscow City. He was head of the Philosophical Seminar at the P.K. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute. For many years he was the head of the philosophical section at the annual Scientific Readings in the memory of K. E. Tsiolkovsky in Kaluga city.
Since 2002 he was a member of the editorial board of the magazine "Earth and the Universe". He was also an editor in other scientific and philosophical publications, in particular, "Works of the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR".
In 2009, the philosopher-astronomer was awarded with a diploma "For a great contribution to the careful preservation, study, popularization of the history of the development of outer space" and a diploma for many years of fruitful work and in connection with the 80th anniversary of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
On October 3, 2012, after a severe and prolonged illness, he died. Buried on Khovansky cemetery in Moscow City.
Areas of scientific work of the scientist include philosophy and methodology of science, philosophical foundations of astronomy, cosmology and the search for extraterrestrial civilizations, the problem of the interconnection of traditions and revolution in scientific knowledge. Also researched Russian cosmicism, especially cosmic philosophy of K. E. Tsiolkovsky in the context of world culture. The analysis of the concept of "world" in the philosophical context and the concept "universe" in cosmology led the scientist to a conclusion on the profound difference between their content. The universe can not be regarded as "all existing" in the sense of an absolute, it is only a relative and transient boundary known in the megacity, that is, "all existing" only in terms of this model or theory. Proceeding from this, the proposed principle of multiplicity of the universes, now realized in quantum cosmology. Considerable attention was paid to the interpretation of the destruction of the anthropic principle (AP): strong and weak anthropic principles, the finalist anthropic principle in non-quantum and quantum cosmology. Study of cosmic philosophy K. E. Tsiolkovsky led the scholar to conclude that its main ideas and meanings arose at the intersection of the Folk traditions of the West and the East, the antinomy of this concept involves the antinomy of culture of the end of XX century. He is the author of about 500 articles in Russian journals on philosophy, as well as in the fundamental works of the Institute of Philosophy, some of them translated into other languages.
Main publications:
1. Всехсвятский С. К. , Казютинский В. В. Рождение миров.- К.: 1961.-176 с.
2. Казютинский В. В. Революция в астрономии. М., 1968
3. Казютинский В. В. Методологические и мировоззренческие аспекты антропного (антропологического) принципа в космологии // К.Э.Циолковский и проблемы развития науки и техники. М., 1986
4. Казютинский В. В. Философские проблемы космологии. М., 1970. -31 с.
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