Notes on Contributors
Natalia Artemenko
is Research Fellow at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany, and the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal HORIZON. Studies in Phenomenology. From 2006 to 2024, she served as Professor of Philosophy at St. Petersburg State University, Russia. She has held research fellowships at the University of Wrocław, Poland (2014); Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany (2014); Heidelberg University (2013); and Ruhr University Bochum, Germany (2002–2003, 2007, 2010, 2011). Her primary areas of specialization are the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century continental philosophy, with a focus on German Idealism—especially Kant—and the phenomenological tradition, including German phenomenology, phenomenological ontology, and French phenomenology. Her recent projects include The Phenomenological Concept of the World (2019–2020) and Theory of Cultural Trauma: Individual Traumatic Experience and the Experience of Historical Catastrophes (2018–2020). She has published more than 150 scholarly articles and translations and edited over 20 volumes. Her major book, Haideggerovskaia “poteriannaia rukopis’” Na puti k “Bytiiu i vremeni”/Zu Martin Heideggers Interpretation von Aristoteles. Der wiederaufgefundene Natorp-Bericht von 1922 (in Russian and German), was published by Gumanitarnaia Akademiia Press in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2012.
Marina F. Bykova
is Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University and Editor-in-Chief of Studies in East European Thought. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century continental philosophy, especially German Idealism, with particular expertise in Fichte and Hegel, as well as on Russian philosophical and intellectual traditions. She is the author or editor of 13 books and has published over 240 scholarly articles in Russian, German, and English. Her recent volumes include The German Idealism Reader: Ideas, Responses, and Legacies (2019), Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature: A Critical Guide (2024) and At the Vanishing Point in History: Critical Perspectives on the Russia-Ukraine War (2025).
Alyssa DeBlasio
is John B. Parsons Chair in the Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Russian at Dickinson College, and the editor of Brill’s book series in Contemporary Russian Philosophy. She is the author of two monographs, The End of Russian Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and The Filmmaker’s Philosopher: Merab Mamardashvili and Russian Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), and a textbook, Pro-dvizhenie: Advanced Russian Through Film and Media (2023). Together with Mikhail Epstein, she edits Filosofia: An Encyclopedia of Russian Thought, the only scholarly electronic resource dedicated to contemporary Russian philosophy.
Alexander L. Dobrokhotov
is a philosopher, a historian of philosophy, and a historian of culture. Since 2022, he has been Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London, UK, and Researcher at the Independent Institute of Philosophy (IPHI), Paris, France. Before relocating to London, he served as an Ordinary Professor of Philosophy at the School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow (2010–2023), a Chair of the Department of History and Theory of World Culture at the Moscow State University (1995–2009), and Chair of the Department of Cultural History at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1988–1995). He serves on the editorial board of Studies in East European Thought. His research focuses on the history of Russian culture, history of philosophy, Kant and German Idealism, and philosophy of culture. His books include Dosokraticheskie ucheniia o bytii (1980), Kategoriia bytiia v klassicheskoi evropeiskoi filosofii (1986), Dante (1990), Izbrannye trudy (2008), Filosofiia kul’tury (2016), and Teleologiia kul’tury (2016).
Michael N. Forster
is Alexander von Humboldt Professor, holder of the Chair in Theoretical Philosophy, and co-director of the International Centre for Philosophy at the University of Bonn (Germany). His work combines historical and systematic aspects. His historical focus is mainly on ancient philosophy and especially German philosophy. His systematic focus is largely on epistemology (especially skepticism) and philosophy of language (in a broad sense that includes hermeneutics and translation-theory). He is the author of numerous books. His key publications include Herder: Philosophical Writings (2002), Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar (2004), Kant and Skepticism (2008), After Herder: Philosophy of Language in the German Tradition (2010), German Philosophy of Language: From Schlegel to Hegel and Beyond (2011), and Herder’s Philosophy (2018). He is also the co-editor of several volumes, including most recently The Palgrave Handbook of Russian Thought (2021) and Romanticism, Philosophy, and Literature (2020).
Vittorio Hösle
is the holder of the Frederick Adelmann Chair in the Philosophy Department of Boston College in Boston, USA, and Emeritus Paul Kimball Chair at the University of Notre Dame. He received his Ph.D. (1982) and Dr. Habil. (1986) in philosophy from the University of Tübingen in Germany. Before joining the University of Notre Dame, he held faculty appointments at the New School for Social Research in New York, the University of Essen, and was a Heisenberg Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. A member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences since 2013, Hösle is the author of over 40 books, which have been translated into 20 languages. His recent publications include Morals and Politics (2004), Woody Allen (2007), The Philosophical Dialogue (2013), God as Reason (2013), Vico’s New Science of the Intersubjective World (2016), Eric Rohmer (2016), A Short History of German Philosophy (2018), Mit dem Rücken zu Russland: Der Ukrainekrieg und die Fehler des Westens (2022), and Reid, Kant und die Geschichte der Erkenntnistheorie (2025).
Hans-Dieter Klein
is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria and a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He began his academic career studying music composition at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, earning the diploma of künstlerische Reife (“artistic maturity”). He has composed 86 musical works, several of which were performed in Vienna and Klosterneuburg. He later turned to philosophy, completing his studies and earning his doctorate at the University of Vienna. One of his central philosophical concerns is the investigation of the conditions of existence for systems of philosophy, from Leibniz to the present. He is the author of the four-volume System der Philosophie (2002–2006), a comprehensive project encompassing metaphysics, logic, ethics, and aesthetics. Klein was the founder and long-serving president of the Internationale Gesellschaft “System der Philosophie” and for many years edited the Wiener Jahrbuch für Philosophie. Since 2013, he has co-organized and co-edited the Maimonides Lectures with P. Giampieri-Deutsch. Held semiannually at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, this distinguished lecture series fosters intercultural and interreligious dialogue in philosophy.
Maija Kūle
is Professor Emerita and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Latvia in Riga. She is a full member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences and an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg. Kūle has been a longstanding member of the Commission on the Dialogue of Cultures (CD) of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP) and has served on the organizing committees of three World Philosophy Congresses (Istanbul, Seoul, Athens). Her research spans hermeneutics, phenomenology, European values and life forms, and Latvian culture. She is the scientific editor of Analecta Husserliana, vol. 124 (Springer), devoted to the emerging field of eco-phenomenology. She has authored over 200 academic papers on the history of philosophy, culture, ethics of human rights, and topics related to Edmund Husserl, Teodors Celms, Zenta Mauriņa, Staņislavs Ladusāns SJ, Edith Stein, feminist ethics, national identity, rhythm, and fundamental phenomena. She recently developed the concept of the Age of Will, with related publications forthcoming in 2025.
Julia B. Mehlich
is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy of Natural Sciences at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation. Her research focuses on the history of Russian philosophy in its interaction with European philosophical traditions. She has written extensively on personalism, Neo-Kantianism, and pragmatism, and her recent work explores the thought of contemporary Russian personalists and the role of historical collective individualities such as Slavophilism and Eurasianism. She is the author of numerous scholarly publications. Her recent books include Personalizm L.P. Karsavina i evropeiskaia filosofiia (2003), Irratsional’noe rasshirenie filosofii I. Kanta v Rossii (2014), and Lev Karsavin (2019).
Steffen H. Mehlich
is Director of the Sponsorship and Network Department at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Bonn, Germany, where he oversees programs supporting international research fellows and award recipients, as well as the global Humboldt Network of over 31,000 members. He studied philosophy and Russian at the Belarusian State University in Minsk and received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Berlin Institute of International Politics and Economics. He later conducted postdoctoral research at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), supported by a Daimler-Benz Fellowship through the Donors’ Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Humanities in Germany, before joining the Humboldt Foundation in 1991. In recognition of his longstanding contribution to fostering German-Russian academic cooperation, he was named an honorary member of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2014. His research focuses on the history of Russian philosophy and its dialogue with German thought. In recent years, he has co-edited several Special Issues of Russian Studies in Philosophy (Taylor & Francis), including Russian Neo-Kantianism (2016), Philosophy of Right in Russia (2020), and The Philosophy Steamer (2022).
Ludwig Nagl
is Associate University Professor Emeritus at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria. He has held numerous international academic appointments, including Assistant Professor at Millersville State University, Pennsylvania (1970–71), Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s Department of Philosophy (1987) and at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (1996), Guest Professor at the University of Jena (1993), and Visiting Professor at St. Petersburg University, Russia (2011). His research interests span contemporary philosophy of religion, philosophical pragmatism, and post-Hegelian thought. His recent publications include Das verhüllte Absolute: Essays zur zeitgenössischen Religionsphilosophie (2010), Toward a Global Discourse on Religion in a Secular Age: Essays on Philosophical Pragmatism (2021), and the edited volumes Essays zu Jacques Derrida und Gianni Vattimo: ‘Religion’ (2001), Religion nach der Religionskritik (Berlin, 2003), and Viele Religionen—eine Vernunft? Ein Disput zu Hegel (2008). He also guest-edited the symposium on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age for Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie (2009) and the Special Issue “Contemporary Ethics and Religion: Kantian and Kant-Critical Theories” for the Kantian Journal (Kaliningrad, 2021).
Herta Nagl-Docekal
is University Professor Emerita at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria. She is a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a titular member of the Institut International de Philosophie. From 2008 to 2013, she served as Vice-President of FISP, the International Federation of Philosophical Societies. She has held visiting professorships at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, the Free University of Berlin, the University of Konstanz, J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and the University of St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. In recognition of her scholarly contributions, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Basel, Switzerland, in 2022. Her recent publications include the Special Issue Contemporary Ethics and Religion: Kantian and Kant–Critical Theories for the Kantian Journal in Kaliningrad (guest editor, 2021), Artificial Intelligence and Human Enhancement: Affirmative and Critical Approaches in the Humanities (co-ed., 2022), and Religion in the Secular Age (co-ed., 2023). Among her earlier works are Der Sinn des Historischen (co-ed., 1969), Postkoloniales Philosophieren: Afrika (co-ed., 1992), Feminist Philosophy (2004), Glauben und Wissen: Ein Symposium mit Jürgen Habermas (co-ed., Berlin, 2007), Innere Freiheit: Grenzen der nachmetaphysischen Moralkonzeptionen (2014), and Leibniz heute lesen: Wissenschaft, Geschichte, Religion (ed., 2018).
Randall A. Poole
is Professor of Intellectual History at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota, USA, co-director of the Northwestern University Research Initiative in Russian Philosophy, Literature, and Religious Thought, and a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University School of Law. His research focuses on Russian intellectual history, with particular emphasis on philosophy, religion, and liberal thought. He is the translator and editor of Problems of Idealism: Essays in Russian Social Philosophy (2003) and co-editor of several major volumes, including A History of Russian Philosophy, 1830–1930: Faith, Reason, and the Defense of Human Dignity (2010; revised ed. 2013), Religious Freedom in Modern Russia (2018), The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought (2020), Evgenii Trubetskoi: Icon and Philosophy (2021), and Law and the Christian Tradition in Modern Russia (2022). He has also published numerous articles and book chapters on Russian philosophy, religious thought, and intellectual history.
Yulia Sineokaya
is a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She is currently an Associate Researcher at the Centre for the History of Modern Philosophy (HIPHIMO) at Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne Université and at the Europe–Eurasia Research Centre (CREE) of the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in France. She also serves as President of the professional association “Independent Institute of Philosophy” (IPHI) in Paris, France. Before relocating to France, she served as the Deputy Director and the Head of the Department of the History of Western Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on the interrelations between Russian and European philosophical traditions, the history of Russian philosophy from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Russian Nietzscheanism, and the concept of philosophical generations. She is the author of one monograph and more than 170 scholarly articles and has edited or co-edited over a dozen collective volumes. Her recent editorial projects include Nietzsche segodnia (2019), Repliki: Filosofskie besedy (2021), Filosofiia vo mnozhestvennom chisle, vols. 1 and 2 (co-ed., 2020), and Filosofskie pokoleniia (2022).
Marietta T. Stepanyants
is Chief Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia, where she founded and directed the Department of Eastern Philosophies, which later became the Center for Eastern Philosophies Studies (1980–2012). She was also the founder and holder of the UNESCO Chair in “Philosophy in the Dialogue of Cultures” (2008–2020). A leading scholar in comparative philosophy, she headed the research division “Comparative Philosophy and the Dialogue of Cultures” and served as First Vice-President of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP) from 2008 to 2013. Her research focuses on the history of Eastern philosophies—especially Islamic thought and modern Indian philosophy—as well as philosophical comparativism and intercultural dialogue. She is the author of more than 20 monographs, over 300 scholarly articles, and editor of more than 30 collective volumes. Among her books are Sufi Wisdom (1994), Gandhi and the World Today (1998), Religion and Identity in Modern Russia: The Revival of Orthodoxy and Islam (co-ed., 2005), Philosophy and Science in Cultures of East and West (2014), Mezhkul’turnaia filosofiia: Proiskhozhdenie, metodologiia, problemy i perspektivy (2020), and Sravnitel’naia filosofiia: ot sravnitelnogo k mezhkul’turnomu (2022).
Jürgen Stolzenberg
is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. He is a Corresponding Member of the Philological-Historical Class of the Lower Saxony Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and currently serves as Chairman of the Inter-Academic Editorial Commission of the Leibniz-Edition. He is also a member of the Commission for the Inter-Academic Project Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi: Correspondence. Text, Commentary, Dictionary Online, a member of the Directorate of the Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of the European Enlightenment (IZEA), and a founding member of the International Centre for Classical Research in Weimar. Stolzenberg’s research spans Kant and German Idealism, Neo-Kantianism, phenomenology (especially Heidegger), aesthetics, and the philosophy of music. His major publications include Fichtes Begriff der intellektuellen Anschauung (1986), Ursprung und System (1995), “Seine Ichheit auch in der Musik heraustreiben”: Formen expressiver Subjektivität in der Musik der Moderne (2011), and the three-volume Kant-Dictionary (2015). He is also founder and co-editor of the International Yearbook of German Idealism (with Karl Ameriks and Fred Rush, 2003–2012), and editor of Ausdruck in der Musik. Theorien und Formationen (2021). He also prepared the historical–critical edition of the correspondence between Christian Wolff and Ernst Christoph von Manteuffel (2019) and has authored numerous articles on Kant, Fichte, and themes in post-Kantian philosophy.
Evert van der Zweerde
is Professor of Political Philosophy at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He studied philosophy and Russian language at the universities of Nijmegen, Moscow State University (MGU), and Fribourg, Switzerland. He earned his PhD in 1994 with a dissertation on philosophy in the former USSR. His research focuses on political philosophy—particularly civil society, ideology, and democracy—and Russian philosophy, with special attention to political philosophy, political theology, and figures such as Vladimir Solovoyov, Sergei Frank, Maria Skobtsova, Alexandra Kollontai, Merab Mamardashvili, Evald Ilyenkov, and Alexander Dugin. He serves as associate editor of Studies in East European Thought and is president of the advisory board of the Dutch Institute in St. Petersburg. His major publications include Futures of Democracy (2014, co-authored) and Russian Political Philosophy: Anarchy, Authority, Autocracy (2022). A collection of his articles on Soviet and Russian philosophy was published in Russian as Vzgliad so storony (2017).
Kenneth R. Westphal
is a member of the Academia Europaea (elected in 2020) and an Executive Editor of SATS—Northern European Journal of Philosophy. He has held two full professorships in England and one in Istanbul; he has served as a Visiting Professor in the USA and Germany. Since retiring in 2021, he resides in Trieste, Italy. His research focuses on the character and scope of rational justification in non-formal, substantive domains, both moral (ethics, justice, history and philosophy of law, philosophy of education) and theoretical (epistemology, the history and philosophy of science). He has published nine monographs, including four books on Kant and five on Hegel. He has also edited seven volumes of commissioned research and authored nearly 200 research articles. His most recent books include Grounds of Pragmatic Realism: Hegel’s Internal Critique & Transformation of Kant’s Critical Philosophy (2018), Hegel’s Civic Republicanism: Integrating Natural Law with Kant’s Moral Constructivism (2020), and Kant’s Critical Epistemology: Why Epistemology Must Consider Judgment First (2021).