Myroslav Popovych (born 12 April 1930, Zhytomyr

Zhytomyr

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) is a Ukrainian philosopher, DA, professor, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Biography

Popovych was born on 12 April 1930 in Zhytomyr

Zhytomyr

Zhytomyr is a city in the North of the western half of Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Zhytomyr Oblast , as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Zhytomyr Raion...

, in the Ukrainian SSR

Ukrainian SSR

The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic or in short, the Ukrainian SSR was a sovereign Soviet Socialist state and one of the fifteen constituent republics of the Soviet Union lasting from its inception in 1922 to the breakup in 1991...

 of the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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 (in present-day Ukraine

Ukraine

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). In 1953 he graduated from the Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev

Kiev

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, philosophy department. From 2001 he is the director of the Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In 2003 he was elected Academician of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences.

Publications

• "On the Philosophical Analysis of the Science Language" ("О философском анализе языка науки") (1966)
• "Logic and Scientific Cognition" ("Логіка і наукове пізнання" (1971)
• "Philosophical Aspects of Semantics" ("Философские вопросы семантики" (1975)
• "Outline of History of Logical Ideas in the Context of Culture and History" ("Очерк истории логических идей в культурно-историческом контексте") (1979)
• "Hryhoriy Skovoroda" ("Григорій Сковорода") (1984, співав.)
• "Outlook of Ancient Slavs" ("Мировозрение древних словян» (1985)
• "Mykola Gogol" ("Микола Гоголь» (1989)
• "Ukraine and Europe: the Rightists and the Leftists" ("Україна і Європа: праві і ліві") (1996)
• "Rationality and Dimensions of Human Life" ("Раціональність і виміри людського буття» (1997)
• "Outline of the History of Ukrainian Culture" ("Нарис історії культури України") (1999)
• "Universal Encyclopedia" ("Універсальний словник-енциклопедія") (1999, chief editor)
• "Red Century" ("Червоне століття") (2005).

External links

• Мирослав Попович отмечает 80-летие (Myroslav Popovych is 80)
• Попович Мирослав Володимирович (Popovych Myroslav Volodymyrovycn)