From Under the Rubble: Logic and Philosophy of Logic in the USSR and the Ideologized Science Phenomenon

Abstract

The assessment of Soviet logic and philosophy of logic development in the 20th and even the dawn of the twenty-first century shows the tight correlation between state policy towards higher education and the official attitude towards these fields of research. Progressive stages of Russia’s/Soviet State evolvement are marked with positive treatment of logic and philosophy of logic. Reactionary stages may be described in the context of the so-called ideologized science phenomenon, and they are marked by negative treatment of philosophy of logic and even logic as a field of research, stagnation, or, at worst, total abandonment of logical education. This correlation has not been studied well enough. We will fulfill this lacuna from the social studies of science perspective.

Keywords:

• Ideologized Science Phenomenon
• Marxism
• Logic in the USSR/Russia
• Philosophy of Logic

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Valentin A. Bazhanov

Valentin A. Bazhanov is a professor at the Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences. His research includes history and philosophy of science, especially history of logic in Russia and the USSR, philosophy of logic and philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, and political philosophy.