Department of Philosophy

Founded in 1932, the Department now has highly-qualified staff: 11 Doctors, Professors and 8 Candidates of Sciences.

The professors of the Department conduct research in such areas as:

• Self-Organization of Social Systems;
• Current social structural changes in the region;
• Russian Intelligentsia in different regions of Siberia;
• Management of Social Systems;
• Philosophy of Central and East Asian countries;
• Buddhism and Civilization processes in Central Asia and East Asia.

In 1997 the university started publication of “The Newsletter of BSU. A series in Philosophy, Sociology, Political Science, Culturology” journal, which is included in the list of leading Russian peer-reviewed scientific journals where research results of dissertations for the degree of Doctor and Candidate of Sciences are published.

The Department of Philosophy was opened on the basis of History Faculty in 2007. A graduate course in Philosophy of Religion was started in 2012. The Department also offers postgraduate and doctoral courses in such majors as Social Philosophy, Social Structure, Social Institutes and Processes.

The Department has established international links with the Mongolian State University, Zhytomyr University (Ukraine), Szczecinski University (Poland), Heilonjiang University(China), etc.

Location: BSU’s main building, office 0123, telephone +7 (3012)210562