Employees of the Department of FS

In the year of 2007, he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy, V. N. KarazinKharkiv National University in the specialty “The philosopher, lecturer of philosophical disciplines”, with distinction. He is Candidate of Philosophy, Specialty09.00.03. – Social Philosophy and Philosophy of History. The subject of the thesis is “Antithetic of positive and natural law in sphere of legitimation of policy”, ДК №068111.In the year of 2018, he obtained rankof Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy and Sociology, АД №000898.

Scope of scientific interests: Social Philosophy (legitimation of policy); History of Philosophy (Philosophy of American critical realism by George Santayana); sociology (sociology of transport).

Author of 76 scientific publications and teaching materials, which 61 articles, 11 study guides for students, two textbooks (co-author).

Member of the Sociological Association of Ukraine (SAU).

PhD degree awarded in 2006. He defended his PhD thesis at the Specialized Scientific Board K 64.702.05 in the Ivan Kozhedub Kharkiv University of Air Forces in specialty 09.00.03 – Social philosophy and philosophy of history.

On September 1, 2006, he was employed as an assistant lecturer at the Departments of Philosophy and Sociology at the Ukrainian State Academy of Railway Transport. From 2007 to 2010, he was a senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Sociology at the Ukrainian State Academy of Railway Transport. On September 1, 2010, he became an associate professor of the Department of Philosophy and Sociology of the Ukrainian State Academy of Railway Transport.

Scope of scientific interests: Information society and prospects for its development in Ukraine (socio-philosophical analysis). New approaches to media communications. Information space and its features. Media as a social engineering tool.

Author of 78 scientific publications and teaching materials: including 50 scientific works, 1 monograph, 4 curricular publications, and 5 publications in the Encyclopaedia of Political Science, 9 publications in the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Sociology of law.

Member of the Sociological Association of Ukraine (SAU).

In 1982 he graduated from the Department  of Philosophy at Taras Shevchenko State University of Kyiv (today Taras Shevchenko National University), having received the specialty of philosopher and lecturer of philosophical disciplines.

Since 1982 he has been working at the Department of Philosophy and Sociology (formerly Philosophy and Scientific Communism). In 1988, after graduation from Taras Shevchenko State University of Kyiv, defended his PhD thesis in philosophy. In 1991 he was awarded the academic title of associate professor. At the Ukrainian State University of Railway Transport he went from assistant, senior lecturer, associate professor to the dean of the Faculty of Humanities. From 1996 to 2010 he headed the Department of Philosophy and Sociology. In 2010 he defended his PhD in philosophy. Today he is a professor at the same department.

Author of 160 scientific works and educational and methodological developments: including 153 scientific, 1 monograph, 6 educational and methodical works.

Direction of scientific research: history of philosophy, theory of cognition, social philosophy, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of culture.

Received a PhD academic degree  in psychology in 2010, defended the thesis “The psychological peculiarities of coping by students with difficult life situations ” at the M.Dragomanov National Pedagogical University, Specialty 19.00.07 – Pedagogical and Age Psychology.

Author of 73  among which: educational and methodological – 17 (including 7 – recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and of the Academic Council of the University). 19 – published in Psychological Journals and presented in international scientometric databases

Research interests: age and pedagogical psychology, psychology of coping with difficult life situations, preventology.