CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal details
Name: Vladimir Todorov Stoychev
Birth date: 27.10.1951
Nationality:
Contact address: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Institute for the Study of Societies and
Knowledge
13-a, Moskovska str.
1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
Telephone number: (+3592) 980 90 86
fax 980 58 95
E-mail:
Education
Area of scientific research: Anthropological Researches, Philosophy of
the Body, Philosophy of Technology,
Cultural Studies, Social Philosophy
Degrees
and academic ranks:
· Ranks Associate Professor
· Degrees Ph. D.
D.Sc.
Ph.D. degree 1987, Bulgaria-Sofia, Institute of Philosophy (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Review of the French Philosophy of Technology, Critical analysis of the conceptions of technology of Gilbert Simondon and Jacques Ellul – in what a sense and to what an extent technology is autonomous? 01.04.1987
Specializations 1988, (former) Czechoslovakia, Institute of Philosophy
MA degree 1976, Bulgaria-Sofia, Sofia University of Technology, Analysis of the methods of dispatcherization by means of the theory of mass-servicing, 23.07.1976
Awards,
scholarly or other distinctions:
Honorary titles: Associate Professor
Practical experience
Scientific positions:
· Associate Professor, 2000-, Institute for Philosophical Researches, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
· Assistant Professor, 1987-2000, Institute for Philosophical Researches, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
· Assist. Research Associate, 1982-1987, Institute for Philosophical Researches, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Teaching experience: Philosophy of Technology, The Object’s World: The Socio-ideological System of Objects and Consumption, Cultural History of Europe, The Game: Theoretical and Cultural Aspects, The Discourse on the Body, The Publicity between Sociology and Psychoanalysis (Sofia University of Technology – Economic Department, Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski” – Department of Philosophy, New Bulgarian University – Department of Anthropology, 1996-2008)
Training of specialists: Supervisor of two PhD students – Bоris Grozdanoff and Georgi Nikolov (Institute for Philosophical Researches, 2002-2006 and 2006-2009, Section “Philosophy of Science”)
Expert and consulting activity:
Editorship: Editor of Dictionary of Philosophy, Publishing House “Trud”, Sofia, 2009 (translation of The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Ed. 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995)
Membership in different institutions:
Academic activities
Participation in schools
and conferences: Participation in more than 50 schools and
conferences in Bulgaria and (former)
Yougoslavia during the period 1982-2011
Publications list:
A/ Books
Six Essays on Philosophy of Technology. Sofia, 1998. (in Bulgarian)
Philosophy of the Body. Paradigma, Sofia, 2011. (in Bulgarian)
B/ Selected papers
In English, French, Swedish:
The Security of Human Existence Facing the New Anthropotechniques – in: The Philosophy of Security in an Insecure World (Proceedings of XXV Varna International Philosophical School, 01-03 June 2008), Sofia, IPhR-BAS, 2010. (in English)
Ontology of Power, Politics and Law – in: Being and Knowledge in Postmetaphysical Context, Wien, Institut für Axiologische Forschungen (IAF), 2008. (in English)
What does science cognize or prolegomena to philosophy of science – in: Philosophy Bridging Civilization and Cultures: Universal, Regional, National Values in United Europe (Proceedings of XXIV Varna International Philosophical School, 01-03 June 2006), Sofia, Institute for Philosophical Researche, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2007. (in English)
Rethoric of incorporeity – in: Challenges facing philosophy in United Europe (Proceedings of XXIII Varna International Philosophical School, 03 – 06 June 2004). Sofia, Institute for Philosophical Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2004. (in English)
Truth and Scientific Knowledge – in: Philosophy between Old and New Values (Proceedings of XXII Varna International Philosophical School, 29 May – 01 June 2002). Sofia, Institute for Philosophical Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2003. (in English)
Le Monde Technique comme Ex-stasis de l’Homme – in: Philosophy between Two Centuries (Proceedings of XXI Varna International Philosophical School, 30 May – 03 June 2000). Sofia, Institute for Philosophical Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2001. (in French)
Еthnogenèse et Suicide – in: Science, Civilisation, Values (Proceedings of XIX Varna International Philosophical School, 28 May – 02 June 1994). Sofia, Institute for Philosophical Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1995. (in French)
Mozart och Salieri – Dialoger, 5/87, Stockholm. (in Swedish)
In Bulgarian:
Cogito ergo corpus habeo: The Cerebral Subject – in: Philosophical Alternatives, 1/2011.
The Biological and the Social in the Shadow of the Politically Correct Knowledge – in: Culture in the Education and Education in the Culture, Sofia, Publishing House: BUS, 2010.
The Body and the Signifying Intention of Ethical Subject – in: Nota Bene (topic of the issue: “The Labyrinth of the Human Body”), № 13/2010.
The Knowledge as essence of Human Evolution (The Loneliness of Long Distance Runner – Another Perusal of Zeno’s paradoxes “Arrow paradox” and “Achilles and the Tortoise”) – in: Evolution and Knowledge. Sofia., Publishing House “St. Ivan Rilski”, 2009.
Embodiment: Between the Structure and the Phenomenon (Spacial and Temporal Bodies in M. Foucault and M. Merleau-Ponty) – in: Philosophical Alternatives, 4/2009.
The Thought of the Body in the (Denotative) Language of Metaphysics – in: Kanavrov, V., Donev, G. (Ed.), Transcendental Languages of Metaphysics, Blagoevgrad, Publishing House of SWU “Neophite Rilski”, 2009.
The Contemporary Body-Art and the Imaging of the Inner Body – in: Philosophy and Eurointegration. Knowledge Based Society, Sofia, Publishing House: BSU, 2008.
What Is Thinking and What, and How Science Thinks? – in: Style of Thinking, Sofia, Publishing House “St. Ivan Rilski”, 2008.
Applicability of Knowledge – in: Applicability of Scientific Knowledge, Sofia, Publishing House “St. Ivan Rilski”, 2008.
Philosophy of Technology: From Essentialism to Constructivism – in: The Philosophy in XXI century, Sofia, Academic Publishing House “M. Drinov”, 2007.
Contemporary Philosophy of Body: Between Cognitive Sciences (annihilation of the corporal) and Neurosciences (reification of the mental) – in: Epistemic Standarts in Science, Sofia, Publishing House “St. Ivan Rilski”, 2007.
“Culture” and “Civilization” – in: Culture, Policy, Identities, Sofia, Publishing House “St. Ivan Rilski”, 2006.
The Principium of Technology – in: Philosophical Alternatives, 4/2006.
On the Ontological Statute of Science – in: Philosophical Alternatives, 3/2006.
How “Philosophy of Science” Understands the Science – in: Science and Knowledge, Sofia, Publishing House “St. Ivan Rilski”, 2006.
The Virtual Reality: The Contemporary Vicissitudes of Metaphysics – in: Philosophical Alternatives, 5/2005.
The Double or the Other in the Eternity of the Same: The Victory of the Cartesian Metaphysics? – in: The Divided Man (stadies and essays), Sofia, Faber, 2005.
Techne and perception – in: Paths of Philosophy in the Contemporary World. Sofia, 2003.
Wesen vs Lebe-Wesen or Ontology vs Anthropology – in: Philosophical Alternatives, 3-4/2003, Sofia.
Cultural Technology – in: Philosophical Alternatives, 3-4/2001, Sofia.
The New Time and the Debate on Technology – in: Philosophical Alternatives, 5-6/2000, Sofia.
The Truth of the Object: into Captivity of the Accidences – in: Philosophical Alternatives, 5-6/1999, Sofia.
The Object: Mirror or Means – in: Democratic Review, 41-42/1999, Sofia.
T: Genealogy of the Sense – in: Philosophical Alternatives, 2/97, Sofia.
The Object’s World of Technology and the Projective Power of Necessities – in: Philosophical Alternatives, 6/96, Sofia.
Psychoanalysis of the Social Transition – in: Psychoanalysis and Philosophy, IFR-BAS, 1996, Sofia
Genesis and Evolution of the Technical Object: The Process of Concretization – in: Philosophical Investigations, v.3, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy, 1993, Sofia.
Philosophical Analysis of the Cybernetical Approach in the Art – in: Philisophical Thought, 3/85, Sofia.
Reviews writing:
Participation in national/international
scientific research projects: Participation in ten national scientific
research projects
Courses attended to improve
your qualifications:
Languages
(Russian – fluent, French – fluent, English - intermediate)
Secondary School (1970), French High School, Sofia
Computer skills
Good computer skills
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