Boris Maizel
Lecturer Doc Sch
Weissman School of Arts and Sciences
- Biography
- Teaching
- Research and Creative Activity
- Grants
- Honors and Awards
- Service
Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, Moscow State University
M.A., Philosophy, Moscow State University
Books
Maizel, B. (1978). Dialectical Materialism. (p. 100 (in Russian)). Gorky, USSR, Gorky Teacher’s College Press.
Journal Articles
(2005). "Why Talk if We Disagree?. Critical Review Foundation, 17(1-2). 12 pp.
(2002). Philosophical Poems by Evgeniy Baratynskiy. Translated from Russian. The Philosophical Forum, 33(3). pp. 330-333.
(1999). "The Postmodern Identity of Russia—and the West". Critical Review, 13(1-2). pp. 129-140.
(1977). "Popper’s Approach to Inductivism". Bulletin of the Moscow Institute for Information in the Social Sciences, 11. pp. 715-745 (in Russian).
(1975). "The Problem of Cognition in the Philosophical Works of Karl Popper in the 1960’s" Questions of Philosophy. Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 6. pp. 140-147 (in Russian).
Other Scholarly Works
Maizel, B. (1992). "The Philosophy of Karl Popper and Its Influence on Contemporary Thought" Kayhan-i-Farhang. 8(9), pp. 2-4 (in Persian).
Maizel, B. (1989). "National Realism and National Mythology" The New Russian Word. 5, in Russian.
Research Currently in Progess
Maizel, B.(n.d.). Beyond Occidentalism and Orientalism: The Path of Philosophy. In Progress.
39 pp.
Maizel, B.(n.d.). Communication and Civilization. In Progress.
30 pp.
Maizel, B.(n.d.). Contemporary American Philosophy in History of Philosophy: The West-Russia-the East. In Progress.
Three papers on the role of dialogue in history and in our life today.
Maizel, B.(n.d.). Russian Civilization: A Lesson for Contemporary America. In Progress.
A Philosophical Analysis of Intellectual Traditions and Their Deficiency in the Context of Cultural Evolution (completed book mss. 241 pp.)
Maizel, B.(n.d.). The Birth of Democracy from the Practice of Philosophy or Why Philosophy is Incompatible with Romanticism. In Progress.
18 pp.
Maizel, B.(n.d.). When Civilizations Do Not Clash. In Progress.
13 pp.
College
| Committee Name | Position Role | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy Department Executive Committee | 12/31/2007 |
Public
| Organization | Position Role | Organization State | Organization Country | Start Date | End Date | Audience |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joint Conference of the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science, the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies | Chairperson | 10/31/1991 | ||||
| Joint Conference of the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science, the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies | Chairperson | 10/31/1988 |