Bonifaty Kedrov

Bonifaty Mikhailovich Kedrov (Russian: Бонифа́тий Миха́йлович Ке́дров; 10 December [O.S. 27 November] 1903, Yaroslavl – 10 September 1985, Moscow) was a Soviet researcher, philosopher, logician, chemist and psychologist who was a specialist in the philosophy of dialectical materialism and the philosophy of science.

Son of the Bolshevik leader Mikhail Kedrov, he himself joined the Bolsheviks in 1918.

Kedrov had a Doctor of Philosophy degree and specialized in philosophical questions of the natural sciences. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union since 1966,^[1] author of over one thousand publications.

Since 1963, Kedrov was a member of the International Academy of the History of Science and a number of other institutions. Kedrov was one of the initiators and the first editor-in-chief of Problems of Philosophy (Voprosy Filosofii), a leading Soviet journal of philosophy, from 1947 to 1949.^[2]

Publications

• The Science (1968) in association with Alexander Spirkin

References

1. Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich (1 January 2006). Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev. Penn State Press. ISBN 0271028610.
2. Kozhevnikov, A. B. (1 January 2004). Stalin's Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists. Imperial College Press. ISBN 9781860944192.