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{{Infobox journal
| title = Voprosy filosofii (Problems of Philosophy)
| cover = ВопросыФилософии 1992-7.jpg
| image_size = 200px
| abbreviation = Vopr. Filos.
| language = [[Russian language|Russian]]
| editor =  Boris Pruzhinin
| publisher = [[Russian Academy of Sciences]]
| country = [[Soviet Union]]/[[Russia]]
| history = 1947–present
| frequency =
| ISSN = 0042-8744
| OCLC = 429157875
| LCCN = 51016068
| website = http://www.vphil.ru
}}
'''''Voprosy Filosofii''''' ({{langx|ru|Вопросы философии}}, ''Problems of Philosophy'') is a Soviet and Russian [[scientific]] and [[theoretical]] [[philosophical]] [[peer-reviewed]] [[academic journal]]. It was established in July 1947 under the guidance of the {{Interlanguage link multi|Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences|ru|3=Руководство РАН}}. [[Bonifaty Kedrov]] was one of its initiators and held the position of editor in chief from 1947 to 1949. <ref name = "Kozhevnikov">{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=l1Ha_opwB68C|title = Stalin's Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists|last = Kozhevnikov|first = A. B.|date = 2004-01-01|publisher = Imperial College Press|isbn = 9781860944192|language = en}}</ref>
== History ==
The publication is considered the successor of the magazine ''[[Under the Banner of Marxism]]'' which was published in Moscow from 1922 to 1944.
The magazine was created on the initiative of the prominent Soviet statesman and ideologue [[Andrei Zhdanov]] in 1947. Periodicity of the magazine was initially three times a year, from 1951 it was 6 times a year, and from 1958 it was published monthly.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Журнал "Вопросы философии" - «Вопросы философии» за 60 лет|url=http://vphil.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5|access-date=2021-10-18|website=vphil.ru}}</ref>
Circulation in 1971 was about forty thousand copies; and recently In 2007 it was about three thousand copies. In Soviet times, the magazine had the largest circulation among philosophical magazines in the world. Since 1989, Pravda Publishing House has been publishing a book series, On the History of Domestic Philosophical Thought, as a supplement to the magazine.
==Discussion of cybernetics==
{{further|Cybernetics in the Soviet Union}}
"Whom Does Cybernetics Serve?" was an anonymous article from "Materialist" which appeared in No. 5, 1953, (pp.&nbsp;210–219). They attacked [[cybernetics]] as a "misanthropic pseudotheory", "a sterile flower on the tree of knowledge generated as a result of the one-sided and unbounded exaggeration of one of the demons of knowledge."<ref name="L&M">{{cite book|last1=Levien|first1=Roger|last2=Maron|first2=M. E.|title=Cybernetics and its development in the Soviet Union|date=1964|publisher=RAND Corporation|location=Santa Monica|url=http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/602705.pdf|accessdate=21 August 2017}}{{dead link|date=June 2022|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
Two years later the magazine published "[[The Main Features of Cybernetics]]" by [[Sergei Sobolev]], [[Alexey Lyapunov]] and [[Anatoly Kitov]] which defended cybernetics against the unwarranted criticism by philosophers of what they regarded as a bono-fide science.<ref name="N to C">{{cite book |last1=Gerovitch |first1=Slava |title=From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics |date=2002 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=0262072327 |location=Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]}}</ref>
== Chief editors ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Chief Editor
!Years
|-
|[[Bonifaty Kedrov]]
|1947–1949
|-
|[[Dmitry Chesnokov (politician)|Dmitry Chesnokov]]
|1949–1952
|-
|[[Fyodor Konstantinov|F. V. Konstantinov]]
|1952–1954
|-
|Mikhail Kammari
|1954—1959
|-
|A. F. Okulov
|1959–1960
|-
|[[Mark Mitin]]
|1960–1967
|-
|Ivan Frolov
|1968–1977
|-
|Vadim S. Semenov
|1977–1987
|-
|V. A. Lektorsky
|1988–2009
|-
|Boris Pruzhinin
|since 2009
|}
== Literature ==
* ''Avner Zis'' У истоков журнала «Вопросы философии» // Вопросы философии. — 1997. — №&nbsp;7. — С.&nbsp;44—53.
* ''Zahar Kamensky'' Утраченные иллюзии (Воспоминания о начале издания «Вопросов философии») // Вопросы философии. — 1997. — №&nbsp;7. — С. 21—28.
* ''Lektorsky V.'' [http://vphil.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5 «Вопросы философии» за 60 лет] // Вопросы философии. — 2007. — № 7.
* ''Potkov L.'' Некоторые эпизоды из жизни журнала в 1947—1949 годах // Вопросы философии. — 1997. — №&nbsp;7. — С.&nbsp;29—33.
* ''Vadim Sadowski'' [https://sites.google.com/site/bolshevistphilosophy/Home/tom-3/soderzanie/sadovskij «Вопросы философии» в шестидесятые годы] // Вопросы философии. — 1997. — №&nbsp;8. — С.&nbsp;33—46.
==References==
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== External links ==
* {{Official|http://www.vphil.ru}}
* {{URL|http://www.philosophy.ru/library/vopros/00.html}}
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