Helena Knyazeva
- Professor, Senior Research Fellow: Faculty of Humanities / School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies
- Helena Knyazeva has been at HSE University since 2013.
Education, Degrees and Academic Titles
Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Thesis Title: Evolution of Scientific Knowledge: the Processes of Self-Organisation
Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR
Lenin Moscow State Teacher Training Institute
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
A post-doctoral degree called Doctor of Sciences is given to reflect second advanced research qualifications or higher doctorates in ISCED 2011.
Courses (2024/2025)
- Philosophy (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Philosophy and the Scientific Method (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Contemporary Discussions in Philosophy of Science" (Optional course (faculty); Faculty of Humanities; 1-4 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2023/2024)
- Classical Philosophy and Modern Science (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Science (Optional course (faculty); 1, 2 module)Rus
- Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Science (Optional course (faculty); 1-4 module)Rus
- Philosophical problems of modern science (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- Philosophy (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 3 year, 4 module)Rus
- Philosophy (Bachelor’s programme; Graduate School of Business; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2022/2023)
- Actual problems of bioeconomics and biotechnology (Master’s programme; Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology; 1 year, 1 module)Rus
- Classical Philosophy and Modern Science (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Science (Optional course (faculty); 1-4 module)Rus
- Philosophical problems of modern science (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- Philosophy of Science (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Computer Science field of study Software Engineering, field of study Applied Mathematics and Information Science; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Philosophy of Science (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- System Approach in Management and Futures Studies (Optional course (university); 1, 2 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- Actual problems of bioeconomics and biotechnology (Master’s programme; Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology; 1 year, 1 module)Rus
- Philosophy (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Philosophy (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Philosophy (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Philosophy (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Law field of study Law, field of study Law; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Philosophy of Science and Technology (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- Philosophy (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Law; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Philosophy of Science and Technology (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Research projects
- 2022-2024 - the project of the Russian Science Foundation No. 22-18-00450 «The Many-worlds Conceptions as a Tool of Scientific Research and Interdisciplinary Synthesis of Knowledge», research project leader.
- 2015-2017 - research project of the Russian Foundation of Humanities 15-03-00860 "Methodology of Management of Network Structures in the Context of the Paradigm of Complexity", Head of Research.
- 2013-2015 - research project of the Russian Foundation of Basic Research 13-06-00813а "Evolutionary Thinking as a Foundation of Interdisciplinary Synthesis of Knowledge", Head of Research.
- 2011-2013 - international Russian-Byelorussian research project of the Russian Foundation of Humanities and Byelorussian Foundation of Basic Research 11-23-01005/Bel "Innovative Complexity: Methodological, Cognitive and Social Aspects", Head of Resarch from the Russian Side - Helena Knyazeva.
Editorial board membership
Editor of special issues of scientific journals
Special issue of Foresight and STI Governance, 2020, Vol. 14, N 4, with the topiс “The Strategic Management in the Context of Dynamic Complexity”.
Conferences
- 2022
VIII Российский философский Конгресс (Москва). Presentation: Ментальные образы и их роль в креативном мышлении
III Конгресс Русского общества истории и философии науки "После постпозитивизма" (Саратов). Presentation: Множественность когнитивных миров живых существ: изучая наследие Я. фон Икскюля
Экономика сложности и скрытые источники роста (Москва). Presentation: Нелинейная динамика экономических процессов: подсказки из науки о сложности
- 2021
Foresight Tools: Evolution and New Approaches (Москва). Presentation: Empowering Foresight Methodology by Advances in Complexity Science
WOSC Congress 2021 (Москва (online)). Presentation: The Systemic Approach to Psychosomatic Health in the Era of COVID-19 Pandemic
WOSC Congress 2021 (Москва (online)). Presentation: The Methodology of Construction of Active Self-Developing Media from the Standpoint of Enactivism
XII международная конференция Школы философии и культурологии НИУ ВШЭ «Философия и культура в период пандемии» (Москва). Presentation: Психосоматическое здоровье человека в эпоху пандемии COVID-19
37th Summer Academy "Homeland Earth - Peace Politics in the Age of the Anthropocene" (Schlaining). Presentation: Complex thinking: re-conceiving Edgar Morin’s paradigm
VI Congreso Internacional y XI Nacional Digital de Pedagogía Universitaria y Didáctica del Derecho (Santiago). Presentation: Systemic Approach to Education: Trends in Educational Policy of the XXI Century
- 2019
4th World Conference on Complex Systems (Ouarzazate). Presentation: The Systemic Methodology of Organization of Active Innovative Media
Пятая Балканская научная конференция «Наука – образование – искусство в XXI веке» (Благоевград ). Presentation: What to Teach: Trends in Educational Policy of the XXI Century
Пятая Балканская научная конференция «Наука – образование – искусство в XXI веке» (Благоевград ). Presentation: What to Teach: Trends in Educational Policy of the XXI Century
- 2018
XXIV World Congress of Philosophy "Learning to be Human" (Пекин). Presentation: The Biological Roots of Meaning-Making in the Universe
3rd International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk, COMPLEXIS 2018 (Funchal, Madeira). Presentation: Management of Co-evolutionary Complexity: Some Methodological Considerations
A Systemic Vision of the Crises: From Optimization to Change Strategy. 10th Congress of the European Union for Systemics (UES2018). (Брюссель ). Presentation: The Notion of Ecology of Action in the Context of Social Constructivism
- 2016
Congreso Internacional "Todos los Saberes" (Mexico-City). Presentation: The Complex Thought and Its Borders
Congrès mondial pour la pensée complexe. Les défis d'un monde globalisé (Париж). Presentation: La pensée complexe comme l’art de penser et de construire le monde
Speeches and interviews in the media
Interview with the journal "Foresight and STI Governance" (HSE) "Taking Advantages of Uncertainty and Randomness"
Employment history
From 1985 to 2013 - research work at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) with the staff position from Junior Research Associate to Head of Department of Evolutionary Epistemology.
From 2008 to 2013 - Head of Department of Evolutionary Epistemology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
In 1993 - tutor at the DePauw University (IN, USA).
Invited scholar
- Scholarship Holder of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany (1996-1998, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2012, 2015), researches at the Hermann Haken Center of Synergetics by the University of Stuttgart and at the Karl von Linde Academy by the University of Munich in the collaboration with Klaus Mainzer;
- Invited Scholar at the Center of Transdisciplinary Research (Sociology, Anthropology, History) /CETSAH/ led by Edgar Morin with the support of La Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in France (2000, 2002, 2005);
- Participant of the programs of academic exchange with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2009), Academy of Sciences of Czech Republiс (2010), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (2012);
- Grant Holder of Soros Foundation (1994-1995), INTAS (1995-1997).
Texts of Key Publications
More than 450 published works, including 10 monographs.
Some of my publications can be downloaded from the sites:
https://hse-ru.academia.edu/knyazeva
http://philpapers.org/profile/43355
Membership in the international organizations
- Russian Philosophical Society (since 1983);
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Komplexe Systeme und Nichtlineare Dynamik (since 1997);
- Association pour la Pensée Complexe, France (since 1997);
- Advisory Board of the Institute for a Global Sustainable Information Society;
- Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (BCSSS, Аustria);
- Research Committee on Sociocybernetics (RC 51) in the frames of the International Sociological Association (since 1997);
- Scientific Council “Multiversidad Mundo Real Edgar Morin”, Mexico;
- Lifeboard Foundation. Selfguarding Humatity;
- Darwin Project Council (USA);
- Book series “Exploring Unity through Diversity” (published by the BCSSS), BCSSS
Links to texts of some publications
More than 500 published works, including 10 monographs. Some key works may be downloaded from sites:
Knyazeva H. List of publications in international journals, proceedings and books (PDF, 832 Кб)
Published translations
More than 30 translations of the works of prominent Western scholars in the fields of the theory of complexity (synergetics), philosophy of mind, evolotionary epistemology and bioethics have been published.
Helena Knyazeva Made a Plenary Lecture at the Fifth Balkan Scientific Conference
Helena Knyazeva made a plenary lecture at the Fifth Balkan Scientific Conference “Science - Education - Art in the 21st Century”, which was organized by the Southwest University “Neofit-Rilski” in Blagoevrad (Bulgaria) in September 26-27, 2019.
Helena Knyazeva made a presentation at the World Conference of Complex Systems in Morocco
Helena Knyazeva presented a paper “The Systemic Methodology of Organization of Active Innovative Media” at the World Conference on Complex Systems, which took place on April 22-25, 2019
Helena Knyazeva made the presentation of her research results at the 24th World Philosophical Congress in Beijing
Professor Helena Knyazeva participated in the section “Philosophy of Life Sciences”, where she made the presentation on the topic “The Biological Roots of Meaning-Making in the Universe".
Professor Helena Knyazeva gave a talk at the World Congress on Complex Thought
Professor Helena Knyazeva gave a talk as an invited speaker at the "World Congress on Complex Thought. The Challenge of a Globalized World" (8 & 9 DEC. 2016 UNESCO — PARIS)
Professor Elena Knyazeva was elected as an Academician of the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences (IASCYS)
In recognition of her outstanding achievements in the development of systems and cybernetic sciences and their practical applications Elena Knyazeva, a professor of the School of Philosophy (HSE), was elected as an Academician of the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences (IASCYS).