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]

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References

  1. ↑ Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich; Khrushchev, Serge_ (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.
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