The presentation deals with epistemic aspects of unfreedom under totalitarian regimes and its justification, namely with philosophy as a legitimized epistemic power within totalitarian regimes.
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Yasna, I. (2023). Theoretical foundations for “epistemology of war”. Roundtable “Conflict in (post)modern world: classical theories and contemporary practices” (V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, May 5, 2023).
In this paper, I analyze the means of moral justification of military conflicts, which I interpret in terms of social epistemology as a clash of incompatible systems of knowledge, or epistemologies, and hence as epistemic conflicts. Using the example of the Russian war in Ukraine, I demonstrate how the ideas and concepts of contemporary social epistemology can be applied to the understanding of armed conflicts. In particular, I reveal the essence of these conflicts in terms of epistemic violence, epistemic paternalism and consequentialism, epistemic colonization, and the confrontation between epistemologies of domination and resistance.
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Yasna, I. (2023). The Gaze of the Great Other: Philosophy in Totalitarian Regimes. Meeting the Other as a Challenge. XV International Academic Conference “Philosophy: The New Generation” (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, April 21-22).
The presentation focuses on how knowledge and collective beliefs are produced in totalitarian regimes. Namely, how the figure of the Great Other is used for non-violent legitimization of such regimes.
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Yasna, I. (2023). Philosophy and (un)freedom. Philosophy within Non-Democratic Regimes (Project Presentation). Round table "The Russian-Ukrainian War in the aspect of the unconquerable past: Paradigms of Different Worldviews" (Odesa, Odesa I.I.Mechnikov National University, April 20-21, 2023).
Presentation of the supplementary volume of “Archives of History of Philosophy and Social Thought”, one of the oldest and most distinguished philosophical periodicals in Poland continuously published since 1957 under the auspices of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. This volume aims to provide a forum for the international discussion on the intellectual position and social role of philosophy in authoritarian, totalitarian and other non-democratic societies.
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Yasna, I. (2019). Otherness as an interdisciplinary issue: current research trends. Keynote report at the "Philosophical Thought" Round Table "The other experience: to comprehend incomprehensible". Philosophical Thought, No. 3, 12-17.
https://doi.org/10.15407/fd2019.03.006Proceedings of the founding meeting of the project "The Other Experience", which was realized under my co-leadership during 2019-20 academic year. The project was initiated by the NGO "Youth Center for Humanities", which I chair. Co-organizers: Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukrainian Philosophical Foundation, “Philosophical Thought” journal, Ukrainian Congress of the Disabled, All-Ukrainian School of Personal Education "Slavia". According to the results of the round table, a thematic issue of the journal "Philosophical Thought" was published with my scientific editing.
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Yasna I. (2017). Public turn and the emergence of the public humanities (Ukrainian case). National philosophy in the global world; theses of the First Belorussian National Philosophical Congress (Minsk, October 18-20, 2017). Minsk: Belorussian science.
The article discusses two opposing trends in Ukraine's philosophical field in the 21st century. The first trend involves the decreasing demand for university-level philosophy as a discipline, evidenced by its exclusion from the mandatory curriculum in 2015. The second trend involves an increasing social demand for philosophical knowledge outside the academic environment, leading to the development of non-academic forms of philosophy with specific means of information transmission, functions, methods, institutions, and language. These trends are not unique to Ukraine and are part of a broader methodological shift, which can be called the "public turn." This shift includes the institutionalization of "public" fields in the social and humanities, such as "public sociology" and "public history." The article also discusses the institutionalization of public philosophy, which is still in its early stages, and its theoretical exploration, which lags behind the practice.
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Yasna, I. (2017). Translation Index "Translatio Humanitatis": Functionalities and Cultural Significance. International Scientific Conference "Library. Science. Communication. Strategic objectives for the development of scientific libraries" (Kyiv, October 3-5, 2017).
The concept, history of creation, structure and functional capabilities of the register of translations of social and humanitarian literature "Translatio Humanitatis" are presented, as well as its role in the development of domestic translation business is outlined.
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Yasna, I. (2017). Translatio Humanitarica: National Index of academic translations. SCDA17, 5th International Conference on Scientific communication in the Digital Age (Kyiv, March 29-30, 2017).
http://ekmair.ukma.edu.ua/handle/123456789/11183Report on the first year of work on the web portal "Translatio Humanitarica", which aims to: a) systematize the corpus of Ukrainian-language translations of humanitarian texts and b) promote the establishment of industry terminology.
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Yasna, I. (2016). The sexualization of blood in contemporary art. The First All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference of Graduate and Postgraduate Students "Philosophical, Anthropological, Psychoanalytic and Existential Dimensions of Human Being" on the topic: "Love, Death, Sexuality in Modern Philosophy and Psychology" (Kyiv, December 1-2, 2016).
The report considers the concept "blood" as a category of culture, and its representation in art. The main cultural narratives of blood are singled out. 1) Blood as a symbol of vitality, life, and death, which in the vast majority of cultures is associated with the idea of blood as a receptacle for the soul and, accordingly, a “channel of communication” with the divine and demonic. 2) Blood as a symbol of power, which today includes, among other things, the interpretation of blood as a symbol of the fertility of a woman, which is transformed in the context of feminist theories into a metaphor for female subjectivity. On the examples of modern painting, cinema, literature, computer games, music, and advertising, the author shows that today both metanarratives are refracted through the category of sexuality, as a result of which blood, at least in art, acquires sexual connotations.
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Yasna, I. (2016). Translatio Humanitarica: searching for the "canon" of humanities' terminology. Scientific terminology at the beginning of the new century: theoretical and applied dimensions. International Scientific Conference (Rivne, September 15-16, 2016).
The report shows the importance of proper information infrastructure for the effective development of translation and the formation of professional thesauri in various fields of science. The presented project "Translatio Humanitarica" - the national portal of academic humanities' translations and terminology is the first Ukrainian attempt to provide such an infrastructure.
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Yasna, I. (2016). Semantics of the Event. Keynote report at the Roundtable of the Philosophical Thought journal "Discourse of the Revolution of Dignity: соntents, structure, research methodology". Philosophical thought, No. 4, 6-56.
https://dumka.philosophy.ua/index.php/fd/article/view/32The keynote report about the interdisciplinary research project "Discourse of the Revolution of Dignity" carried out during the 2019-20 academic year at my initiative and with my leadership. According to the results of the round table, the thematic issue of the journal "Philosophical Thought" was published with my scientific editing.
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Yasna, I. (2016). Promoting the systematic translation and terminological work in the humanities (on the example of philosophy). Serhiy Burago XXV International Scientific Conference "Language and Culture" (June 20-23, 2016, Kyiv).
The report presents the portal "Translatio Philosophica", which aims to provide a national infrastructure for academic humanities' translation. The portal ensures systematic action of academics in two areas: translation (increasing the volume of translated literature, systematization and dissemination of information on available translations) and terminology (discussions in order to establish a professional thesaurus and the formation of a single canon of interpretation of key terms).
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Yasna, I. (2016). "Semantics of the event" and interpretation of social conflicts. Interpretation as an instrument of cultural studies: All-Ukrainian scientific-theoretical conference (Kyiv, Institute of Cultural Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, June 2-3, 2016).
The author deals with the transformations of the semantic space in the situation of Event, which is being interpreted as a linguistic or semantic phenomenon. The Event becomes a point where different interpretations of reality meet. Such a situation provokes the activation of different semantic processes. Words obtain new or additional meanings, connotations of words change, some words become taboo, other ones come back to life from oblivion and so on. To analyse the semantic dimension of social conflicts author offers to implement the term "semantics of event" and “semantics of social conflicts” as it’s a special case to mark a field of research with a specific methodology that will distinguish it from linguistic and semantic studies of periods of stability. The author provides examples of such research and makes a conclusion about the importance of initiation of academic and public dialogue in this sphere in the current Ukrainian conditions.
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Yasna, I. (2016). The phenomenon of mass philosophy in the space of mass culture. XI International scientific conference "Philosophy: the new generation" on the topic: "Philosophy: Between Science and Humanities" (Kyiv, March 24-25, 2016).
The report analyses the demand for a specific simplified form of philosophical knowledge and dialogue in modern society. This form of philosophizing is defined as "mass philosophy". The author systematizes the causes, forms, and possible consequences of the counter-processes of "massification of philosophy" and "philosophization of mass culture" and outlines the role to be played by representatives of academic philosophy, taking into account these trends.
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Yasna, I. (2016). Philosophy at school: world models and Ukrainian experience. Days of Science of the Faculty of Philosophy 2016. International Scientific Conference (Kyiv, April 20-21, 2016). In 10 volumes. Vol. 10. (pp. 156-158).
The report considers two options for integrating philosophy into the school education system: 1) as specialized philosophy courses for children in primary and secondary school, 2) as a normative block of philosophical disciplines in the lyceum education system for high school students.
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Yasna, I. (2016). The opposition "light-heavy" as a metaphor for modern and traditional societies. Ukraine and the world: dialogue of languages and cultures: International scientific and practical conference (Kyiv National Linguistic University, March 30 -1 April 2016).
The author analyzes the binary opposition "light-heavy", which in certain contexts is found in philosophical works, literature and everyday phraseology. The opposition is presented as a relevant metaphor to compare traditional and modern types of societies and to analyze modern world processes and conflicts.
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Yasna, I. (2016). The turn to Scopus: the path to international academic communication or the destruction of the Ukrainian-language humanities? SCDA16, 4th International Conference on Scientific communication in the Digital Age (Kyiv, March 30-31, 2016).
http://www.ekmair.ukma.edu.ua/handle/123456789/8765In this report, the author analyses the possible negative consequences of the forced introduction of scientometric methods to assess the activities of specialists and research institutions in Ukraine. The author considers the specific features of humanities research, which determine the irrelevance of traditional scientometric methods for their evaluation. The author suggests that one of the possible ways to overcome this contradiction may be the creation of domestic mechanisms of scientometric analysis; an example for humanities (mostly for philosophy) is the Ukrainian Index of Philosophy portal, being developed under the author's guidance.
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Yasna, I. (2015). Philosophy and entrepreneurship as components of "subject education". Philosophy: the new generation - 2015. Proceedings of the X Student Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference (Kyiv, NaUKMA, May 21-22, 2015).
The author implements the concept of "subject education" as one that contributes to forming two features of the personality: subjectivity as freedom of thought and subjectity as freedom of action. The author notes that this approach contributes to the formation of European consciousness, a specific feature of which is the interpretation of man as a "subject".
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Yasna, I. (2015). Tolerance in mono-subjective and poly-subjective societies. Worldview and value self-determination of man: Proceedings of the IV International Scientific and Practical Conference of Young Scientists (Chernivtsi, May 8-9, 2015), 100-105.
The category "subjectivity" is considered as a characteristic of self-awareness of a particular society of its ontological place in the world through the attitude to a particular subject, which he may consider himself (as in the Cartesian paradigm of subjectivity), God (as in European the Middle Ages), etc. Accordingly, there are four paradigms of subjectivity: We-subjectivity, He-subjectivity, I-subjectivity, They-subjectivity. The last two paradigms can be defined as poly-subjective, as opposed to mono-subjective, where there is an idea of a single external entity. Only within them, ideas of tolerance are possible.
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Yasna, I. (2015). Universal competencies as the basis of functional education. International Scientific Conference "Days of Science of the Faculty of Philosophy - 2015" (Kyiv, April 21-22, 2015). Vol. 6, 143.
The author considers "universal skills" as a necessary element of modern education and proposes the concept of "functional education", which should provide practical skills and abilities that are not rigidly related to a particular profession but allow you to become a "universal specialist".
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Yasna, I. (2014). Approbation in popular media as a requirement for an academic career. Philosophy as a cultural politics of the present: Proceedings of the II All-Ukrainian Scientific Conference (Ostroh, July 17–18, 2014), 51.
In the post-Soviet space, the isolation of the academic community within itself has become a typical situation, inevitably leading scientists to fixate on one point of view and “scientific blindness”. The solution lies in the approval of the approbation of scientific research in popular periodicals and at public non-specialized events as a requirement for maintaining scientific status.
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Kyselova, Y. (2013). Internet: virtual paradise or the reality of a God-man? First prize in the competition of philosophical essays within the National student’s academic competition in philosophy and religion studies (Donetsk, 2011). International scientific conference “Days of Science of Philosophical faculty 2013” (April 16-17, 2013): conference proceedings. Kyiv: Publishing house “Kyiv University”. Part 5, 141-143.
One of my early conference reports, rewritten from the competition essay which won first place at the National student’s academic competition on philosophy and religion studies.
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Kyselova, Y. (2012). “Society 2.0” as a contemporary sociocultural paradigm. Proceedings of the Interuniversity scientific and practical conference “The man in the philosophical dimension of modernity” (Kharkiv, National pharmaceutical university).
The report proposes a periodisation model of historical ages according to the channel and vector of information dissemination. The author separates the second wave of Internet development (associated with the spread of "Web 2.0" technology) into an independent era, which we may define as "Society 2.0", and argues that philosophers, sociologists, and engineers should join forces to develop a conceptual model of rationality and identity of this age.
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Kyselova, Y. (2010). “Panauthority” phenomenon and the issue of identity in the contemporary network society. The role of science, religion, and society in the formation of moral person: Proceedings of the XXVIII International scientific and practical conference (Donetsk, 2010).
My first conference report as a philosophy student within the research project “World 2.0: social dimensions of mediatized reality”. I proposed the first draft of the “panauthority” concept which had become the central idea of my master's degree theses.