Bonifaty Mikhailovich Kedrov (Russian: Бонифа́тий Миха́йлович Ке́дров; 10 December [O.S. 27 November] 1903 in Yaroslavl – 10 September 1985 in 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, 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.
Publications
- The Science (1968) in association with Alexander Spirkin
References
- Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich (1 January 2006). Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev. Penn State Press. ISBN 0271028610.
- Kozhevnikov, A. B. (1 January 2004). Stalin's Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists. Imperial College Press. ISBN 9781860944192.
- 1903 births
- 1985 deaths
- People from Yaroslavl
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
- Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences
- Foreign members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
- Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Moscow State University alumni
- Recipients of the Order of Lenin
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Star
- Bolsheviks
- Historians of science
- Philosophers of science
- Soviet chemists
- Soviet logicians
- Soviet philosophers
- Soviet psychologists
- Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery
- Foreign members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 20th-century psychologists