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                                                                                               1. Fact sheet
                                                                                                2. The overview of researches
                                                                                                3. Studies under way
                                                                                                4. Membership
                                                                                                5. Lecture courses
                                                                                                6. Selected Bibliography

1. Fact sheet
1946 – On May 23, Vladimir Ivanovich Kuznetsov is born in Vienna, Austria, to Vera Vasil’evna Kuznetsova (nee Barylo) and Ivan Vasil’evich Kuznetsov, a regular officer of Soviet Army.
1964-1969 – Student of the physical faculty of the Kyiv State University named after T.G.Shevchenko.
1969 – Receives Master of Science Degree in Physics with Distinction from the Kyiv State University.
1971-1974 – Postgraduate of the Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
1974 – Defends a Candidate Dissertation “The Philosophical Analysis of the Foundations of Elementary Particle Physics”.
1974-1979 – Junior Research Fellow of the Department of Philosophy of Science of the Institute of Philosophy.
1979-1988 – Senior Research Fellow of the Department of Philosophy of Science of the Institute of Philosophy
1987 – Defends a Doctor Dissertation “Forms and Levels of Functioning Universals in Physical Cognition”.
1987 – The Twelfth International Wittgenstein-Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, Travel Grant from Wittgenstein Society.
1988 – Research Grant for 3 Months at Munich University, German-Soviet Exchange Programme, Research Project "Structuralist Program in the Philosophy of Science", Institut für Statistik und Wissenschaftstheorie.
1988-1991 – Lecturer at Philosophical Faculty of Kiev State University named after T.G. Shevchenko (part-time)
1988-1991 – Leading Research Fellow of the Department of Philosophy of Logic and Methodology of Science of the Institute of Philosophy.
1990 – The International Symposium “Structures in Mathematical Theories”, Spain, San Sebastian, Travel Grant from Soros Foundation, Ukrainian Branch.
1991 – Receives a Degree of Professor of Philosophical Problems of Science.
1991 – up to date – Principal Research Fellow of the Department of Philosophy of Logic and Methodology of Science of the Institute of Philosophy.
1992 – The Fiftieth International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, Travel Grant from Wittgenstein Society.
1992 – Grant-in-Aid, Russian Branch of Soros Foundation to support the writing of the textbook on Modern Methodology of Science, 1992-1993 (the textbook was published in 1994 in Moscow).
1993 – 3 Months Scholarship at Birkbeck College of London University from Foreign Office and the Union of Ukrainian Students in the Great Britain, Project "Comparative Analysis of Western Social Theories".
1994 – Guest Co-Editor of Synthese: Symposium on Logic and Philosophy of Science in the Ukraine, 1994, 100, 1.
1994 – Research Grant for 6 Months from the Secretariat for Cultural Exchange Programs of Nor-way, Research Project "The Structures and Functions of Western Social Theories", Norway, Bergen University.
1994 – Session of Organizing Committee of the International Conference “Science, Philosophy and History of Science in Europe” (Brussels), Travel Grant from CEU Commissions.
1994 – The International Conference “Science, Philosophy and History of Science in Europe” (Paris), Travel Grant from CEU Commissions.
1994 – The European Congress on Intelligent Techniques and Soft Computing, Germany, Aachen, Travel Grant from Science Foundation Fond, the USA.
1994 – Learning and Research Grant of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, the first course of the advanced study program "Trends in Scholarship", Waassenaar.
1995 – Research Grant for 2 Months, DAAD, at the Institute of Philosophy, Logic and Theory of Science at Munich University; Research Project “Models of Concepts”.
1996 – Research Grant for 6 Months, the Secretariat for Cultural Exchange Programs of Norway, Joint Research Project "The Classification of Social Concepts”, Norway, Bergen University.
1998 – up to date – Professor of Philosophy of Law and History of Philosophy of Kyiv University of Law (http://www.kul.kiev.ua/)
1999-2000 – Fulbright Scholarship Award, Research Project “An Introduction to Contemporary Le-gal Philosophy”, School of Law, University of Michigan, 1999-2000 Academic Year.
2002 – Research Grant for 3 Months from DAAD at the Institute of Philosophy, Logic and Theory of Science at Munich University, Research Project “Relations between Concepts”.
2007 – Research Grant for 1 Month from DAAD at the Institute of Philosophy, Logic and Theory of Science at Munich University, Research Project “Transformations of Scientific Concepts”.
2008 – up to date А Professor of the National University “Kyiv-Mohila Academy” http://www.ukma.kiev.ua/ua/faculties/fac_prn/phisics/vykladachi/index.php
2010 – A Visiting Scholar at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen, Norway, September
2. The overview of researches
The philosophy of physics. The statement on the direction of categorical transformation of physics from conceptualization of immutability to that of mutability and then to that of interaction and evolvement was put forward and grounded. Resolving the problem of physical cognition universals has been connected with an elaboration of the specific system of tools and methods of identifying, individuating and distinguishing objects from a fundamental theory domain.
The Weltanschauung of modern science. The role of vacuum conception and the idea of existence types (actual and potential, observable and non-observable, virtual and hidden) were analyzed. Heuristic and regulative functions of categories of substance, world as a whole, relative and absolute, anthropic and self-development principles were singled out (in collaboration with S. Crymski, 1930-2010).
The methodology of science. The unified structure-nominative reconstruction of scientific knowledge system was built in collaboration with M. Burgin. According to it, any matured scientific knowledge system includes hierarchically organized and complex subsystems that partially and separately have been studied by standard, structuralist, instrumentalist, problem-solving, value and other directions in the current methodology of science. 1) The logico-linguistic subsystem expresses by means of different, including mathematical, languages and normalizes by means of various logical tools the information available on objects under study. 2) The model-representing subsystem comprises incident to knowledge system ways of modeling and understanding these objects. 3) The pragmatic-procedural subsystem contains general and specific for the knowledge system operations, methods, procedures, algorithms and applications. 4) From the viewpoint of the problem-heuristic subsystem, the matured knowledge systems is a unique way of setting and resolving questions, problems, puzzles and tasks of cognition of objects studied. It also includes various heuristics and estimations (truth, consistency, beauty, efficacy, adequacy, heuristicity etc) of other components and structures of the knowledge system. 5) The subsystem of links fixes interrelations between abovementioned components, structures and subsystems of the knowledge system.
The structure-nominative reconstruction has been used in the methodological and comparative analysis of mathematical, economic, political, pedagogical, social and sociological theories. It has widened notions of knowledge structures, for instance, those connected with a multitude of theoretical levels and with an application of numerous mathematical languages. It has deepened the notions on relations between the main directions of knowledge system studies. They are interpreted as dealing mainly with isolated subsystems of knowledge system. This reconstruction has disclosed a variety of before un-known knowledge structures, for example, those associated with principles of symmetry and super-symmetry and with laws of various levels and degrees.
The concept studies. The triplet model of concepts was suggested and has been elaborated. According to it, any scientific concept is a dependent on cognitive situation, dynamical, multifunctional state of scientist’s consciousness related to her thinking, knowledge system and cognition. A concept is modeled as being consisted from three interrelated structures. The concept base characterizes objects falling under a concept as well as properties and relations of such objects. The logical modeling reveals partially the concept base by notions of volume and content. The concept representing part includes structures and means (names, language expressions, abstract properties, quantitative values of object properties and relations, mathematical equations and their systems, theoretical models etc) of object representation in the appropriate knowledge system. The concept linkage gives a structures and procedures that connect components and substructures from the first two concept structures.
The partial cases of the triplet model are logical, information, two-tired, standard, exemplar, prototype, knowledge-dependent and other concept models. It has been introduced the triplet classification that comprises several hundreds of concepts. Different kinds of fuzziness are distinguished. Even the most precise and exact concepts are fuzzy in some triplet aspect. The notions of relations between real scientific concepts are essentially extended. For example, the definition and strict analysis of such relations as formalization, quantification, mathematization, generalization and identity of various kinds are proposed. The concepts “PLANET” and “ELEMENTARY PARTICLE” and some of their metamorphoses were analyzed in triplet terms.
The philosophy of law. It was originated the conception of philosophy of law as a discipline dealing with an elaboration of understanding, founding, estimating and criticizing law. The basic in-formation on the major directions in current Western philosophy of law (legal realism, feminism, criticism, postmodernism, economical analysis of law etc) is introduced to Ukrainian audience. The classification of more than fifty directions in modern legal philosophy is suggested.

3. Studies under way.
Generalization of the triplet concept model.
Triplet and multiplet modeling changes of scientific concepts.
Analysis of composition and functions of legal theories.
Problems of reforming the Ukrainian fundamental sciences in collaboration with doctor in physics and mathematics A.Gabovich.

4. Membership
The Ukrainian Branch of the Philosophical Society of the USSR (1976-1991).
Philosophy of Science Association (USA) (1992-2002).
The Ukrainian Association of Legal Philosophy and Social Philosophy (A Division of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy) (2003-2009).
Co-founders and Deputy of Chairman of All-Ukrainian Association “For European Values in Science” (co-founders A.Gabovich and R.Cherniha www.ukrnauka.org.ua) (2006 – suspended membership in 2008).
Ukrainian Scientific Club (2008- up to date) http://www.nauka.in.ua/members/vladimir-kuznetsov

5. Lecture courses
Philosophy of Physics
History of Philosophy
Philosophy of Law
Conceptions of Contemporary Science
Methodology of Scientific Research
Scientific Theory: Functions, Composition, Subsystems
Scientific Concepts: Functions and Structures

6. Selected Bibliography
(Full Bibliography see www.filosof.com.ua/Kuznetsov.htm)
Electronic versions may be sent by request
Books
Philosophical Analysis of the Foundations of Elementary Particle Physics, Kiev: Naukova dumka, 1977 (In Russian) Rev.: U.Röseberg // Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie. – 1979. – № 2. – S. 254-257 Abstract and Contents (in English)
Weltanschauung's Categories in Modern Science (coauthor S.Crymski), Kiev: Naukova dumka, 1983 (In Russian) Abstract and Contents (in English)
The Problem of Universals in Physical Cognition, Kiev: Naukova dumka, 1987 (In Russian) Abstract and Contents (in English)
The Axiological Aspects of Scientific Theories (coauthor Burgin), Kiev: Naukova dumka, 1991 (In Russian) (Rev.: D.Rothbart, Erkenntnis, 1993, 38, 2: 281-283; M.Kuokkanen. Studia Logica, 1993, 52, 1: 175-179) Summary and Contents (in English)
The World of Theories and Power of Mind (coauthor Burgin), Kiev: Ukraine, 1991 (In Russian) Abstract and Contents (in English)
The Nomological Structures of Scientific Theories (coauthor Burgin), Kiev: Naukova dumka, 1993 (In Russian) Abstract, Summary and Contents (in English)
An Introduction to the Exact Methodology of Science, (coauthor Burgin),Moscow: Aspect, 1994 (In Russian), (Sponsored by Soros Foundation) Abstract and Contents (in English)
A Concept and Its Structures: The Methodological Analysis. Kiev: Institute of Philosophy, 1997 (In Russian) (Sponsored by President of Wittgenstein Society Adolf Hubner, Austria)Abstract, Contents, Summary and Bibliography (in English). (Rev.: Y.Shramko, Knowledge Organization, 2001, 8, 2: 95-97) Available at http://filosof.academia.edu/VladKuznetsov/Books/236647/A-CONCEPT-AND-ITS-STRUCTURES--THE-METHODOLOGICAL-ANALYSIS-
Philosophy of Law. History and Modernity, Kyiv: Stylos, 2003 (In Ukrainian) (Sponsored by Fulbright exchange Program) (Rev.: N.Semenova, IVR Newsletter, 2004, 33: 35; M.Trofimenko, Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 2005, 30, 1: 133-136) Abstract and Contents (in English)
An Introduction to History of Philosophy. Textbook. Kyiv University of Law, 2008 (In Ukrainian) Abstract and Contents (in English)
Russian translation of History of Philosophy by Gunnar Skirbekk and Nils Gilje, Moscow: Vlados, 800 p. (reprints 2000, 2001, 2003, 2008, 50 000 copies).

Abstract and Papers
The Laws of Nature and Kinds of Existence // Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: (Papers of Soviet Scientists Submitted to the Soviet National Organization Committee for the VII International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Austria, Salzburg, 11–16 July 1983). – Мoscow, 1983. – P.100-103.
Informal and Formal Analysis of Concepts (Wittgenstein's case) / coauthor M.S.Burgin, in Philosophy of Law, Politics, and Society. Abstracts of The Twelfth International Wittgenstein Symposium. – Wien: Hölder– Pichler–Tempsky, 1987. – P.11.
Models, Laws and Principles in Physical Theories / coauthor M.S.Burgin, in Abstracts of the Eighth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. – Moscow: Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1987. – Vol.2. – P.67–69.
Scientific Theory and Its Axiology / coauthor M.S.Burgin, in Ibid. –Vol. 4, part 1. – P. 116–118.
Informal and Formal Analysis of Concepts / coauthor M.S.Burgin, in Law-Politics-Society: Reports of the Twelfth International Wittgenstein–Symposium 7th to 14th August 1987, Kirchberg am Wechsel (Austria). – Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1988. – P.163–166.
Laws and Their Forms of Representation in Physical Theories / coauthor M.S.Burgin, in Abstracts of The Thirteenth International Wittgenstein-Symposium. Kirchberg am Wechsel: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1988. – P. 44.
The Structure–Nominative Reconstruction of Scientific Knowledge / coauthor M.S.Burgin, in Epistemologia,1988, XI: 235–254.
Logical and Structural Principles of Knowledge Representation in Computer Systems / coauthor M.S.Burgin, in Conference on Intelligent Management Systems. – Varna: Institute of Mathematics of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1989. – P. 269–272.
On Structural Unity of Mathematical and Physical Theories / coauthor M.S.Burgin, in Reports of the San Sebastian International Symposium“Structures in Mathematical Theories”, September 25–29, 1990. – San Sebastian: Universidad del Pais Vasco, 1990. – P.19-22.
Laws and Forms of Their Representation in Physical Theories / coauthor M.Burgin // Abstracts of the Ninth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. – Uppsala, Sweden, 1991. – Vol.III. – P.10.
Reduction and the Structure–Nominative View of Theories / coauthors W.Balzer and M.Burgin // – Ibid. – Vol.II. – P.6.
The Structure and Development of Mathematical Theories / coauthor M.Burgin, in Modern Logic, USA, 1991, 2, 1: 3–28.
Algebraic Structures of Mathematical Theories / coauthor M.S.Burgin, in Abstracts of the Fifteenth International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel. – 1992. – P.8.
Fuzzy Sets as Named Sets / coauthor M.S.Burgin, in Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Elsevier, 1992,46: 189-192.
Mathematical Theory History as Changes of Theory's Subsystems / coauthor M.S.Burgin, in Abstracts of the Fifteenth International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, 1992. – P.32.
Model Part of a Scientific Theory / coauthor M.S.Burgin, in Epistemologia, 1992, XV: 95–118.
The Structure–Nominative Reconstruction and Intelligibility of Cognition / coauthor M.S.Burgin, in Epistemologia, 1992, XV: 219-238.
The Structure–Nominative Analysis of Theoretical Knowledge (Ideas, Results and Perspectives) / coauthor M.S.Burgin – Kiev: Institute of Philosophy, 1992. – 34 p.
The Structure–Nominative Reconstruction of Scientific Theories and Faces of Realism / coauthor M.S.Burgin, in Beijing International Conference on Philosophy of Science. – 1992. – P.10.
A Formal Aesthetic for Scientific Discourse. The Beauty Measures of a Scientific Theory / coauthor M.S.Burgin, in Anglo–Ukrainian Studies in the Analysis of Scientific Discourse. Reason and Rhetoric / Ed. by R.Harre. – Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1993. P. 69-93.
On Methodological Analysis of Sociological Theories / coauthor M.S.Burgin, in Die Verschmelzung der Untersuchungsbereiche. Formen des Dialogs zwischen Kulturwissenschaften und Wissenschaftstheorie / Ed. by D.Ginev. – Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1993. S.49–61.
Properties in Science and Their Modelling / coauthor M.S.Burgin, in Quality and Quantity, 1993, 27: 371–382.
Types of Fuzzy Nomological Structures / coauthor M.S.Burgin, in First European Congress on Fuzzy and Intelligent Technology. September 7–10, 1993, – Aachen: Verlag der Augustinus Buchhandlung, 1993. – Vol. 3. – P.1625-1631.
Scientific Problems and Questions from a Logical Point of View / coauthor M.S.Burgin, in Synthese, 1994, 100, 1, Р.1-28.
Types of Fuzzy Concepts, in Proceedings of the Second European Congress on Intelligent Techniques and Soft Computing. Aachen, Germany, September 20-23, 1994. – Vol. 2. – Aachen: Verlag der Augustinus Buchhandlung, 1994. – P. 675-679.
On the Triplet Approach to Concept Representation, in Volume of Abstracts of the 10th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. – Florence, 1995. – P.541.
Theories and Concept Metamorphoses, in Cogita humana – Dynamik des Wissens und der Werte. XVII Deutscher Kongreß für Philosophie / Hrsg. von C.Hubig und H.Poser. – Workshop-Beiträge. – Band 1. – Leipzig:Allgemeine Gesellschaft für Philosophie in Deutschland und Institut für Philosophie der Universität Leipzig , 1996.— S.568-575.
On Triplet Classification of Concepts, in Knowledge Organization, 1997, 24,3: 163-175.
Ex-Soviet Philosophy of Science and Its Teaching: Totalitarian Past and Uncertain Future, in Science, in Philosophie et Histoire des Sciences en Europe / Ed. by D.Lecourt – Paris: European Communities, 1998. – Р. 78-81.
Types of Concept Fuzziness / coauthor E.Kuznetsova, in Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 1998, 96, 2: 129-138.
Conditions and Features of Unity Concept in Science, in World Views and the Problem of Synthesis. The Yellow Book of `Einstein Meets Magritte' / Ed.by D.Aerts, H.Van Belle, J.Van der Veken. – Berlin: Springer, 1999. – P. 217-228.
On the Triplet Frame for Concept Analysis, in Theoria, 1999, 14, 34: 39-62.
The Triplet Modeling of Concept Relations, in Abstracts of the 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. — Cracow: The Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, 1999. – P.366.
The Triplet Modeling of Representing Relations between Object Concepts, in Proceedings of The Twelfth European-Japanese Conference on Information Modeling and Knowledge Bases, May 2002. – Krippen, Germany, 2002.– P.14-23.
The Triplet Modeling of Concept Connections, in Philosophical Dimensions of Logic and Science. Selected Contributed Papers from the Eleventh International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science. / Ed. by A.Rojszczak, J.Cachro and G.Kurczewski, Kraców, 1999.Synthese Library. – Vol.320. – Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2003. – P.317-330.
On Representing Relations between Physical Concepts, inCommunicationandCognition, 2004, 37, 2: 105-135.
The Scientific Concepts and Their Changes, in Міжнародна наукова конференція “Дні науки філософського факультету-2005”: Матеріали доповідей та виступів. Ч. II. – К.: Філософський факультет Київського національного університету ім. Т.Г.Шевченко, 2005. – С.68-69.
Structures of Legal Theory, in Special Workshops of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy “Law and Legal Cultures in the 21st Century: Diversityand Unity August 1-6, 2007 Kraków”, Poland; http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/ivr2007/special_workshops.php.
Is Corruption in Scholarship Possible? / coauthor O.Gabovich, in The Fulbright Program in Ukraine, Yearbook, 2006-2007. – Pp. 88-90. http://www.fulbright.org.ua/app/yb2006/03_4.pdf
The Meanings of Legal Theories, in Law and Legal Cultures in the 21st Century: Diversity and Unity. Working Groups Abstracts. 23rd World IVR Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. August 1-6, 2007 Kraków http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/ivr2007/Abstracts_WG.pdf
Variables of Scientific Concept Modeling and Their Formalization, in Философия математики: актуальные проблемы. Тезисы второй международной конференции. МГУ, ГУВШЭ. 28-30 мая 2009 г. М.: МАКС Пресс, 2009. – P.268-290.
Die Tripelstruktur der Begriffe /coauthor W.Balzer, Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie / 2010. 41, 1: 21-44. http://www.springerlink.com/content/b513803825436174/

In print
Hamburger Bilanz der Grundlagenforschung oder Hic Rhodos, hic salta / coauthor O.Gabovich, in Elitenbildung im postsowjetischen Raum: Analysen und Erfahrungsberichte von DAAD-Alumni aus der Ukraine / Siegbert Klee, Martin Sandhop, Oxana Schwaika und Andreas Umland (Hrsg.). – Stuttgart/Hannover: ibidem-Verlag.
Unerwartete Blüte, gesetzmäßiger Verfall der ukrainischen Wissenschaften / coauthor O.Gabovich, Elitenbildung im postsowjetischen Raum: Analysen und Erfahrungsberichte von DAAD-Alumni aus der Ukraine / Siegbert Klee, Martin Sandhop, Oxana Schwaika und Andreas Umland (Hrsg.). – Stuttgart/Hannover: ibidem-Verlag.