KHACHATUR ABOVYAN ARMENIAN STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY

The conference “Theoretical and Practical Problems of Development of Transforming Society /philosophical and psychological perspectives/” continued its work in various

 sections.

The second section was managed by the Head of the Department of Philosophy of Innsbruck University Hans Kohler, the Head of the Department of Foreign Languages of the RA NAS, PhD, Professor Will Poghosyan, and the ASPU Head of Department, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Hasmik Hovhannisyan. 

The Head of the Department of Foreign Languages of the RA NAS, PhD, Professor Will Poghosyan presented his report on the subject “Management Styles and State Manners in the Modern World”. In his report the PhD, Professor discussed the three forms of the state- republic, monarchy, and timocracy, the name standing for the type of government formed on ambitions of people ruling rough and competing clans and groups.

The next report was made by the Professor of Minsk State University, PhD Vladimir Berkov. The topic of his report was “Argumentation as a Process of Logical Communication”.

According to Vladimir Berkov, the argumentation profile on the semantic-syntactic level, as accepted in traditional logics, is extremely restricted. 

The Professor considers that it leads to identification of argumentation and proof, refutation and affirmation, which is usually obvious in the communication of the addressee and addresser in the case of analysis of connection and means of interaction.

Afterward, the ASPU Head of the Department of Literature, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor, the Associate Member of the RA NAS Aelita Daloukhanyan, in her report headed “Evaluation of the 5th century Armenian Philosopher Yeznik Koghbatsi by the Armenologists in France”, touches upon the 5th century Armenian literature, the translational literature that has already become a global value, as well as the deep analysis of the personal characteristics of Yeznik Koghbatsi and his works by foreigners.

Next in turn, the Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Professor, the Vice Chancellor of the Interlingua Linguistic University, Henry Grigoryan, touched upon one of the main topics of Metaphilosophy- the co-relation of mysticism and rationalism in his report “Mysticism and Rationalism –Problems of Metaphilosophy”. He introduced the problem of co-existence between the mysticism and rationalism on the example of the “Wittgenstein ladder” which, according to the reporter, is the best sample of the controversial co-existence of the two contrasting concepts. 

More to the above mentioned, reports were also made by the Professor of the Department of Logics after M. Lomonossov, Associate Professor of Philosophical Sciences, Yuri Ivlev, as well as by the Assistant in the Departments at Armenian State Economic University and at the ASPU, David Mossinyan, and by the Acting Head of the Department of Philosophy and Logics at the ASPU, Associate Professor Hasmik Hovhannisyan. 

The Co-Heads of the section later presented some questions on the reports made, and the Austrian Philosopher Hans Kohler also drew parallels between the Western Countries and our country within the context of the problems discussed.