Bonifaty Kedrov family name Kedrov
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.
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.
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