Gorokhov, Vitaly | Russia

Born in Moscow, Russia, in 1947. He studied electronic engineering and philosophy in Moscow and received his doctoral degrees in 1975 and in 1986 at the Institute for Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He founded the Research Group for Philosophy of Technology at this Institute in 1988 and is currently a leading scientist there.

From 1985 he has been lecturing at a number of different Moscow Universities and is currently Professor at the State University for Human Sciences and Deputy Director of the International Institute for Global Problems of Sustainable Development of the International University for Ecological and Political Sciences in Moscow. At the same time he is working in Germany as a scientific coordinator of the German-Russian Postgraduate College and the International Academy for Sustainable Development and Technologies of the University of Karlsruhe and as a scientist at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis of the Karlsruhe Research Center.

Guest Lecturer at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society in June 2002.

His books Methodological Analysis of Systems Engineering (1982), Methodological Analysis of Scientific and Engineering Disciplines (1984), Philosophy of Science and Technology (with V. Stepin and M. Rosov, 1996), P.K. Engelmeyer: Mechanical Engineer and Philosopher of Technology (1997), Conceptions of Modern Natural Science and Technology (2000) were published in Russian and Engineering: Art and Science (1990) in English in Moscow. His articles 'Development of systems engineering theory' (1985), 'Engineering activity, designing and technical knowledge' (1991), 'Politics, progress, and engineering: technical professionals in Russia' (1992), 'Methodological research and problems in the technological sciences' (1995), 'Technological enlightenment in Russia in the 19th and early 20th century and the problems of advancement in the philosophy of technology' (1998), 'Scientific and technological progress, democracy, participation and technology assessment in Russia' (2000), 'A new interpretation of the technological progress' (2001) etc. and his book: Technikphilosophie und Technikfolgenforschung in Russland (2001) were published in the USA, England and Germany.