Andrei Patkul is a Candidate of Sciences in Philosophy, Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy of Science and Technologies of the Saint Petersburg State University, Associate Editor of Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology. He graduated from the philosophical faculty of the Saint Petersburg University (1999). The candidate theses The Conceptualizations of Being in the Absolute Idealism of Hegel and Fundamental Ontology of Heidegger defended in 2004. Author of over 180 scientific publications, including the monograph under the title The Idea of Philosophy as a Science of Being in the Fundamental Ontology of Martin Heidegger (2020). Two research internships: University of Passau, Germany (2002 – 2003) and Edmund Husserl Archive at the University Freiburg, Germany (2009). Translator from German of works of S. Maimon, F.W.J. Schelling, N. Hartmann, and C. F. Gethmann.
His today’s research interest includes:
Philosophia prima, ontology, metaphysics, philosophy as a system, philosophy as a science, philosophy as philosophizing, philosophy and freedom.
Basic concepts of the first philosophy: being, that-which-is, substance, essence, entities, existence, transcendence, world, subject, object, relation, ground, causality, function, event, necessity, actuality, contingency, etc.
Philosophy of science, especially the problem of the correlation of non-philosophical (positive) sciences and philosophy, grounding of non-philosophical sciences by philosophy, regional ontologies, objectivation, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind
Phenomenology of digital reality, digital objects, res digitalis
Historically: Plato, Aristotle, Kant and early reception of his philosophy, Hegel, Schelling, Husserl, Heidegger, Nicolai Hartmann, Oskar Becker