Merab Mamardashvili

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Merab Mamardashvili on the cover of his book The Arrow of Cognition

Merab Mamardashvili (მერაბ მამარდაშვილი in Georgian. 1930-1990) was a Georgian philosopher, Doctor of Sciences (1968), Professor (1972). He was born in Gori (Eastern Georgia). In 1955 he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Moscow State University. In 1968-1987 he was a Deputy Editor of the scientific journal "Voprosi Filosofii" ("Questions of Philosophy"), a Professor of the Moscow State University and a Senior Research Fellow of the Moscow Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Science. In 1987-1990 Mamardashvili was head of the Department of the Tsereteli Institute of Philosophy of the Georgian Academy of Sciences and Professor of the Tbilisi State University. He has also held lectures in Germany, France and other countries.

Influenced by classical German philosophy (especially Immanuel Kant), Mamardashvili contributed to rationalist theory of perception.

In May 2001 a monument to him was unveiled in Tbilisi.

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Forms and Contents of Thinking (1968) (Формы и содержание мышления)
The Problem of Objective Method in Psychology (1977)
Символ и сомнение ,1982, together with A.Piatigorsky
Classic and Non-classic Ideals of Rationality (1984) (Классические и неклассические идеалы рациональности)
Phenomenology and its Role in Contemporary Philosophy (1988)
How Do I Understand Philosophy? (1990) (Как я понимаю философию)
Conscious and the Philosophical Calling (1988)
Cartesian Thoughts (published 1993) (Картезианские размышления)
Psychological Topology of Path (Lectures on Proust) (1997) (Психологическая топология пути (Лекции о Прусте))