Ivan Lapshin

Ivan Ivanovich Lapshin (11 October 1870 – 17 November 1952) was a Russian philosopher, publicist, translator and teacher.

Biography Lapshin was born on 11 October in Moscow. He graduated with his Masters from the Faculty of History and Philology of St. Petersburg University, where he worked mainly under the guidance of Professor Alexander Ivanovich Vvedensky(rus). In the autumn of 1892, he presented his first major work, The Controversy between Gassendi and Descartes on the Meditation (300 pages), for consideration at the faculty. In 1893, at the end of the course, he was left at the university at the department of philosophy "to prepare for a professorship." He taught logic at the Alexander Lyceum, psychology at women's gymnasiums; the history of pedagogical theories at higher women's and military pedagogical courses. In 1906, he was awarded a Doctorate in Philosophy with his dissertation, "The Laws of Thought and Forms of Cognition." At St. Petersburg University, he taught courses on the history of pedagogical theories, on the critical theory of knowledge, on the history of skepticism, and on the history of philosophy in the 19th century. He also supervised the practical classes of students on the study of Kant (analysis of the works " Prolegomena " and "Critique of Pure Reason" ). He taught philosophical subjects at the Pedagogical Institute and…Citește mai mult