Articles in Academic Journals

  • “Action, Epistemology and The Riddle of the Self”. Studies in Soviet Thought, 24, 1982, 185209.
    • Extract translated into Chinese as “Mikhailov’s Theory of Knowledge,” Philosophy in Translation (Zhe-Xue-Yi-Cong) 1983, No. 3, 35-41.
  • “Marxism and Ethical Particularism: a Response to Steven Lukes’s Marxism and Morality.”  Praxis, 5 (2), 1985, 20923.
  • “Thought, Speech and the Genesis of Meaning: on the 50th Anniversary of Vygotsky’s Myshlenie i rech’.” Studies in Soviet Thought, 31, 1986, 10329. (Included, revised, as Ch.3 of Consciousness and Revolution in Soviet Philosophy.)
  • (with Carol Padden) “The Meshcheryakov Experiment: Soviet Work on the Education of Blind-Deaf Children”.  Learning and Instruction, 1, 1991, 201-15.
  • “On Lying and Deceiving”. Journal of Medical Ethics, 18, 1992, 63-66.
  • “Soviet Philosophy in Transition: an Interview with Vladislav Lektorsky”.  Studies in Soviet Thought, 44, 1992, 33-50.  (Text translated from Russian.)
  • “Lessons from Ilyenkov”. Communication Review, 1 (2), 1995, 155-78.
  • “Social Being and the Human Essence: An Unresolved Issue in Soviet Philosophy”.  Studies in East European Thought, 47, 1995, 3-60. (A dialogue with F.T. Mikhailov, V.S. Bibler, V.A. Lektorsky, and V.V. Davydov. Text translated from Russian.)
  • “On the Social Constitution of Mind: Bruner, Ilyenkov and the Defence of Cultural Psychology”.  Mind, Culture and Activity, 2 (3), 1995, 158-171. (Earlier version of “Strong Culturalism”, see Chapters in Books, below.)
  • “Filosofiya deyatel’nosti”. Voprosy filosofii (Questions of Philosophy), 1996, no.5, 72-79.
    • Reprinted in V.A. Lektorsky (ed.), Filosofiya ne konchaetsa (Philosophy Does Not End), vol. 2. Moscow: Rosspen, 1998, 459-71.
    • Translated into English as “The Philosophy of Activity”. Russian Studies in Philosophy, 36 (1) (Summer 1997), 47-56.
  • “Particolarismo etico in contesto: MacIntyre, Dancy e la struttura delle ragioni morali”.  Studi Perugini, II, no.1 (1997), 155-176.  (Italian version of “Ethical Particularism in Context”, see Chapters in Books, below.)
  • “Pragmatism and Moral Knowledge”.  C. Misak (ed), Pragmatism, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, supplementary volume 24 (1999), 227-52.
  • “Meaning, Normativity and the Life of the Mind”. Language and Communication, 17 (1), 1997, 33-51.
    • Translated into Russian as “Kul’tura, normativnost’ i zhizn’ razuma”, Voprosy filosofii (Questions of Philosophy), 1999, no.9, 159-77.
  • (with Vesa Oittinen) “The Continuing Importance of Soviet Philosophical Traditions Today.  An Interview with David Bakhurst.”  Idäntutkimus.  The Finnish Review of East European Studies, 7(1), 2000, 37-44.
    • Translated into German as “Die bleibende Bedeuting der sowjetischen philosophischen Traditionen.  Ein Interview mit David Bakhurst”.  Berliner Debatte, 12 (2001), 4: 60-66.
  • “Ilyenkov on Aesthetics: Realism, Imagination, and the End of Art”, Mind, Culture, and Activity 8(2), 2001: 187-99.   
  • “Particularism and Moral Education”, Philosophical Explorations, 8, 2005, 265-79.
  • “Ilyenkov on Education”, Studies in East European Thought, 57, 2005, no.3-4, 261-75.
  • “Wiggins on Persons and Human Nature”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, LXXI, 2005, 462-69.  (Included, revised, as part of Ch.3 of The Formation of Reason.)
  • “K voprosu ob evoliutsii teorii deyatel’nosti” (On the Evolution of Activity Theory), Kul’turno-istoricheskaya psikhologiya (Cultural-Historical Psychology), 2006, no.4, 79-84.
  • “O ponyatii oposredstvovaniya” (“On the Concept of Mediation”), Kul’turno-istoricheskaya psikhologiya (Cultural-Historical Psychology), 2007, no.5, 61-66.
  • “Minds, Brains, and Education”, Journal of Philosophy of Education, 42, 3-4, 2008, 415-432.
    • Reprinted in Ruth Cigman and Andrew Davis (eds.), New Philosophies of Learning.  Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, 57-74.
    • Translated into Russian as “Psikhika, mozg i obrazovanie”, Voprosy filosofii (Questions of Philosophy), 2013, no. 11, 50-65.
  • “Reflections on Activity Theory”, Educational Review, 61 (2), 2009: 197-210. (Revised and expanded version of “K voprosu ob evoliutsii teorii deyatel’nosti” (above).)
  • “The Riddle of the Self Revisited”, Studies in East European Thought, 2011, 63: 63-73.
    • Translated as “Eshchyo raz o «Zagadka chelovecheskogo ya»”, Voprosy filosofii (Questions of Philosophy), 2010, no. 8, 88-96.
  • “Freedom and Second Nature in The Formation of Reason”, Mind, Culture, and Activity, 19 (2), 2012, 172-189.
  • “Learning from Others”, Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2013, 47.2, 187-203.
    • Reprinted in Kotzee, B. (ed.), Education and the Growth of Knowledge: Perspectives from Social and Virtue Epistemology.  Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014, 36-54.
  • “Il’enkov’s Hegel”, in D. Bakhurst and I. Kliger (eds), Hegel in Russia. Studies in East European Thought (Special Issue) 65 (3-4), December 2013, 271-285.
    • Translated as “Il’enkovskii Gegel’”, in V. Lektorsky (ed), Problemy i diskussii v filosofii Rossii vtoroi poloviny XX veka: sovremennyi vzglyad (Problems and Debates in Russian Philosophy in the Second Half of the 20thCentury: Contemporary Perspectives), Moscow: Nauka, 2014, 215-236.
  • (with Ilya Kliger), “Preface: Hegel in Russia”, in D. Bakhurst and I. Kliger (eds), Hegel in Russia. Studies in East European Thought (Special Issue) 65 (3-4), December 2013, 155-157.
  • “Otvet na stat’iu Toma Rokmora ‘Il’enkov ob idealakh, opredmechivanii i stoimosti’” (Reply to Tom Rockmore’s ‘Ilyenkov on ideals, objectification and value’” (in Russian), Voprosy filosofii (Questions of Philosophy), 2015, No.5, 116-120.
  • “Training, Transformation, and Education”, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 76, May 2015, 301-327. (Revised and expanded version of “Training and Transformation”, see Chapters in Books, below.)
  • “Exploring the Formation of Reason”, contribution to the symposium: “Second Nature, Bildung, and McDowell: David Bakhurst’s The Formation of Reason”, Journal of Philosophy of Education 50 (1), 2016, 76-83.
  • “Reply to Rödl, Standish and Derry”, contribution to the symposium: “Second Nature, Bildung, and McDowell: David Bakhurst’s The Formation of Reason”, Journal of Philosophy of Education 50 (1) 2016, 123-129.
  • (with Sergio Sismondo) “Commentary on Ilya Kasavin’s ‘Towards a Social Philosophy of Science: Russian Prospects’.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 6 (4), (2017): 20-23. 
  • “Activity, Action and Self-consciousness”, Educational Review, 70 (1) (2018): 91-99, DOI: 10.1080/00131911.2018.1388618.
  • “On Lenin’s Materialism and Empirocriticism”, Studies in East European Thought, 70 (2018): 107–119, DOI: 10.1007/s11212-018-9303-7.
  • “Trouble with Knowledge”, Philosophy, 93 (3) (2018): 433–453.
  • “Practice, Sensibility, and Moral Education”, Journal of Philosophy of Education, 52 (4) (2018): 677–694.
  • “Teaching and Learning: Epistemic, Metaphysical and Ethical Dimensions—Introduction”, Journal of Philosophy of Education 54 (2) (2020): 255–267.
  • “Teaching, Telling and Technology”, Journal of Philosophy of Education 54 (2) (2020): 305–318.
  • “Analysis and Transcendence in The Sovereignty of Good”, European Journal of Philosophy 28 (2020): 214–223. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12539.
  • “Après le déluge: Teaching and learning in the age of COVID”. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 55 (4–5) (2021): 621–632. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12616.
  • (with Martin Sticker) “Kant on Education and Improvement: Themes and Problems”, Journal of Philosophy of Education, 55 (6) (2021): 1–12 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12631
  • “Human Nature, Reason and Morality”, Journal of Philosophy of Education, 55 (6), 2021: 1–16.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12600
  • “Categorical Moral Requirements”/«Категорические моральные требования», Kantian Journal/Кантовский сборник, 41(1) (2022), pp. 40–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.5922/0207-6918-2022-1-2.
  • “Education for Metaphysical Animals”, Journal of Philosophy of Education, 56 (6), 2022: 812–826.   https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12693
  • “Philosophy, Activity, Life”, Philosophy of Science and Technology/Философия науки и техники, 27 (12), 2022: 31–45. DOI: 10.21146/2413-9084-2022-27-2-31-45
  • “Introduction to the Suite: Symposium on Philip Kitcher’s The Main Enterprise of the World: Rethinking Education”, Journal of Philosophy of Education, 57(2), 2023: 369–372.  https://doi.org/10.1093/jopedu/qhad036
  • “Ilyenkov and Vygotsky on Imagination”, Studies in East European Thought, forthcoming 2024.