Salahaddin Khalilov Explained

Salahaddin Khalilov
Native Name:Xəlilov Səlahəddin Sədrəddun oğlu
Citizenship:Azerbaijan

Salahaddin Khalilov (Azerbaijani: Səlahəddin Sədrəddun oğlu Xəlilov) is an Azerbaijani philosopher.

Scientific-pedagogical activity

He defended his PhD (Kandidat nauk) thesis titled “Systematic Structural Analysis of Scientific and Technological Progress in the USSR” in 1976. After completing his postdoctoral research he defended a thesis titled “Logico-gnoseological issues of Scientific and Technological Progress” in 1989. In the same year, he became a professor and the head of the Philosophy Department at Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University. He founded Azerbaijan University, a private university in Azerbaijan, in 1991, and was its rector until 2006. Since 1994, he has been leading the research center East and West. Khalilov established the international socio-political journal “Ipek Yolu” (The Silk Road) in 1997 and was its Editor-in-Chief until 2005. In 2002, he was elected as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Azerbaijan Association of Philosophy and Socio-Political Sciences (AFSEA). Since 2003, he has been the Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Felsefe ve Sosial-siyasi Elmler” (Philosophy and Socio-Political Sciences). Since 2006, he has been a member of the Presidium of the Higher Attestation Commission under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. In 2007, Prof. Khalilov was elected as the Corresponding-Member[1] of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.

Khalilov’s investigations are mainly focused on Philosophy of Science, Philosophical Comparativism, Phenomenology, Philosophical Aspects of Eastern and Western Civilizations, Philosophy of Abu Turkhan, and Cognitive Theory.

Social and educational activity

Khalilov founded the Junior Physicists School in Azerbaijan in 1972.He was elected as the Chairman of Young Scientists at Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University in 1981, and in 1988 he was elected as the Chairman of Young Humanity Scientists of Azerbaijan.

Khalilov was the a member of the Parliament of Azerbaijan and Deputy-Chairman of the "Science and Education" Permanent Commission of the Parliament from 2000 to 2005.

Selected publications

References

  1. Web site: Corresponding-members of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences . 2011-01-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110706130909/http://www.science.gov.az/en/comembers/khalilovslsn.htm . 2011-07-06 .

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