Dear colleagues!

This year holds symbolic significance for our journal Philosophy. Journal of the Higher School of Economics. We are celebrating our tenth anniversary. Unfortunately, we cannot fully rejoice in this milestone in light of the recent and distant events in the world of philosophy. In 2025 we lost Tatiana Sidorina, who had been a member of the journal's international editorial board from its very beginning. This is an irreplaceable loss. We all miss her greatly. And, of course, her memory will forever remain in our hearts — the hearts of her colleagues from the journal and the School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies. Then, in March 2026, we lost Jürgen Habermas, perhaps, the last systematic philosopher of our time. Yet life goes on. Besides our journal’s anniversary, this year also marks the centenary of Michel Foucault. We could not let this event pass unnoticed. Therefore, the first two articles of this issue are dedicated to Foucault. Oleg Kharkhordin, using Foucault’s methodology, analyzes Old Russian texts. Alexander Arkhipov, in turn, argues that Foucault’s genealogy can be read as conceptual engineering and, as such, could solve the problem of the role of facts in the history of creation and usage of concepts. And where there is Foucault, there is also Agamben. Artur Kostomarov has written on inaction in Agamben’s philosophy.

In the same “Practical Philosophy” section, we continue with an article by Evgeniy Popov, which demonstrates in what directions of phenomenology there is a reception of authorial principle (history, creativity, experience), and how intentionality manifests itself in them, allowing a subject to experience being and recognize the facets of the world order. Next, Regina Penner traces the transition from algorithmic culture to algorithmic rationality. She believes that today algorithms are becoming agents of social, cultural, and other processes. Thus, algorithmic rationality erases the boundaries between human and machine, and computation becomes the primary mechanism for meaning-making.

At the end of 2025, by the way, one event occurred in the sphere of pop-culture: a long-running project came to an end — the fifth and final season of the TV series Stranger Things was released. The series, which started in 2016, is one year older than our journal. So, this marvel of mass culture has ended, but we have not. We expect so much that Philosophy. Journal of the Higher School of Economics will continue to be published for more than just another season. Be that as it may, our colleagues from Nizhny Novgorod, Ekaterina Fomina and Vladimir Afanasev, wrote on the well-known intermediality of Stranger Things precisely as the show ended. This article closes the “Practical Philosophy” section, and we now move on to the next major block, “History of Philosophy and Logic”.

This section begins with an article by Timur Saev. He examines the role of Gershom Carmichael in the turn towards natural law from Aristotelianism and scholasticism in early 18th-century Scottish philosophy. David Rozhin argues that for the early Florensky Kant’s philosophy was not only an object of criticism but also a stimulus for the development of his own original thought. Following this, Nikolay Vasiliev critically analyzes emergent dualism as presented in the philosophy of William Hasker and Dean Zimmerman. Next in the section, Ivan Karpenko offers arguments in favor of a modified version of information-structural realism. Finally, Anna Moiseyeva and Mikhail Smirnov demonstrate the interrelation between two important ideas in contemporary logic and semantics — implicative relevance and denotative relevance. This will surely be of interest to logicians. The authors believe that implicative relevance can be reduced to denotative relevance, and vice versa, and they formally justify the second reducibility.

The “Publications and Translations” section presents Chapter XII of Part 3 of Ludovico Marracci's Introduction to the Refutation of the Quran, translated by Ivan Lupandin and Grigoriy Konson. The “Book Reviews” section opens with a response by Irina Sizemskaya to the third (!) volume of Sergey Nikolsky's The Soviet. This next part of the series is devoted to the “new man”. Next, we return to logic: Vitaliy Dolgorukov and Elena Popova review Dirk Hoffman’s The Limits of Mathematics. Anastasia Kucherova discusses how Western scholars view Andrei Tarkovsky, using John Hoel’s monograph on Stalker as an example. Finally, this section concludes with my own review of Harlan Wilson’s book on Minority Report, which I read from a socio-philosophical perspective.

The issue has turned out to be substantial and, we dare to hope, interesting. Thank you for being with us. We want to believe that during this anniversary year we will publish many more intriguing materials.

Alexander Pavlov