Bonifaty Kedrov

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Bonifaty Mikhailovich Kedrov (born 10 December 1903 in Yaroslavl; died 10 September 1985 in Moscow) was a Soviet thinker and scientist. He worked as a researcher, philosopher, logician, chemist and psychologist, and he specialized in dialectical materialism and the philosophy of science. He was the son of Bolshevik leader Mikhail Kedrov and joined the Bolsheviks in 1918. Kedrov earned a Doctor of Philosophy and studied philosophical questions about the natural sciences. He became a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1966 and wrote more than a thousand publications. In 1963 he joined the International Academy of the History of Science and other institutions. He helped start and was the first editor-in-chief of the leading Soviet philosophy journal Problems of Philosophy (Voprosy Filosofii) from 1947 to 1949.