Siyaves Azeri
Biographic Data
| ID | 332967 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Siyaves Azeri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Siyaves |
| FAMILY NAME | Azeri |
| SIGNATURE | AZERI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Babeș-Bolyai University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3765-2489 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Nature and scientific knowledge
Vygotsky on Method and the Education of the Children with Disabilities
Vygotsky’s approach to the problem of method in face of the crisis in psychology is actual today as was in his time and contributes to the debates concerning the formation of psychology as a mature science. Despite undergoing different stages of development, Vygotsky’s method and theory form a totality that facilitates understanding each of its stages as much as its different constituents. The thread that constitutes this unity in diversity is th…
Agency, Machine-thinking, and Fetishism
This paper critiques two dominant perspectives on agency within digital capitalism. Proponents of the cognitive capitalism thesis claim that cognitive labourers develop a novel, autonomous subjectivity that escapes capitalist control, potentially enabling a post-capitalist transformation. In contrast, Steinhoff (2021), drawing on Ramtin (1991), argues that the application of AI and digital machinery erodes intellectual labour and reinforces capit…
Capitalist Contradiction and the Spiritual Crisis
Feuerbach's great achievement is: (1) The proof that philosophy is
Kant in the USSR
Although prominent figures in Soviet philosophy, such as Valentin Asmus, criticized Kant for limiting his project to epistemology and treating contradiction solely as formal-logical, the primary critique within the Soviet tradition stemmed from a substance-materialist perspective, focusing on his oscillation between idealism and materialism and the resulting agnosticism. Evald Ilyenkov, however, bases his criticism of Kant on the latter’s rejecti…
Conspiracy theories, fetishism, and the spiritual crisis
Marx defines religion not as the source but the expression of human misery under capitalism, where individuals become automatons-personifications of capital. The critique of religion as critique of "God-capital," the substance-subject of capitalist society, forms the foundation of all criticism. Religion, in this view, takes not only Biblical but also contemporary forms, including conspiracy theories. These theories perversely grant significance …
On the Nature of Thought
Knowledge-Production, Digitalization and the Appropriation of Surplus-Knowledge
According to some commentators, the introduction of digital technologies into the sphere of knowledge-production and the consequent digitalization and computerization of this field have radically changed the nature of knowledge-producing activity and the produced knowledge. At the social level, such a change has allegedly caused the irrelevance of grand narratives and emergence of paralogies or the obsolescence of the labour theory of value, whic…
Interviews
The following text and the four questions below were sent via email to the authors and they were requested to answer all four or the
Foundations of Marxism and Ilyenkovian Contributions
Engels’ Dialectics of—Human Activity in—Nature
Several Marxist theorists criticize Engels for his supposed non-dialectical and non-philosophical conceptualization of "praxis," which, according to Lukacs, amounts to Engels' alleged misunderstanding of Kantian "thing-in-itself." I argue that such "criticisms" of Engels is based on a dualistic understanding of practical vs. theoretical. Contrary to the critiques' allegations, Engels provides an account of praxis/labour as a philosophical categor…
The Match of ‘Ideals’
The problem of ‘applicability’ of mathematics to modern physical sciences has been labeled as an ‘unreasonably effective’ and unexplainable ‘miracle’ by prominent physicists such as Eugene Wigner and Paul Dirac. Philosophers of science from contending traditions have also contributed to the debates at large. While some have tried to trivialize the problem, others, in particular those with a phenomenological orientation, have attempted to eliminat…
Scientific realism and the historical emergence of consciousness
In “Scientific Realism and the Issue of Variability in Behavior,” J. F. Arocha (2021) proposes a (hylo)-realist method of studying behaviour and consciousness. Arocha adopts the thesis that reality consists of concrete (determinate) things, is orderly and lawful, and that it has an emergent character. I propose that furthering the critical power of the realist position requires the adoption of the thesis that human societies also have emergent pr…
Generalizations, concepts, and pseudoconcepts
Barbara Held’s article (2020) challenges the “for/about prepositional divide” (p. 349), which is presumed by critical and Indigenous psychologies, at two empirical and epistemological levels. I argue that Held’s critique can be further strengthened empirically, with reference to Lev Vygotsky’s analysis of the relation between spontaneous and scientific concepts, and epistemologically, with reference to Evald Ilyenkov’s treatment of concepts in co…
Evald Ilyenkov's Marxian Critique of Epistemology and Education
Based on the concepts of “activity” and the “ideal,” Ilyenkov's critique of epistemology follows the Marxian conceptualization of knowledge as the product of the metabolic relation between human and social nature. Accordingly, one specificity of the human being is her “object-oriented activity,” which in essence means changing the world. Ilyenkov criticizes views that reduce knowledge to a system of propositions. This conceptualization of knowled…
Vygotsky and Ilyenkov on Language, the “Ideal” and the Constitution of Consciousness
In the German Ideology, elaborating on the unity of natural and human sciences as the “single science of history,” Marx states that “the whole ideology amounts either to a distorted conception of t
Hume’s theory of social constitution of the self
Hume distinguishes between the self of thought and imagination and the self of the passions. He is criticized for contradicting himself as he allegedly attributes fictitiousness to the self in book one of the Treatise but later reintroduces the self in books two and three. Hume?s account of the idea of the self, however, is not contradictory: he shows the impossibility of a pure associationist-empiricist account of the self. Instead, he proposes …
Activity, labour, and praxis
This article aims at analysing the relation between academic-scientific knowledge-production, scientific labour, and capital. Scientific knowledge-production is a specific form of activity, that is, the metabolic material exchange between human and the social environment, which is irreducible to forming a trans-historically universal Weltanschauung. Knowledge- production is always tool-mediated and the tools are historically determined. The limit…
Surplus-Population and the Political Economy of Fear
Fear, of which the fear of death is a variation, can be analysed in its relation to forms of societies. Pertaining to Marx's concept of 'surplus-population' and his analysis of the capitalist law of population, it is argued that the main source of anxiety and fear in capitalist society is the fear of life, which is expressed in the form of fear of the dead and of monsters. Capital posits the identity of every human individual through its law of p…
The historical possibility and necessity of (Ilyenkov’s) anti-innatism
An important aspect of Evald Ilyenkov’s theory of social mind is anti-innatism. Anti-innatism is not only the necessary logical outcome of Ilyenkov’s overall philosophical system and in particular of his anti-reductionism, but also it is a socio-historically possible and necessary consequence of the capitalist mode of production, which amounts to the formation of a gap between socially formed human knowledge and growth of the productive powers, o…
Evolving Concepts, Revolving Doors
The revolving door is a conceptual device. It was introduced to solve mainly technical problems such as the “chimney effect”; however, the scope of its application transcends the intentions of its inventor, Theophilius Van Kannel. The revolving door problematizes the relation between different segments of space. It fetishizes space by relativizing and, at same time, absolutizing the difference between inside and outside, and by determining the be…
Hume's Social Theory of Memory
Traditionally, Hume's account of memory is considered an individualist-atomic representational theory. However, textual evidence suggests that Hume's account is better seen as a first attempt to create a social theory of memory that considers social context, custom and habits, language, and logical structures as constitutive elements of memory
Consciousness as Objective Activity
Mental phenomena and consciousness can be located in sign and in language. Since these latter belong to the objective world of human interaction, consciousness emerges as a part of objectivity. A sign is the product of the interaction between consciousnesses. Thus, admitting the existence of the sign presumes the existence of action. Activity is a social phenomenon; thus, it is objective. It is the objectivization of human needs and desires as pr…
Evald Ilyenkov's Marxian Critique of Epistemology and Education
Based on the concepts of “activity” and the “ideal,” Ilyenkov's critique of epistemology follows the Marxian conceptualization of knowledge as the product of the metabolic relation between human and social nature. Accordingly, one specificity of the human being is her “object-oriented activity,” which in essence means changing the world. Ilyenkov criticizes views that reduce knowledge to a system of propositions. This conceptualization of knowled…
Consciousness as Objective Activity
Mental phenomena and consciousness can be located in sign and in language. Since these latter belong to the objective world of human interaction, consciousness emerges as a part of objectivity. A sign is the product of the interaction between consciousnesses. Thus, admitting the existence of the sign presumes the existence of action. Activity is a social phenomenon; thus, it is objective. It is the objectivization of human needs and desires as pr…
Activity, labour, and praxis
This article aims at analysing the relation between academic-scientific knowledge-production, scientific labour, and capital. Scientific knowledge-production is a specific form of activity, that is, the metabolic material exchange between human and the social environment, which is irreducible to forming a trans-historically universal Weltanschauung. Knowledge- production is always tool-mediated and the tools are historically determined. The limit…
Surplus-Population and the Political Economy of Fear
Fear, of which the fear of death is a variation, can be analysed in its relation to forms of societies. Pertaining to Marx's concept of 'surplus-population' and his analysis of the capitalist law of population, it is argued that the main source of anxiety and fear in capitalist society is the fear of life, which is expressed in the form of fear of the dead and of monsters. Capital posits the identity of every human individual through its law of p…
Vygotsky and Ilyenkov on Language, the “Ideal” and the Constitution of Consciousness
In the German Ideology, elaborating on the unity of natural and human sciences as the “single science of history,” Marx states that “the whole ideology amounts either to a distorted conception of t
Consciousness as Objective Activity
Mental phenomena and consciousness can be located in sign and in language. Since these latter belong to the objective world of human interaction, consciousness emerges as a part of objectivity. A sign is the product of the interaction between consciousnesses. Thus, admitting the existence of the sign presumes the existence of action. Activity is a social phenomenon; thus, it is objective. It is the objectivization of human needs and desires as pr…
Hume's Social Theory of Memory
Traditionally, Hume's account of memory is considered an individualist-atomic representational theory. However, textual evidence suggests that Hume's account is better seen as a first attempt to create a social theory of memory that considers social context, custom and habits, language, and logical structures as constitutive elements of memory
Evolving Concepts, Revolving Doors
The revolving door is a conceptual device. It was introduced to solve mainly technical problems such as the “chimney effect”; however, the scope of its application transcends the intentions of its inventor, Theophilius Van Kannel. The revolving door problematizes the relation between different segments of space. It fetishizes space by relativizing and, at same time, absolutizing the difference between inside and outside, and by determining the be…
The historical possibility and necessity of (Ilyenkov’s) anti-innatism
An important aspect of Evald Ilyenkov’s theory of social mind is anti-innatism. Anti-innatism is not only the necessary logical outcome of Ilyenkov’s overall philosophical system and in particular of his anti-reductionism, but also it is a socio-historically possible and necessary consequence of the capitalist mode of production, which amounts to the formation of a gap between socially formed human knowledge and growth of the productive powers, o…
Vygotsky and Ilyenkov on Language, the “Ideal” and the Constitution of Consciousness
In the German Ideology, elaborating on the unity of natural and human sciences as the “single science of history,” Marx states that “the whole ideology amounts either to a distorted conception of t
Hume’s theory of social constitution of the self
Hume distinguishes between the self of thought and imagination and the self of the passions. He is criticized for contradicting himself as he allegedly attributes fictitiousness to the self in book one of the Treatise but later reintroduces the self in books two and three. Hume?s account of the idea of the self, however, is not contradictory: he shows the impossibility of a pure associationist-empiricist account of the self. Instead, he proposes …
Activity, labour, and praxis
This article aims at analysing the relation between academic-scientific knowledge-production, scientific labour, and capital. Scientific knowledge-production is a specific form of activity, that is, the metabolic material exchange between human and the social environment, which is irreducible to forming a trans-historically universal Weltanschauung. Knowledge- production is always tool-mediated and the tools are historically determined. The limit…
Surplus-Population and the Political Economy of Fear
Fear, of which the fear of death is a variation, can be analysed in its relation to forms of societies. Pertaining to Marx's concept of 'surplus-population' and his analysis of the capitalist law of population, it is argued that the main source of anxiety and fear in capitalist society is the fear of life, which is expressed in the form of fear of the dead and of monsters. Capital posits the identity of every human individual through its law of p…
Generalizations, concepts, and pseudoconcepts
Barbara Held’s article (2020) challenges the “for/about prepositional divide” (p. 349), which is presumed by critical and Indigenous psychologies, at two empirical and epistemological levels. I argue that Held’s critique can be further strengthened empirically, with reference to Lev Vygotsky’s analysis of the relation between spontaneous and scientific concepts, and epistemologically, with reference to Evald Ilyenkov’s treatment of concepts in co…
Evald Ilyenkov's Marxian Critique of Epistemology and Education
Based on the concepts of “activity” and the “ideal,” Ilyenkov's critique of epistemology follows the Marxian conceptualization of knowledge as the product of the metabolic relation between human and social nature. Accordingly, one specificity of the human being is her “object-oriented activity,” which in essence means changing the world. Ilyenkov criticizes views that reduce knowledge to a system of propositions. This conceptualization of knowled…
The Match of ‘Ideals’
The problem of ‘applicability’ of mathematics to modern physical sciences has been labeled as an ‘unreasonably effective’ and unexplainable ‘miracle’ by prominent physicists such as Eugene Wigner and Paul Dirac. Philosophers of science from contending traditions have also contributed to the debates at large. While some have tried to trivialize the problem, others, in particular those with a phenomenological orientation, have attempted to eliminat…
Scientific realism and the historical emergence of consciousness
In “Scientific Realism and the Issue of Variability in Behavior,” J. F. Arocha (2021) proposes a (hylo)-realist method of studying behaviour and consciousness. Arocha adopts the thesis that reality consists of concrete (determinate) things, is orderly and lawful, and that it has an emergent character. I propose that furthering the critical power of the realist position requires the adoption of the thesis that human societies also have emergent pr…
Engels’ Dialectics of—Human Activity in—Nature
Several Marxist theorists criticize Engels for his supposed non-dialectical and non-philosophical conceptualization of "praxis," which, according to Lukacs, amounts to Engels' alleged misunderstanding of Kantian "thing-in-itself." I argue that such "criticisms" of Engels is based on a dualistic understanding of practical vs. theoretical. Contrary to the critiques' allegations, Engels provides an account of praxis/labour as a philosophical categor…
Interviews
The following text and the four questions below were sent via email to the authors and they were requested to answer all four or the
Foundations of Marxism and Ilyenkovian Contributions
On the Nature of Thought
Knowledge-Production, Digitalization and the Appropriation of Surplus-Knowledge
According to some commentators, the introduction of digital technologies into the sphere of knowledge-production and the consequent digitalization and computerization of this field have radically changed the nature of knowledge-producing activity and the produced knowledge. At the social level, such a change has allegedly caused the irrelevance of grand narratives and emergence of paralogies or the obsolescence of the labour theory of value, whic…
Capitalist Contradiction and the Spiritual Crisis
Feuerbach's great achievement is: (1) The proof that philosophy is
Kant in the USSR
Although prominent figures in Soviet philosophy, such as Valentin Asmus, criticized Kant for limiting his project to epistemology and treating contradiction solely as formal-logical, the primary critique within the Soviet tradition stemmed from a substance-materialist perspective, focusing on his oscillation between idealism and materialism and the resulting agnosticism. Evald Ilyenkov, however, bases his criticism of Kant on the latter’s rejecti…
Conspiracy theories, fetishism, and the spiritual crisis
Marx defines religion not as the source but the expression of human misery under capitalism, where individuals become automatons-personifications of capital. The critique of religion as critique of "God-capital," the substance-subject of capitalist society, forms the foundation of all criticism. Religion, in this view, takes not only Biblical but also contemporary forms, including conspiracy theories. These theories perversely grant significance …
Nature and scientific knowledge
Vygotsky on Method and the Education of the Children with Disabilities
Vygotsky’s approach to the problem of method in face of the crisis in psychology is actual today as was in his time and contributes to the debates concerning the formation of psychology as a mature science. Despite undergoing different stages of development, Vygotsky’s method and theory form a totality that facilitates understanding each of its stages as much as its different constituents. The thread that constitutes this unity in diversity is th…
Agency, Machine-thinking, and Fetishism
This paper critiques two dominant perspectives on agency within digital capitalism. Proponents of the cognitive capitalism thesis claim that cognitive labourers develop a novel, autonomous subjectivity that escapes capitalist control, potentially enabling a post-capitalist transformation. In contrast, Steinhoff (2021), drawing on Ramtin (1991), argues that the application of AI and digital machinery erodes intellectual labour and reinforces capit…
Epistemology (18 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Consciousness (5 works) · Economics (5 works)