Salahaddin Khalilov (Səlahəddin Sədrəddun oğlu Xəlilov is an Azerbaijani Philosopher.
Scientific-pedagogical activity
He defended his PhD 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 the University “Azerbaijan” — a private university in Azerbaijan in 1991 and was its rector up to 2006. Since 1994 he has been leading the Research Center “East and West”. Prof. S. Khalilov established the international socio-political journal “Ipek Yolu” in 1997 and was its Editor-in-Chief up to 2005. In 2002 he was elected as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Azerbaijan Association of Philosophy and Socio-Political Sciences. From 2003 he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal “Felsefe ve Sosial-siyasi Elmler”. Since 2006 he is 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 of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. From 2009 he is the Chairman of Scientific Council of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan on Philosophy, Political and Social Sciences. Prof. Khalilov’s investigations are mainly focused on Philosophy of Science, Philosophical Comparativism, Phenomenology, Philosophical Aspects of Eastern and Western Civilizations, Philosophy of Abu Turkhan, Cognitive Theory.
Social and educational activity
S.Khalilov founded and was the first leader of 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 further in 1988 he was elected as the Chairman of Young Humanity Scientists of Azerbaijan. From 1997 he is the Chairman of Prize Committee named after Bahmaniar Prof. S.Khalilov was the Member of the Parliament of Azerbaijan and Deputy-Chairman of the “Science and Education” Permanent Commission of the Parliament during 2000-2005.
Selected publications
Osnovaniya nauchno-technicheskogo progressa. Logiko-metodologicheskiy analiz. “Rossiskaya Ekologicheskaya Akademiya”, Ekonomika i informatika. Moskva 1997.
Peculiarities of Education in the East and West. XIIth Triennial Conference, Touchstones for a Modern University Culture, Brussels, 11–14 July 1999.
The structure of knowledge: about a process of formation of the hierarchic. Proceedings of the Metaphysics for the Third Millennium Conference. September 5–8, 2000, Rome. Vol.2, pp. 89–93.
Problems of Education in the Post-Soviet Era. Alliance of Universities for Democracy. Perspectives in Higher Education Reform. Budapest, Volume 9, 2000, pp. 121–124.
Civilization, Religion, and Terror. Proceedings of the Alliance of Universities for Democracy.// Perspectives in Higher Education Reform. Volume 12, Bucharest, November 2002, pp. 227–231.
The unity of diversity as the basic principle of the western model of social organization. Proceedings of the Second world Conference: Metaphysics 2003. July 2–5, 2003, Rome. Vol.1, pp. 218–222.
Sherg ve Gerb: umumbesheri ideala dogru. Baki 2004.
East and West as social models. Global Studies Encyclopedia."Dialog Raduga Publishers", Moscow 2003, p. 116. and in Global Studies Encyclopedia. Prometheus Books, N-Y. 2005.
Al-Suhrawardi’s Doctrine and Phenomenology. Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology on the Perennial Issue of Microcosm and Macrocosm. Dordrecht, Springer, 2006, pp. 263–276. ; )
Peculiarities of Education in the East and West. Proceedings of the XXIst World Congress of Philosophy: August 10–17, 2003, Istanbul, Turkey. In Volume 4. Philosophy of Education. Ankara, 2006, pp. 73–77. ; )
Soul and Body in the Phenomenological Context. Phenomenology of Life – From the Animal Soul to the Human Mind Book II. The Human Soul in the Creative Transformation of the Mind. Series: Analecta Husserliana, Vol. 94 Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa, 2006, pp. 189–200. ; )
Felsefe: tarix ve muasirlik. Baki 2006.
Doğu-Batı: Ortak Bir Ideale Doğru. “Mefkure yayınları”, İstanbul, 2006..
Doğu ́dan Batı ́ya Felsefe Körpüsü. “Ötüken”, İstanbul 2008..
Lyubov i intellekt. Моskva, “Маsка”, 2009..
Romanticheskaya poeziya v kontekste vostochno-zapadnoy problematiki. Moskva. “Ves Mir”, 2009..
Romantik şiirde Doğu-Batı meseleleri. “Ötüken”, İstanbul 2009..
About the correlation of the memory and remembrance in the structure of the soul. Analecta Husserliana. v. CI. // Memory in the ontopoiesis of life. Springer, 2009. pp. 243–252.
Sivilizasiyalarin dialoqu. Baki 2009.
Elm adamlari elm haqqinda. Baki 2010.
Elmshunasligin esaslari. Baki 2010.
Elm haqqında elm. Bakı, 2011.
Əbu Turxanın hikmət dünyası. Bakı, 2012.
Книга афоризмов. Избранное из избранных., Moskva: «Alfa-M», 2012.
Phenomenology of Life or Life of Idea. Baku, “Azerbaijan University” Press, 2012.
