Bonifaty Mikhailovich Kedrov (Russian: Бонифа́тий Миха́йлович Ке́дров΄10 December::1903, Yaroslavl – 10 September 1985, Moscow) was a notable Soviet researcher, philosopher, logician, chemist and psychologist who was a specialist in the philosophy of dialectical materialism.

Son of the Bolshevik leader Mikhail Kedrov, he himself joined the Bolsheviks in 1918.

Kedrov had a Doctor of Philosophy degree and specialized in philosophical questions of the natural sciences. He was a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences since 1966, author of over one thousand publications.

Kedrov was (since 1963) member of the International Academy of the History of Science and a number of other ins*utions. Kedrov was one of the initiators and the first editor-in-chief of Problems of philosophy (Voprosy filosofii) a leading Soviet journal of philosophy, from 1947 to 1949.

Publications

• ΄΄The Science (1968) in *ociation with Alexander Spirkin

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