Merab Mamardashvili (1930-1990) was a Georgian philosopher, Doctor of Sciences, Professor. He was born in Gori (Eastern Georgia). In 1955 he graduated from the Moscow State University. In 1955-1987 he was Scientific Worker of the Moscow Institute of Philosophy. In 1987-1990 Mamardashvili was head of the Department of the Institute of Philosophy of the Georgian Academy of Sciences.

In May 2001 a monument to him was unveiled in Tbilisi by Eduard Shevardnadze.

Some main works of Merab Mamardashvili

  • Forms and Contents of Thinking (1968)
  • The Problem of Objective Method in Psychology (1977)
  • Classic and Non-classic Ideals of Rationality (1984)
  • Phenomenology and its Role in Contemporary Philosophy (1988)
  • Conscious and the Philosophical Calling (1988)
  • Cartesian Thoughts (1999)

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