About Maxim Demin
I am a research fellow at Ruhr University Bochum (Germany). My primary field of interest is post-Hegelian philosophy and its intellectual development in German-speaking countries during the nineteenth century. Before moving to Bochum, I worked for nearly a decade at the National Research University – Higher School of Economics (HSE) in St. Petersburg and Moscow, where I taught courses in critical thinking, philosophy of science, metaethics, and moral psychology. I am currently working on the philosophical and public debates surrounding the emergence of studies of human and animal psychology and mental phenomena. My project examines the transfer of psychological studies from the early nineteenth century in the Russian Empire to the early years of the Soviet regime.
