Salahaddin Khalilov


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