International Ataturk Alatoo University
Social philosophy, PHD
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
PhD
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The PhD in Social Philosophy at ALA-TOO INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY examines core problems of socio-philosophical knowledge, the place of social philosophy within social science, and connections between social and natural reality. It analyzes society as an organizational form, universal laws of structure, functioning, and self-development, historiography of the twentieth century, Kyrgyzstan’s historical fate, modernization, and civilizational choices. The programme uses foreign and domestic social thought and research paradigms to address Kyrgyz society’s search for socio-cultural identity and effective systems of social organization.
Career Outcomes: Graduates pursue research, teaching, policy analysis, NGO work, international organizations, public administration, think tanks, and consultancy.
Social philosophy" is the study of the main problems constituting the subject of social philosophy:
the nature of socio-philosophical knowledge, its place, and role in the system of social science;
the way of social reality existence, its connection between social and natural;
the society as an organizational form of reproduction of sociality, analysis of the universal laws of its structure, functioning, and self-development;
the history of the event-based process of development and interaction of actual countries, peoples, and civilizations;
typological characteristics of the historical process, axiological dimensions of human history;
Historiosophy of the twentieth century, the historical fate of Kyrgyzstan, the problems of modernization, and the choice of current civilizational guidelines for development.
The study of this discipline is based on the experience of the development of foreign and domestic social thought, research paradigms of social philosophy. The results of "Social philosophy" research are of particular importance in the context of the crisis of the modern Kyrgyz community, which is looking for its own socio-cultural identity, seeking to create an effective system of social organization.
