Dr. Fedor Korochkin

Office hours

By appointment and registration via email

Links

• Personal webpage and CV: https://korochkin.me
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/korochkin/

Research Areas 

• Philosophy of Education
• Moral Philosophy
• Political Philosophy

Experience

• 2025 - present: Research Associate at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
• 2025: Research Fellow at TU Dortmund University
• 2024: Visiting Scholar at Cornell University
• 2023: Research Fellow at Bielefeld University
• 2017-2022: Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor (Docent) at Herzen University
• 2015-2019: Senior Lecturer at the State University of Film and Television, Saint Petersburg
• 2011-2015: PhD in Philosophy (Candidate of Science) at Herzen University

Memberships and Affiliations

• Center for Independent Social Research, USA (Since 2024)
• The North American Association for Philosophy & Education, USA (Since 2023)
• The Philosophy of Education Society, USA (Since 2022)

Recent Events

Conferences

• European Seminars in Philosophy of Education (ESPE),  July 3-4, 2025, Utrecht.
  "Moral Responsibility and Teaching under Systemic Indoctrination," symposium presentation.
• Education and Social Critique - Critical Theory and Philosophy of Education in Dialogue, June 26-28, 2025, Eichstätt.
  "Teachers' Autonomy and the 'Politics of Loneliness' in Systemic Indoctrination,"
  presentation co-authored with Dr. Polina Vasineva.
• Education and the Future of the Future, Philosophy of Education Society, March 6-10, 2025, Baltimore, MD.
  "Systemic Indoctrination and the Politics of Loneliness in Non-Democratic Education,"
  presentation co-authored with Dr. Polina Vasineva.
• Information, Misinformation and Disinformation, Philosophy of Education Society, March 7-11, 2024, Salt Lake City, UT.
  presentation: "Education for Populism: Systemic Indoctrination and Close-Mindedness."
• North American Association for Philosophy and Education 2023 Annual Meeting, October 27-29, 2023,  Mundelein, IL.
  "Education for Populism: Indoctrination and Close-Mindedness in Russian Education," panel presentation.
• Democratic Education in Undemocratic Times, Philosophy of Education Society, March 3-6, 2024, Chicago, IL
  "Digital Education in Undemocratic Times: Four Romantic Ideals of Bildung Which We Need Today,"
  presentation co-authored with Dr. Polina Vasineva.

Invited Talks and Panels

• Education and 21st Century Authoritarianism, April 2, 2025, University of British Columbia, speak panel.
• Systemic Indoctrination: Lessons from the Decline of Democratic Education in Russia, January 14, 2025, Philosophy of Education Society, online special event.
• Rethinking Indoctrination, Haifa University, February 1, 2024, guest lecture.
• Orientation Strategies in Apparatgeist Era: Romantic Ideals of Bildung and Modern Education, July 19, 2022, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, guest lecture, with Polina Vasineva.

Selected Publications

• Korochkin, Fedor, and Polina Vasineva. “Systemic Indoctrination and the Politics of Loneliness in Non-Democratic Education.” Philosophy of Education 81, forthcoming.
• Korochkin, Fedor. “Education for Populism: Systemic Indoctrination and Closed-Mindedness.” Philosophy of Education 80, no. 1 (2024): 63–78. https://doi.org/10.47925/80.1.063.
• Korochkin, Fedor. “Systemic Indoctrination: Lessons from the Decline of Democratic Education in Russia.” Groundworks by PES, 2024. https://www.philosophyofeducation.org/GroundWorks.
• Korochkin, Fedor, and Polina Vasineva. “Orientation Strategies at the Apparatgeist Era: Distributed Cognition and Romantic Ideals of Education.” Wisdom 4, no. 3 (2022): 57–64. https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v4i3.795.
• Korochkin, Fedor. “Own and Alien in Urban Space of the Geomedia Era: Revisiting the Notion of Orientation in Philosophy” [in Russian]. Visual Anthropology-2019: University City: Life Space and Visual Environment (2020): 37–47. https://doi.org/10.34680/visant-2020-37-47.
• Korochkin, Fedor, and Roman Svetlov. “Plato and Hume: Towards the Structure of the Argument from Master and Slave through the Dialogue ‘Parmenides’” [in Russian]. Schole: Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition 14, no. 1 (2020): 257–266. https://doi.org/10.25205/1995-4328-2020-14-1-257-266.

Work in Progress

Korochkin, Fedor. “Systemic Indoctrination and Philosophical Education” [provisional title]. In Educating Philosophers: A Handbook of Best Practice, edited by Kenneth R. Westphal and Mark Addis. De Gruyter, forthcoming 2026-2027.