I'd like to welcome Dr. Vishev to the Immortality Institute. Dr. Vishev has been thinking and writing about the prospect of physical immortality for most of his career. The Institute hopes to work with Vishev to learn more about his ideas on how to develop a successful immortalist philosophy.
VISHEV, Igor Vladimirovich (born 5.05.1933, Volsk, Saratov region), doctor of Philosophy, professor, member of the Humanities Academy, expert on philosophical anthropology and religion. In 1947 as a result of an accident (strong chemical burn of the face and the eyes with metallic potassium) he completely lost his eyesight. In 1958 he graduated from Faculty of philosophy of Moscow State University and went to work at the Chelyabinsk Polytechnical Institute. He worked as an assistant, a senior teacher (1964), a senior lecturer (1968) a professor of the Chair of philosophy (1989). In 1964 he protected his candidate dissertation entitled «Social and Moral Sense of the Ten Biblical Commandments», in 1990 on the basis of the collection of his scientific works he protected his doctor's dissertation in the form of a scientific report entitled «The Problem of Death and Immortality of Man: Formation, Evolution, Prospects of Solving». Dr Vishev's main scientific interest is the development of the concept of practical immortality of man, whose basic idea is the necessity and the possibility of achieving biological and social conditionality not limited by any species limit of individual life under an indispensable condition of preservation of optimum parameters of corporal and spiritual ability to live, i.e. solving the triple task of strengthening the person's health, preservation of his youth and achieving practical immortality. Dr Vishev traced the evolution of "mortality" materialism which acknowledged the inevitability of death, into immortality materialism which proved the reachability of real personal immortality, and the prospect of transition from mortality model of progress based on indispensable change of generations, to immortality model of progress which presupposes the elimination of the mechanism of generation changes as an indispensable factor bio-and sociogenesis and at the same time the continuing growth of mankind. He introduced the concept of "immortology" (science of immortality) as well as "homo immortalis" (man immortal) into scientific use. He published more than 200 scientific and methodical works, including 12 books and 5 publications in foreign languages. He took part in the 9th International Congress of Gerontologists(Kiev, 1972) and the XIX World Philosophical Congress (Moscow, 1993).
Dr Vishev is married with two children, three grandchildren, he is fond of skiing and skating, swimming, playing chess and many other games, solving crossword puzzles, gardening, the car driven by his son, works on a computer.
His basic works: Radical Prolongation of People's Lives. Sverdlovsk, 1988; The Problem of Personal Immortality. Novosibirsk, 1990; Immortality of Man. Is it reachable? Minsk, 1990; Problems of Immortality: Book 1: The Problem of Individual Immortality in the history of Russian Philosophical Thinking of XIX-XX Centuries. - Chelyabinsk, 1993; Homo Immortalis - Man Immortal. Chelyabinsk, 1999; The Problem of Immortality Man in Russian Philosophy: Persons and Ideas: Manual. In 2 parts. Chelyabinsk, 1999, 2000; On the Way to Practical Immortality. Ì., 2002.
Basic publications about I.V. Vishev: Yurchenko I. Is the Circle of Youth Closed? // Sovietskaya Russia, 1981, September, 30; Golovanov L. The Glove Has Been Thrown// Book review, 1990, November, 9; Fonotov M. Invitation to Immortality // The Chelyabinsk Worker, 1991, July, 6; Zhuravloyva S. Igor Vishev - a Bolshevik Who Believes in Immortality // The Chelyabinsk Worker, 1995, February, 25; Chistoserdova N. A Legend about Love // Vecherniy Chelyabinsk, 1999, April, 13; Korotkaya T. Immortality is Possible // Komsomolskaya Pravda, 2000, April, 21; Popov L. Can Man Live Forever? // the Urals Courier, 2001, March, 14; Popov L. Man Can and Must Become Free from Death // Aloye Pole, 2001, November (#8).