The Department of dialectical and historical materialism was聽肠谤别补迟别诲听in 1957 at the 91视频, in 1967 the department was renamed as the Department of Philosophy. In Soviet time department developed the principles of ideological direction regarding teaching of the academic courses in the technical university and carried out several publications concerning this topic.
In spite of an ideological burden, sufficiently wide range of philosophical disciplines has been taught on the department and also there was Students鈥 Philosophical Club. The department noticeably changed the direction of its activity after the formation of the Ukrainian Independent State.
Original philosophical courses were created at the initial stage of the department鈥檚 operating. Such courses provided free student鈥檚 choice concerning both -groups, where they had to listen to the philosophical lectures and orientation of the philosophical course.
For the first time in Ukraine, department has developed project聽芦Philosophy of science and technology禄聽for the master鈥檚 level training. Associate Professor Petrushenko V. L. reported about project鈥檚 special features and content at the
Research and Practice Seminar of the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science 聽in Kharkiv in 1996. Postgraduate study majoring in 芦dialectics and methodology of cognition禄 has been established on the department in 2002.
Since 2017 鈥 Head of the Chair of Philosophy is Doctor of Sciences in Philosophy, Associate Professor Ihor Karivets. In the Chair of Philosophy there are three Doctors of Sciences in Philosophy, two Professors, nine Associate Professors, one Senior Lecturer, and one Assistant.
Since 2002 teachers of the department have created and published 11 educative handbooks (one of them has been certified as textbook), 8 on them have been approved by Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
In 2015 the Chair of Philosophy with the cooperation of the Chair of Political Sciences and International Relations established the scientific journal 鈥淗umanitarian Vision鈥. Also the journal 鈥淧hilosophical Researches鈥 is annually published.聽 The new scientific topic of research is 鈥淎 Human Dimensions of Contemporary Socio-Cultural Process: Global and Local Context鈥 (2017-2020). 袣邪褎械写褉邪谢褜薪邪 薪邪褍泻芯胁邪 褌械屑邪 "袥褞写褋褜泻褨 胁懈屑褨褉懈 褋褍褔邪褋薪芯谐芯 褋芯褑褨芯泻褍谢褜褌褍褉薪芯谐芯 锌褉芯褑械褋褍: 谐谢芯斜邪谢褜薪懈泄 褌邪 谢芯泻邪谢褜薪懈泄 泻芯薪褌械泻褋褌" (2017-2020). State registration number 0117U004468.