Leonid Stolovich

Leonid Naumovich Stolovich (Russian: Леони́д Нау́мович Столович; Estonian: Leonid Stolovitš; July 22, 1929, in Leningrad – November 4, 2013, in Tartu) was a Russian-Estonian philosopher, Doctor of Philosophy (1966) and professor (1967).

[1] Stolovich graduated from the Leningrad University in 1952, from 1953 on he worked at Tartu University, Estonia, from 1994 on as a professor emeritus.

He is the author of more than forty books and 400 publications in 20 languages.

During the Perestroika era, Stolovich took part in the pro-democracy movement (Popular Front of Estonia).

Stolovich’s work “Pluralism in the Philosophy…” decovers 'systematic pluralism', a term coined by Stolovich, which means the unity of dialectical opposites pluralism and monism.