Oleg Khoma


Oleg Khoma is a Ukrainian translator and historian of European philosophy. His research focus is on 17th- and 20th-century French philosophy, particularly Blaise Pascal, René Descartes and Nicolas Malebranche.

Biography

Born in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, Khoma graduated with honors from the Faculty of Philosophy at the Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University in 1990, and defended his PhD thesis at the same university in 1993, under the supervision of Professor Hanna Horak. Since 1990, he has taught Philosophy at the Vinnytsia National Technical University. He defended his habilitation thesis at the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, under the supervision of Professor Oleg Bilyi.
In 2000, Khoma founded Sententiae, the first Ukrainian academic journal specialising in the history of philosophy, of which he remains the editor-in-chief. In 2015, Sententiae became the first Ukrainian philosophical journal indexed by SCOPUS.
Khoma is also a member of the editorial boards of the scientific journals Filosofska dumka, and Visnyk of Vinnitsya Technical Institute.
In 2003 he received the title of Professor, and since 2004 he has been the chair of the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at Vinnytsia National Technical University. Since 2000 he has taught as a visiting professor at other Ukrainian universities, including the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University. He is the founder and chairman of the Pascal Society, affiliated with the Ukrainian Philosophical Fund, and director of the Renatus Centre for Studies in History of Philosophy.
Khoma also participates in the Ukrainian branch of the international project European Dictionary of Philosophies: A Vocabulary of Untranslatabilities, and is editor-in-chief of its "Epistemology" section.
Khoma's main areas of academic research are scholasticism, European philosophy of the 17th and 20th centuries, contemporary French philosophy, Philosophical Untranslatabilities, and Ukrainian philosophical terminology.

Awards and grants

In 2001, Khoma was awarded the "Skovoroda" Programme for Support for publishing, carried out by the French Embassy and the French Institute in Ukraine, for the translation and publication of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's treatise The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right.
In 2011 he received a special award from the Ukrainian Philosophical Foundation for Promotion of philosophical commentary.
In 2015 he was again awarded the "Skovoroda Prize", for the edition Descartes's "Meditations" in the light of modern interpretations.
In 1998, 2004, and 2009 he received a grant from the Centre national du livre for his translations and studies in France.

Main publications

Books

  • Comments and notes on Pascal's "Pensées"
  • Comments notes and bibliographic materials to S. Pinckaers "Sources of Christian morality"
  • Descartes's "Meditations" in the light of modern interpretations: Jean-Marie Beyssade, Jean-Luc Marion, Kim Sang Ong-Van-Cung

Articles

  • Living God and theodicy
  • The problem of evidence in Cartesianism
  • Nietzsche and Schizoanalysis
  • Myths about Pascal: the Problem of the Directions’ Variety in XVII century Philosophy
  • J.-J. Rousseau's Treatise on the Social Contract
  • Pascal's Texts: the type of the narrative instance, the status of Truth, the topic of nuance
  • François Poullain de la Barre and Modern Philosophy
  • Modern heritage of the contemporary tolerance
  • Alain Touraine and the resuscitation of philosophy
  • Justification of the new French translation of Cartesian «Meditationes»: Ukrainian parallels
  • Leibniz’ Terminology as a living Mirror of Ukrainian philosophical terminology
  • Cartesian topics in the work of Pascal: Modern Pascal's Studies and stereotypes
  • Pensées and Hermeneutics : philosophical significance of the new Pascal's apologetics
  • Descartes and Pascal : the way to philosophy on the background of the Grand Siècle

Translations and commentaries