Nugayev Rinat Magdievich (born on May 30, 1953), doctor of philosophy, full professor. A specialist in history & philosophy of physics, philosophy and sociology of science, epistemology, relativistic astrophysics (black holes’ physics).
On graduating (1970) Kazan gymnasium no 18 (10-year basic English course +3-year course of English literature) Nugayev joined the KSU (Kazan State University) physics department. His major university disciplines were Riemannian geometry and general relativity. On graduating the KSU with MA in physics Nugayev studied relativistic astrophysics at Moscow Institute of Space Research of Russian Academy of Science (Ya. B. Zel’dovich & I.D. Novikov research group; 1975-76).
After graduating from Kazan and Moscow Universities he gets his PhD in philosophy of physics at Lomonosov Moscow State University. He received his Dr .Sci. (philosophy) degree from the RAS (Russian Academy of Science) Institute of Philosophy, Moscow (1991).The theme of his ‘doktorskaya’ dissertation was “Reconstruction of Mature Theory Change”.
He published 12 monographs (3 in English by ‘Peter Lang’, ‘Bentham Science Publishers’ and ‘Minkowski Institute Press’). More than 50 Nugayev’s papers are published in the journals indexed by SCOPUS and WoS:
