09.00.00 Philosophic sciences
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Description
The article gives the analysis of the different points of view on the criterion of living
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PARADIGM IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE GENERAL THEORY OF CYCLES (CRISES)
DescriptionThe article considers the special role of paradigms in the study (writing) of the General theory of cycles. The authors ' task is systematization of knowledge in this area and obtain an objective assessment by means of retrospective material, which shows the change of one paradigm to another
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SPORT AS A SOCIO-CULTURAL FACTOR OF MODERNIZATION OF THE RUSSIAN SOCIETY
DescriptionSport is represented as one of the factors of modernization processes to stimulate both an individual’s creativity and Russian society
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THE PHENOMENON OF CULTURAL SELF-IDENTITY IN A HISTORICAL CONTEXT
DescriptionThe article deals with the issues of formation and development of cultural self-identity under the influence of the cultural and historical dynamics. Careful attention is paid to the description of continuous formation of the elements of self-identity on the back of the changing time perception
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EVOLUTIONARY THEORY: THE SEARCH FOR NEW PARADIGMS
DescriptionThe article is devoted to the study of contemporary models of evolution based on new scientific discoveries. Integrative and systems approaches in the study of evolution that take into account deficiencies of “modern evolutionary synthesis” are systemized. Work also considers the directions and interdisciplinary perspectives of development of the “new evolutional synthesis”
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TO THE QUESTION OF THE NATURE OF THE SCIENCE-INNOVATIONS-PRODUCTION SYSTEM
DescriptionIn this article in the light of a common social and philosophical traditions we present two trends, that define connection between science and material production: a trend of dependence of the science development from needs of production, and a trend of increasingly growing reverse impact of science on material production (along with engineering, technology, innovation). This article analyzes not only the individual elements of the "science-innovationsproduction", but also focuses on the study of the interaction and the relationship between its elements
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TO THE QUESTION OF THE DEFINITION OF THE MODERN SCIENCE TERM
DescriptionThe article analyzes the concept and the specific of science, discusses some patterns of functioning, integration and differentiation of modern science. We consider the difference of science and knowledge, nonexistence of sharp distinctions between the terms “science”, “innovation” and “engineering”
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THE ROLE OF RELIGION AS A FORM OF SPIRITUAL CULTURE IN HUMAN LIFE
DescriptionThe article discusses the role of religion as a form of spiritual culture in the context of everyday life. Cultural and religious function of religion reveals the relation of religion to spiritual cultural in aspect of the symbolic codes of everyday life. Under the spiritual culture we understand a set of positive achievements of mankind in intellectual and emotional spheres, in achieving awareness and understanding between people of different faiths
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LINGUISTIC DETERMINISM, CUMULATIVE EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
DescriptionThe main purpose of this study is to examine how language and its historically inherited content and structure allows accumulating knowledge and determines the development of the individuals, culture and science. The article shows the theoretical drawbacks of modern "pragmatic turn" in which language is depicted only as a derivate of natural, cultural and cognitive systems. Instead, it is stated that language, in addition to all of the above, have to be considered also as a relatively independent basis and one of the causes that determine individual and social development. For that reason, the study examines the system nature of language, thought and culture, their environmental and social "embeddiness", a close relationship with other sign systems and with various forms of social activities. From that point, theoretical reduction of multiple relations and varying causes in complex ecological and social systems only to bilateral relations of language-thought, language-culture are revised. Particular attention is paid to the role of language in the accumulation and systematization of scientific knowledge and the transmission of cultural traditions. In that context, language is seen as part of the non-genetic inheritance systems, "social a priori" that determines the content and creates conditions for cumulative social evolution. Therefore, it is maintained that the comprehensive studies of language and its significance for culture and science have to embrace within a systems approach both the linguistic and pragmatic "turns"
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ORIGIN, EVOLUTION AND DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION IN NATURE
DescriptionThe article considers current trends and unsolved problems in studies of the origin and evolution of communication in nature. Distinctive features of natural language, its biological, cognitive and sociocultural foundations are revised from the perspectives of new findings in this field. The article also investigates the main characteristics of primal and basic forms of "communication" (e.g. in bacteria and plants). It is argued that to them are more applicable non-representational models of communication, because they are not based on the representation of meanings or the processes of cognition and interpretation. On the example of the acoustic signals of birds and primates it is shown that they have such linguistic features as referentiality, plasticity and sociocultural heritability. Discovery of the faculty, for instance in some species of birds, for a "semantically compositional communication" ("semantic compositionality"), reveals also the presence of the "protosyntax" in animal communication. Considered studies enable to bring together features of communication in nature and natural language and to see the evolution of communication as the more gradualistic process than previously thought. Nevertheless, it is emphasized that there is a need for the development in the modern studies the socio-cultural approaches to communication that take into account the non-genetic inheritance system and the cumulative nature of culture