Phenomenology: Retrospective and Prospective Approaches
Submitted by Гость (not verified) on Wed, 09/04/2024 - 23:54The article outlines ways to determine the theoretical preconditions for the formation of phenomenological philosophy and provides some examples of the practical application of the phenomenological method in current social and human studies. The specificity of the approach implemented in the article is that the authors deliberately refuse to consider the primary sources of phenomenology (Kant, Brentano, etc.) and turn to the primary sources of this doctrine in ancient philosophy.
Realism and Knowledge First. Interview with Timothy Williamson
Submitted by Гость (not verified) on Wed, 09/04/2024 - 23:54The renowned British philosopher Timothy Williamson talks about his philosophical views and main lines of research. Williamson is a metaphysical realist in a broad sense. Fir him there are true or false answers to questions about all aspects of reality. Classical logic is a universal true theory. Knowledge-first epistemology is an alternative to the traditional belief-first epistemology. The former takes the concept of knowledge as a basic concept, explaining other epistemic concepts, including belief, in its terms, whereas the latter does the opposite.
What Is City?
Submitted by Гость (not verified) on Wed, 09/04/2024 - 23:54The object of this paperis the city as a specific form of territorial organization of society. The task is to identify the main characteristics that determine the modern city as a specific phenomenon. The historical variability of ideas about the city associated with the historical development of the phenomenon of the city and society as a whole is demonstrated. The relativity of the distinction between the city and the non-city in modern society and the problematic definition of clear boundaries of the city are shown.
INSTITUTIONAL AND SOCIO-CULTURAL FACTORS OF POST-SOCIALIST TRANSFORMATIONS
Submitted by Гость (not verified) on Wed, 09/04/2024 - 23:54The paper studies the logic of the development of the theory of post-socialist transit under the influence of the practice of transformations in various countries of the former «socialist camp», which showed the need for a more differentiated doctrine of analysis. It also treats the problem of the correlation of institutional and sociocultural transformation factors.
OPPORTUNITIES AND RISKS OF TECHNOLOGICAL ENHANCEMENT OF THE MONITORING SYSTEM OF INTER-ETHNIC AND INTER-CONFESSIONAL RELATIONS AND EARLY PREVENTION OF CONFLICT SITUATIONS
Submitted by Гость (not verified) on Wed, 09/04/2024 - 23:54The paper considers the risks of implementation of the technocratic model of national policy for local and regional communities. Two groups of socio-cultural determinants that govern the emergence of projects for technological enhancement of the monitoring system of the interethnic relations are highlighted: sociotechnical and managerial fictions.
Laws: historical transformation, modern understanding, classification
Submitted by Гость (not verified) on Wed, 09/04/2024 - 23:54The article considers the historical transformations of the law, and argues that many contemporary scientists are wrong to ignore it. The paper criticizes the approach to the status of laws, which is determined by the degree of their compliance with the criteria of objectivity and rationality. Instead, a classification is constructed that includes the laws of logic and mathematics, natural sciences, technology, as well as social and legal. To consider the processes of unfolding laws in the evolution of reality, the concept of nomogenesis is used.
SUBSTANTIAL STUDY FIELD PROBLEMS IN THE WORKS QUALITATIVE E. SCHRÖDINGER
Submitted by Гость (not verified) on Wed, 09/04/2024 - 23:54In article the research E. Schrödinger a question of consciousness and perception is considered. Despite the fact that E. Schrödinger in his philosophical investigations did not use the term «qualia», part of his work is devoted to the specifics of quality-perception. Sharing the mechanical process of perception, which is beyond description in a physical discourse, and how experienced the result of this process, it is close to the wording of «the difficult question of consciousness» - «why processes do not go in the dark?».
The Controversy with Immanuel Wallerstein: the Industrial Revolution and Globalization as the Great Turning Points of Modern Times
Submitted by Гость (not verified) on Wed, 09/04/2024 - 23:54Wallerstein states that the only social revolution, or the «great turning point» of Modern Times, is the formation of the European capitalist world–economy during the «long» XVI century. Contrary to this, the author argues that two more great fractures can be distinguished in the history of Modern Times. The first of them was the industrial revolution of the XIX century, when three processes coincided, provoked by the invention of the steam engine – the mechanization of factory production, the energy revolution and the change of logistics.
THE PHENOMEN OF OTHER-ETHNOCULTURAL NEOTRADITIONALISM
Submitted by Гость (not verified) on Wed, 09/04/2024 - 23:54The concept of «other-ethnocultural neotraditionalism», which implies the reproduction of ethno-cultural traditions and behavioral practices in a different cultural and geographical space is introduced.