Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1819-7671 (Print)
ISSN 2542-1948 (Online)


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Critics of Language: Destruction of Symbolical Nature of Music

In article is submitted the critical sight to symbolical nature of the musical art, being by a condition of definition of music as disinterested, symbolical, pointless and also signless space.

J.R. Searle’s Chinese Room in the Problem Context of the Philosophy of AI

This article is related to the key moment of philosophy of AI by statement of a correlation problem between syntax and semantics. Author analyzes J.R. Searle’s mental experiment called Chinese Room, which denies any opportunity of the “strong AI” creation. The history of this question is retraced, since Turing test till its S. Harnad interpretation. The author suggests express ideas on elimination of J.R. Searle’s argument.

Replication of Consumer Socio-Cultural Practices in the Contemporary Society

The article is devoted to the research of consumerism as sociocultural practice. It is shown that consumerism has a feature of autoreplication. Consumer ethic tends to homogenise socio-cultural practices of contemporary men, which leads to the identity crisis and sufficient change of their subjectivity

The Social Functions of Intellectual Elites

Intellectual elites (intellectuals) are essential element of the social life making certain social functions: function of innovation; function of critics and selection of cultural resources; function of saving of tradition. The reproduction of the existing samples of behavior is an important mechanism of social development, the multiplication of those gives the pledge of the viability of the society. The mechanism of circulation of the intellectual elites is a reproduction through the system of post-graduated school.

Freedom of Human Being in Russian Religious Philosophy

The article is devoted to the principle of freedom as the guiding principle of Russian religious philosophy.

Education, Upbringing and Socialization: Resemblance and Differences of the Notions

The article is devoted to theorizing notions, meaningful for creation of the optimal model of the youth socialization in the transitive period of the Russian society. The resemblance and differences of the process, aimed at the human development, are substantiated and the

The Force and Power of Technology: Too Much or Not Enough?

This article dwells upon a question of power and force aspects of technology as far as the existence of human is concerned. Problematization of the point of connection of equipment and human life will help research neither the political nor the institutional but the existential
meaning of power.

The Problem of Estimate in Philosophy and Science in XX Century

The subject of analytical research in this article (problem of estimate) in philosophy in XX century appears indissolubly connected with category «value» (the basic criterion at removal of estimated judgments). In estimate as in phenomenon the unity of value and the
personal sense, world social and individual values reveals. By means of estimation acts the knowledge, representation consciousness of essence of values (as things) valuable life is carried out. An estimation ? one of the ways of actualization of value actually. Estimation is

The Notion «Historicism» in the Husserl’s Phenomenology

Historicism as notion has two variants formulated by E. Husserl and K. Popper. Husserl opposed this notion to the eternal ideal of scientific philosophy, Popper opposed it to the «our» epoch knowledge. The overcoming of historicism Husserl sees in the «spiritual motivations» comprehension of mankind development in the «monadic unity of consciousness».

Symbolization of the Spirit. Faces and Marriage

The article explaines the interrelationship between the process of spirit sybolization and the formation of social institutes. Psychological mechanism of relation transformation from biological forms to the social ones, from dominant forms to moral forms, that appeal to the ideal, is investigated in this article. The psychology of initial transfer, lead to grupped I formation as the based symbol of spirit, is considered.

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