Vol 17, No 7-8 (2017)

The article is devoted to the study of intuitive specification of a hypothesis. Key philosophical concepts that define the intuitive specification of a hypothesis are analyzed. The focus of the research is on the study of the systemic status of intuitive cognition in the hypothesis, as well as on the typology of intuition within the framework of the development of a hypothetical method.

The article is devoted to the role of the university as a city-forming institution that produces cultural meanings that fill the physical space around the university. According to the authors of the article, universities can and should play an important role in the formation of a new type of city space. Samara case represents the group of educational leaders that have significant potential for actualizing the ideas of urban studies at least within one quarter. The article shows the city-forming impulse of universities of Kuibyshev/Samara since their appearance in the city during the revolutionary period, their strategic importance in wartime, and the colossal impact on the cultural life of the city and the humanitarian space of the Soviet urban intelligentsia of the 1960s, up to the modern process of “managerization” of universities, in connection with which the situation of searching for new forms of interaction between the university and the city is becoming increasingly essential. The authors propose the idea of creating a “University Quarter” in the central part of Samara and give some directions for the implementation of this brand in the socio-cultural dimension.

The article analyzes the main determinants of optimization of value orientations of modern student youth, which include determinants of global nature, determinants of the process of society transformation, determinants of socialization of the young generation, and determinants of everyday social practices. The study revealed four positions of the determinants of the optimization of social practices represented by the institute of education.

This article is devoted to the analysis of the essence of an upgrade of a person, and the influence of the development of various upgrading technologies on formation of new economic markets. Two main stages of development of personal upgrading technologies are identified. The first one is connected with the appearance of technologies for improvement of human health on the economic markets, the second one - with introduction of technologies connected with creation of qualitatively new abilities of a person. It should be noted that new technologies of an upgrade of a person create not only new opportunities, but also generate risks. The main aspects of discussing the introduction of technologies for improvement of a person are revealed.

In this article, the theory and practice of energoinformational medicine is used to explain and substantiate the comprehension of the condition of personal and social health as a result of following the common principles of the universe creation, and the comprehension of the diseases - as a result of breaking those principles.

The article considers fundamental paradigms of religious mind in relation to the progress of modern technology and ideas of transhumanism. The author analyzes the fundamental paradigms available for religious outlook concerning its relation to the technological progress. Also, the article deals with the classification these paradigms with eschatological expectations of Christianity in the sense of a linear conception of history.

This article is devoted to the role of narratives in creating new cities. Narratives help to model urban future through images, cultural codes and verbal forms. Collaboration of narratives forms values and social relations in new areas. Different types of narratives will be analyzed in the article as well as their influence on creating a new model of the city.

Categorization plays an important role in the everyday life of the ethnos, being the object of research of ethnophilosophy. Ethnophilosophy deals with the problem of categorization and the definition of patterns, which attribute the object “ethnic reality” to a certain category. Categorizing takes into account the objects that are grouped together and form the main category of “ethnic”. Inclusion of ethnophilosophical knowledge in culture involves the substantiation of its conceptual grounds, which is realized with the help of the ideas and principles of ethnology and philosophy; for example, the substantiation of the material status of ethnic experience and the objective principles of ethnic philosophizing, practical philosophy by reference to the principle of unity of the material and the ideal, the empirical and the theoretical. Based on the conceptual ideas of objectivism and primordialism, ethnophilosophy adheres to the position of the impossibility of the existence of a theory and constructs of ethnic consciousness in isolation from objective prior knowledge and its material foundations. Based on this assumption, the author connects the ethnic object, closest to the empirical and material ethnos in the hierarchy of the conceptual apparatus of ethnophilosophy, with the ideal, for example, ethnic image of the object or the ethnic as the most abstract of the concepts, including in its totality all the things, phenomena and constructs of the ethnos.