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This paper explores the relationship between epistemic and instrumental rationality in the methodology of science. Instrumental rationality concerns the means and ends of an action, epistemic rationality deals with the normativity of the rules of inference.
There are many attempts to describe epistemic rationality as merely a kind of instrumental, as an instrumental rationality in service of cognitive or epistemic goals. The paper explores the instrumentalist conception of epistemic rationality, its philosophical importance, its plausibility and defensibility. The arguments of the proponents of the instrumentalist conception are compared to the attempts to naturalize moral judgments in philosophical ethics.

The philosophy of the sophist Antiphon is viewed as manifestation of a nihilistic attitude to the state and its laws in connection with the deepening crisis of polis values at the end of V century B.C.

The paper is a review of debates of the time. When Hilary Putnam had worked out his functionalist solution to the mind-body problem, he discovered that it was only a more precise version of Aristotle

Hippolytus has long been considered an early Christian martyr, bishop of Rome, even an anti-pope, and a prolific writer, who left to the posterity a large corpus of writings of various nature. Some of these writings are now extant in their entirety or in a fragmented form; others have recently been recovered or identified as Hippolytan. It is clear, however, that the state of affairs is hardly that simple and is poorly supported by the sources. As a result, a number of authorship and provenance hypotheses have been introduced to solve the problem. Who was Hippolytus and in which early Christian community did he flourish? The paper comments upon and responds to the recent advances to the problem, as outlined in Cerrato J.A. Hippolytus between East and West. The Commentaries and the Provenance of the Corpus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

The article examines the possibility of self-consciousness for three main types of the subjects in Plotinus

The authors analyze the ontological foundations of Hegel

The main ideas of this article are, first, to demonstrate the developing crisis and historical themes in Husserl

Taking as examples two social institutions

The problem of the meaning of history is one of the main deep troubles in the Western (including Russian) philosophical tradition. There are two principal approaches to the problem: nihilistic approaches (history has no meaning, people just prescribe meanings to history

The article is a critical analysis of minimalist interpretations of the notion of moral obligation. The author considers various arguments for minimal morality as well as major attempts to expand the notion of moral obligation by reconsidering the status of general and positive obligations. Special attention is paid to the notion of

The article is a reflection on several aspects of the constructivist understanding of the concepts

Economic culture is viewed as a component and derivative of a wider notion

The article provides the results of the analysis of the life, work and the social and psychological state of regional research communities. The study is based on sociological polls conducted in a number of Siberian regions. An important part of this analysis is an assessment of structural transformations of academic and university units at the local level, the degree of adaptation of scientists, and the state of reproductive mechanisms of science.

The article offers the results of social and philosophic analysis of the choice to become a scientist in present-day Russia. The main social determinants are considered to be interrelations of three factors: the value orientation of the person, interest in a certain type of activity on the part of the society and the state. The empirical foundation is provided by the results of the sociological studies of the research community of the Novosibirsk Academic town conducted in 2000 and 2003.

The author considers topical problems mainly related to the legal outlook and the character of present-day Russian reality. The analysis concerns the role and place of the world outlook in the formation of the legal system of the society. Special emphasis is given to the correlation of rational and irrational forms of the legal outlook.

Legal service and legal assistance are notions that express legal phenomena which differ in the content and subject of their realization. They exist in juridical relations which are different due to the differences between juridical branches.

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The author analyses legal and economic aspects of the concept of property in relation to natural resources. It is shown that the interpretation of this concept in jurisprudence loses sight of the very sources of income, including natural rent. However, by its very essence, the latter is a public good belonging, on equal terms, to all members of society. The author underlines the importance of the transition to the rent principle of taxation which should be complemented by the principle of common property of the citizens of Russia to natural resources (property of the whole people). It is proposed to single out common joint ownership and common share (civil) types of property. This should allow making optimal use of natural rent which would be used for Russia