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The paper presents an attempt to consider two well-known approaches to the problem of individuation of referents for natural kinds terms. Traditional semantic theory tries to solve this task by interpreting the descriptive content of a name as the criterion of individuation for referents of natural kinds terms. In contrast, the proponents of the direct reference theory solve this problem by appealing to the concept of essential property which belongs to each member of class constituting the class of referents of the term. Each of these approaches has its problems, the main of which consists in the ambiguity of the notion "natural kind". Traditional semantic theory extends the notion of the nominal kind onto the natural kind, whereas the theory of direct reference extends the notion of the natural kind onto the nominal kinds. The author concludes by proposing to take the notion of "kind" as basic for the theory of individuation for referents of natural kinds terms. In this case, we can solve the problem of distinguishing between natural and nominal kinds.

The author is challenging the traditional Marxist view that dialectics is opposed to metaphysics. He argues that relativism but not dialectics is the doctrine opposite to metaphysics. Metaphysics, according to him, accepts the difference of oppositions only, relativism accepts one

To determine the place of the concept to apeiron in the context of Anaximander

The philosophy of the sophists Thrasymachus and Callicles is viewed as a logical result of the sophistic attitude to the state and its laws in connection with the crisis of polis values.

The article is a critical review of debates about some interrelated problems of Aristotle

The article focuses on the status of the body in the philosophical system of Dionysius the Areopagite. This problem cannot be solved if one does not use the neoplatonic answers to this question. The author believes that the position of Dionysius is very similar to the conclusions of Plotinus and Proclus. However, Areopagite underlines the theses which change the typical neoplatonic view making it closer to the position of the Fathers of the Church.

Francis Bacon

The main ideas of this paper are to demonstrate and analyze the specific nature of the reception of Kant

This paper focuses on the problems of an edition of the original text of Hegel

The article presents Hegel

The paper deals with the problem of defining the "moral point of view" focusing on the role of rational deliberation in moral decision making. Special attention is paid to the nature and limitations of epistemic rationality in making moral choices and the notion of impartiality. The author challenges the idea of a "morally-free zone" and argues for alternative ways of reconciling the normative force of moral judgments and the individual limitations of the moral agent.

The article offers an analysis of the specific nature of the globalization processes in international science as they relate to the Russian research community. Based on the materials of sociological monitoring of the Novosibirsk science center of 1996-2004 comparative analysis was made which reveals the global patterns of the development of science and preparedness of Russian scientists for participation in international scientific collaboration. It is established that the momentum of integration of the Russian research community into global science will increase.

The market economic environment specifies the new role of law, particularly of the part regulating economic relations. The Constitution of the Russian Federation consolidated the results of the bourgeois-democratic revolution (1991

The Labour code of the Russian Federation adopted in 2001, as any new codified act, contains new rules regulating labour relations. In his article the author considers the main new legal rules of the Code, which are not totally clear, generate problems of a legal nature and should be further improved by the federal legislator.

The article is devoted to a comprehensive study of participation of the Russian Federation, the subjects of the Russian Federation and municipal formations in civil legal relations. The author provides a detailed analysis of domestic legislation on delimitation of public ownership, proposes the ways to solve many problems resulting from participation of the Russian Federation, the subjects of the Russian Federation and municipal formations in civil legal relations.