No 4 (2008)

The subject of authors consideration is modern information and communication technology, their cultural and historical foundation and precondition of their dominant model, as well as possible and in fact the real impact (positive and negative) of their deployment in the local as well as global socio measurement; author gives special attention to analysis and evaluation of characteristics of ratio of information and communications technologies and value-humanist traditions, experiencing symptoms of the crisis in the space of virtual reality.

The basic types of philosophical questions of modern human genetics and gene engineering are analysing in the article. The authors notice the importance of the creative alliance between materialist rationalistic philosophy and modern human genetics and gene engineering.

The article presents an attempt to illuminate and discuss the possibility of conceptualizing the fantastic in the frameworks of classical and postmodern philosophical paradigms. It is suggested that primary concepts include ontological (being and nonbeing), epistemological (belief and doubt), and worldview (natural and supernatural) categories. Building upon the aforementioned notions, the author adds new constructs from the arsenal of post-nonclassical philosophy (transgression and limit). The study shows that theorizing about the transgressional experience of fantastic is only possible through overcoming the common belief in the dichotomy between real and unreal, natural and supernatural, reliable and unbelievable. Only such an approach is conducive to maintaining the unified meaning of the phenomenon of fantastic.

The maintenance and value of epoche in structure of E. Husserl's method of transcendent phenomenological reduction is considered in this article. Discrepancy of the research process of pure forms of consciousness and the universality of a unique basis of all representations variety is established here. The interrelation of the rational and irrational moments in the world outlook concept is estimated. Kant's ideas of pure contemplation are compared to their interpretation by representatives of phenomenology.