Abstract: In the early XX century, V. I. Vernadsky put forward a number of scientific and philosophical ideas of worldview character, which concern the understanding of qualitative change in the way of transforming the material world by a human, essence of environmental crisis, and associated with it adjustment of the place and role of a separate individual in the nature and society. Such ideas, as a result of the dominant within the academic community physicalism, have not been duly appreciated. At present time, these ideas obtained a sensuous-visual embodiment in practice, so the time for their verification has come. The methodology of verification of the environmental and worldview insights of Vernadsky suggests comparing the considerably antecedent perceptions of the academician with the empirically observed realities of evolution of the current socio-natural Universe and their theoretical substantiation based on the contemporary fundamental discoveries and achievements of the specific natural and social sciences in the context of practical changes of the existence of mankind. Drastic transformation of the moving forces and evolutionary trends of the current planetary socio-natural Universe unambiguously confirms the forecasting importance and righteousness of the antecedent environmental and worldview insights if Vernadsky, and priority of the Russian-Soviet scholar and philosopher in substantiating such insights for the revision of the overall previous ideas about the place and role of human in the nature and society, values, priorities, and social organization of social life, system of education and upbringing, etc. Confirmation of righteousness and conceptual ideas gives grounds for accepting them as the foundation for establishment of the integral worldview paradigm, relevant to current trends of evolution of the socio-natural Universe.

Keywords: insight, philosophy, science, evolution, Universe, man, society, nature, paradigm, worldview

Abstract: The subject of this research is the modern analytical philosophy and the problem of mental causation in particular. This problem consists in combination of persuasion in the causal closedness of the world with the idea that mental conditions are causally effective. The problem of mental causation is tradition in the history of philosophy; it has been raised even back within the framework of dualistic ideas of Descartes. The modern analytical philosophers have made a significant contribution into its solution. The author also examines the solutions for the problem of mental causation in the context of local interactionism, emergentism, and teleofunctionalism proposed by Russian and foreign philosophers. Scientific novelty consists in the fact that the author explores the most contemporary approaches towards solution of the problem of mental causation, which yet have never been thoroughly examined within the Russian or foreign history of philosophy. The author also presents a new argument for criticism of the local interactionism, as well as his own interpretation of the teleofunctional solution of the problem of mental causation.

Keywords: Mental, Over-determination, Emergentism, Argument of causal trajectories, Teleofunctionalism, Supervenience, Psycho-physical problem, Causal closure, Local interactionism, Mental causation

Abstract: The article is devoted to epistemological and ontological aspects of the problem of biological causality originating from a broad convergent interpretation of the nature of information and interaction between living objects. The authors focus on cognitive differentiations that relate to the strategies of perceiving and presenting information. The authors also describe particular features of information influences at the level of formation of causal connections between the source and the receiver (due to the non-objective nature of information media) and the process of perceiving messages. The results of researching the biogenesis of the ‘parasite-host’ system are generalized based on the example where parasites are bacterial nanoforms and the host is the epithelium of fish. Based on methodological approaches to construction of nano-bio-info-cognitive technologies, the authors of the article view a number of general issues of determinism as well as particular issues of formation of the cause-and-effect relations. This new interpretation of the framework of categories created the grounds for further determination of special features of communication causality. The authors of the article also try to compare the cause-and-effect patterns in the material world to their information equivalent. By using the three-level model of information influence offered by the authors, they define special features of the biogenesis in the ‘parasite-host’ system. The two-side nature of the causal connections is viewed as the most important condition for sustainable genesis of biological objects.

Keywords: convergent nature of information, model of information interactions, nano-bio-info-cognitive technologies, cause-and-effect relations, biological causality, colony of parasite, parasite-host, logic of the purposes of a living object, system adaptation, biogenesis sustainability.

Abstract: The explication and the analysis of some basic difficulties which realization of the project of «atemporal physics and metaphysics» in modern philosophy and a science faces is undertaken. It is shown, that key idea of the given project is attempt of representation of the objective reality (or so-called «the ultimate reality») as reality that is timeless at its fundamental level. The question on the ontological status of concepts of \"time\" and «the ultimate reality» from the point of view of the ontology of sciences is analyzed. Conclusion that concepts of \"time\", from one hand, and «the ultimate reality», from other hand, when latter one is considered as a synonym of the objective reality, are ontologically incompatible, is supposed. Ontological resources of the interdisciplinary approach to the problem of time in a context of the question of \"the ultimate reality» are explored. Some ontological criteria for the objectification of time in the ontology of science and metaphysics are formulated. Heuristic potential of the thesis of \"Realism\", as the fundamental metaphysical premise of a science, for the decision of a question on the nature of «the ultimate reality» and its temporal features is shown. Some difficulties connected with terminological aspect of a problem of elaborating of «atemporal metaphysics are analyzed.

Keywords: ultimate reality, eternity, time, philosophy of science, time: interdisciplinary researches, metaphysics of time, timelessness, atemporal metaphysics, ontology of science, objective reality.

Abstract: Based on linguistic data, Kenyanthropus platyops could manage genetic and induction methods of discovering the essence of things.

Keywords: philosophy, analogy, metaphor, generalization, synonym, synthesis, nature, Kenyanthropus platyops, Oldie language, Keni sign language, Rudi language.

Abstract: Based on the summary of the models of managing living systems, the author analyzes the connection between the material and spiritual aspects in mechanisms of information exchange between the above mentioned essences. Based on the supposition that construction or analysis of an object starts with the determination of the goal, the author suggests his own concept of the system applied to the description of natural and man-made entities. The author also suggests to use the concept of functional reliability when describing humanitarian systems. Functional reliability means part of the entire reliability of the system characterizing the researcher’s self-assurance and commitment to achieving the goal the system has been constructed for. It is also assumed that the functional reliability of the system is the most general synthesis and analysis criterion. The author suggests his own model of description of information exchange between living entities. The model involves the sign, image and symbolic levels of interactions. Using this model, life can be viewed s a form of information exchange between material and non-material substances which defines their systems organization. It is shown interactions between material elements cause the response to information exchange between sign levels. A living entity can perceive information exchange as well as form and transfer information at the sign and image level and use information at the symbolic level according to his spiritual qualities and features. Human is the only one living creature who can form information exchange at the symbolic level according to his spiritual qualities and goals.

Keywords: philosophy, system, purpose, information, sign, image, symbol, function, reliability, life.

Abstract: Virtual reality will help the future society to survive the collapse of the Universe.

Keywords: philosophy, impersonal dependence, Big Collapse, Ever Changing World, virtual reality, quantum web, personal dependence, superhighway matrix, time machine, super string technology.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the memory of Benoit Mandelbrot who died on October 14, 2005. He was a talented mathematician, the author of the book ‘The Fractal Geometry of Nature’ (1977), the father of the fractal geometry, honored member of the IBM corporation, sterling professor at Yale University, holder of many rewards in science, the researcher who coined the term ‘fractal’, demonstrated the universal nature of fractal structures in nature and created the fractal math for their description. He is the scientist who made the revolution in physics which eventually led to the fundamental discoveries, hypotheses and creation of new technologies.

Keywords: philosophy, Benoit Mandelbrot, fractal geometry, nature, fractal theory, harmony, fractals.

Abstract: Epistemological program of taking over time creates a new imperative of the epoch – a need in a transfer from epistemology of time to ecology of time. Ecology of time assumes that a human exists in his proper time patterns of the past, present and future. Based on this general conception, ecology of time can be described as a system of knowledge aimed at theoretical justification and practical preservation of time and space variety of existence including ecology of human himself as a main part of such knowledge.

Keywords: phenomenon of time, epistemological program, temporality, temporal topics, time irreversibility, global problems of modern age, engineering ecology, environmental arrow of time.

Abstract: All Universal laws obey the cause-and-effect law. This law is composed of nondecrease of enthropy and conservation laws. However, the cause-and-effect law does not work in 4 percent of cases.

Keywords: philosophy, Big Bang, probability, Universe, conservation laws, causality, cause-and-effect law, super strings, ‘dark matter’, philosophy, enthropy.

Abstract: There is one thing distinguishing Eastern and Western histories. In the East there has always been the prevailing number of neotenists inclined to psychological traditionalism while in the West the epochs of neoteny and epochs of acceleration take turns and episodes of psychological traditionalism of neotenists have been combined with epochs of psychological revolutions of accelerators

Keywords: acceleration, Hominini, demography, demographical and technological dependence, infantilism, cultural revolutions, migration, neoteny, Rubner’s constant, technological revolutions

Abstract: In modern astrophysics there is a prevailing hypothesis of accelerated expansion of the Universe under the influence of the ‘dark energy’. According to the author, this conception contradicts not only to the laws of nature but also to logic. However, philosophy can eventually solve numerous contradictions of the hypothesis.

Keywords: acceleration of expansion of the Universe, Great Attractor, Universe, quasars, Hubble constant, supernova, singularity, ‘dark energy’, ‘dark matter’, philosophy

Abstract: Review: the article is devoted to linguistic and philosophical and psychological aspects of language as a form of activity, problems of relations between reasoning and speech, psychological structure of a word and conception of an ‘inner form’ of a word described in words by a famous Ukrainian thinker and linguist A. A. Potebnya (1835-1891).

Keywords: philosophy, linguistics, A. A. Potebnya, language, activity, reasoning, psychology, understanding, myth

Abstract: The case of the first elementary particles formation proves that expansion of the Universe has a wave-like nature. Formation of elementary singularities (maximons) once stopped the Universe from further expansion. Such a point of view corresponds to the philosophical conception saying that infinite objects (including infinite Universe) just cannot be real.

Keywords: philosophy, Agglomerate of Pisces-Cetacean, Big Bang, Great Attractor, Ever Changing World, Universe, “end of the world”, conservation of energy, superstring, “dark matter”.

Abstract: Struggle for existence and natural selection of organisms played a great role in C. R. Darwin’s evolution theory. The author of the article has made an attempt to prove that those fundamental principles actually go beyond the evolution theory, have a significant meaning for the world outlook and consequently, are of interest to philosophers.

Keywords: philosophy, Darwinism, evolution, biosphere, mutagenesis, natural selection, biologization of social processes, physics, double meaning of the world order, world outlook.

Abstract: Among the mathematicians of the past, there have been the legend that the great mathematician P. Fermat had created the formula of a simple number, but did not inform his colleagues of this formula. As the author of this article points out, the reason for this complication had to do not only with the difficulty in the problem itself, but also in the philosophical approach to it…