Modern information technologies are actively changing the life of modern society. Today the socialisation as an important element of the individual's formation undergoes serious changes that need to be analysed. Virtual communications underlies the information support of socialisation process, replacing and largely expanding natural communications.

The article is devoted to the problem of genesis of Russian philosophical mind at the epoch of Ancient Russia after the beginning of Christianization. The Byzantine infuence and Cyril-Methodian heritage have been under way. The terms "philosopher" and philosophy" are analyzed on the basis of translation and original sources. The historiosophies, ethics, aesthetics, natural philosophies views are membered thanks to the sources.

The paper investigates the problem of interpretation of the philosophy of culture in the works of Vyacheslav Ivanov and Friedrich Nietzsche. The author constructs a dialogue about the importance of culture, God, the meaning of life and ways of overcoming the crisis of humanism, which refects the opposition between the aspiration to creative freedom through the overthrow of idols and authorities (Nietzsche) and optimistic adoption of a cultural tradition, based on the Christian faith (Ivanov).

The article analyzes the views of Vl. Solovyov and his followers upon historical process. The author reveales the role of All-unity in methodology and social philosophy of the thinkers and shows the causes and factors of social dynamics, its subject, meaning of historical progress and specifcs of its religious and social characterization.

In this text the author studies intellectual heritage of V.O. Klyuchevsky in the context of Russian cultural and political history, and comments on some aspects of historical and contemporary Russian life.

The article continues the author's examination of pluralistic concepts in the history of Russian philosophy (started in «Philosophical Sciences». 2012. № 6). This survey focuses on A. Herzen's «realism», systemic pluralism P. Pavrov's philosophical views, V. Rozanov's philosophical position, and G. Shpet's hermeneutic dialectics and social realism.

Participation of philosophy in so called NBICS (converging development of nano-, bio-, info-, cognitive and social technologies supplemented with humanities-based technologies) opens new ways of self-knowledge in philosophy. Diversity of models of philosophy for understanding and construction of new forms of knowledge and action may arise on these ways. A model presented in the paper is aimed to clear up conceptual links and interactions in the interdisciplinary problem of "knowledge society.

The article discusses three philosophical projects of uniting science and philosophy, formulated by the founders of 1) analytic philosophy, 2) phenomenology and 3) pragmatism - Bertrand Russell, Edmund Husserl and William James, accordingly. It is argued that Russell and Husserl's conceptions do not go beyond Kantian apriorism and, thus, do not take into account their own historical (scientifc) context whereas James' conception constitutes a fruitful attempt to connect changeable science with changeable philosophy.

The article deals with the key problems of teaching philosophy in higher school in contemporary Russia. The author notes the transitional crisis character of modern period of philosophical education's development. He also states the lack of common understanding of goal in teaching philosophy and therefore formulates an idea of con-textualizing it accordance to the global contemporary problems. The article stresses on the necessity of modernization of traditional forms of classes due to the changes of creation, spreading and use of information. In conclusion the experimental workshop «Visualization of philosophy» is described.

The paper argues that it is important to take into consideration and focus on the following agents of modernization: state, middle-class, creative class, science, and region. The problem of choosing agent of modernization in Russia and therefore ways of its further development is posed. Tomsk and Penza regions' agents of modernization are analysed.

The philosophical and methodological approaches to social networks study are analyzed in the article. On-line and off-line forms of social networks confgurators as philosophical discourses, that include the living space and cyberspace, are discussed. The author considers the prospects of post-non-classical methods application to the study of social networks phenomena, so long as these methods works with complex self-developing systems that have the human dimension.