The Russian higher education reform is ripe and overripe a long time. It is conducted primarily as optimization for purely economic criteria. This work contains a sketch of the actions that are able to adjust the conversion in connection with the orientation of the universities to the real labor market. This adjustment includes a number of significant steps towards the creation of a deep social partnership of government, business and academic communities.

The article analyzes the causes that led to a change in the role and place of the theoretical knowledge in scientific knowledge, as well as its impact on the modernization of educational practices and programs. Identifies and describes the processes of philosophical understanding of theoretical concepts and pragmatic considerations that affect the logic and dialectics of educational reforms. We consider the arguments «for» and «against» the transformation of teaching strategies in the context of a new interpretation of the conceptual opposition «theory-game.»

Article represents the short analysis of conditions of penetration of Jesuits into Russia. In the center of attention there is an influence of pedagogical system of Ignatiy Loyola, the founder of Society of Jesus, on formation of consciousness of the Russian aristocracy on the second half of 18-19th centuries and emergence of a phenomenon of the Russian Catholicism.

The article deals with to the history of transformation of the institution of confession in the obvious for every Christian person practice, the article identifies the specifics of these processes in Western and Eastern Christianity. The role of rationality in each of the designated denominations, and especially the impact of confessional practices of Catholicism and Orthodoxy on the formation of moral self-consciousness in Western Europe and Russia are shown.

Vladimir F. Ern holds a special place in the constellation of the distinguished philosophers of the early 20^th century. He inherited the line of synthesis of Russian and European culture from the previous generation of Russian Europeans headed by V.S. Solovyev. Vladimir Ern is a true example of a Russian European who seeks the path of unity for Russia and Europe. Not incidentally, the main object of Ern’s scientific interests was the Italian thought of the 19^th century. His studies of the writings of Catholic philosophers A. Rosmini and W. Gioberti had made a significant contribution to Russian science.

Written in August 1945 the text of Alexandre Kojeve on Latin Empire concerned economic and political matters of that time, but it had also to do with Kojeve’s Philosophy of History and his understanding of Christianity in general, and particularly of Roman Catholicism.

The Russian philosopher Vladimir Soloviev visited the Italian town of Sorrento (near Naples) during a big European trip of 1875-1876. It is in Sorrento, in the hotel “Cocumella”, that Soloviev had written (in French) the treatise “Sofia”, started in Egypt, which for the first time outlined his grand philosophical concept. The author investigates the circumstances of Vladimir Soloviev’s stay in Sorrento based on a large amount of factual material.

The article devoted to V.N. Ilyin’s researches about history of the Russian culture (from the archive of A. Solzhenitsyn’s House of the Russian abroad). The author of article analyzes the general concept of V.N. Ilyin, his methods and approaches to study of diverse material (science, music, philosophy). In author’s opinion, V.N. Ilyin created the original concept of the Russian culture, showed dialectics and spiritual bases of this culture.

The article is devoted to Vladimir Ilyin’s philosophy of culture. It deals with the problem of religious foundation of culture. The article also considers Ilyin’s conception of Russian culture and Russian literature.

The article is devoted to the 10th international interdisciplinary theoretical and practical symposium «Reflexive processes and control» which has taken place on 15th-16th October 2015 at the Institute of Philosophy RAS. The main topic of symposium was a problem of subjectlessness, characterized both development of Russia and development of human civilization as whole. Participants have analyzed fundamental methodological questions and philosophical basis of governance, particular issues of topical interest, related to contemporary governing practice. They also have marked preconditions for designing of future Russia’s project and shown that it is necessary - if Russia want to keep role of subject of worldwide development.