The article examines the contemporary world in connection with the development of the technologies for creation of artificial man and disappearance of biological man. It substantiated that the discussion on such a fateful issue is preferable to conduct only with the participation of reputable experts and with the involvement of public figures, the media and as openly as possible, that implies a wide public resonance with a focus on exceptional significance of the nature of the problem. That author states that for an adequate response to these challenges, which will more persistently assert themselves as the humanity enters the world of electronic civilization, there is a need for new scientific and humanitarian paradigms, new ethics, new philosophy, which are called collectively reveal a disproportionately more complex nature of the new cultural and civilizational continuum and are capable to analyze its multiple and contradictory processes.

The digitized world bears to humans both pros and cons. The transmission and processing of huge amounts of information facilitates. However, hacking and computer crimes are evolving. The use of digital devices for military purposes carries new dangers and may lead to the creation of cyberarmies. Advances in artificial intelligence and robotics in many activities are fraught with the creation of surplus working population. The dialectics of positive and negative in the construction of the digital world should become the subject of a thorough philosophical analysis.

The article discusses possible social and personal risks of modern net-society converging technologies, examines their genesis and problems of social adaptation. The author shows that adequate examination requires the interdisciplinary quantum synergetic paradigm. Social and humanitarian risks should be assessed with the conceptual model of Umwelt-analysis of techno-anthropological development landscapes and NBICS-technology analysis.

Human consciousness is studied in the paper as based on the detection of the relationship of philosophical anthropology and social psychiatry. Under this perspective it examines the ancient dialectic of soul and body, the interpenetration of the perspectives of philosophy and psychiatry in the modern scientific knowledge. Mental health is considered in dialectical unity with somatic status of the individual as its natural property, the preservation of which is a fundamental task of society.

The paper discusses modeling of possible worlds, centered on the non-human mind, which in different forms of culture tends to be called «extraterrestrial». It is proved that construction of such models in the art (literature, cinema) is always a genre convention, but in fact these worlds are completely unthinkable for a person, and this condition is primary not only for arts and everyday thinking, but also for science (astrobiology). Discussing the boundaries of language and thought the paper offers radical solution of the «Fermi Paradox», consisting in the fact that the main idea of extraterrestrial intelligence is meaningless, that allows to give a simple answer to the question by Enrico Fermi «Well, where are they?» (representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations).

The article focuses on possibility and problematicity of modern interrogation about a human being. Problematicity emerges as a man is put in a situation called «after Auschwitz», which is described with the categories of irreducibility (irreducibility of experience, means of self-determination). It is shown that the cultural form of representing such ultimate experience is testimony, which problematizes itself after Auschwitz. Precedents of such testimonies are described with examples of the works by Primo Levi and Varlam Shalamov. An attempt is made to substantiate that the modern experience of philosophizing about a human being - the modern anthropology - has to reject traditional efforts to determine a human being as «thing existent» or find some determinant essence. It is due to the situation «after Auschwitz» that questions all previous methods of human thinking. Moreover, a modern person increasingly chooses the so-called withdrawal scenario for a human being, rejection of actual social life in favor of imitating life and generating simulacrums, withdrawal to the virtual reality. In response to this withdrawal trend the author proposes a different scenario: an anthropological alternative in the form of anthropological practices of self-determination and testimonies about such anthropological practices.

The article analyzes works of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn members in the context of the history of philosophy. The author develops an idea that the history of Western philosophy is closely related to the history of Western eso-tericism. He applies this approach to the study of the Golden Dawn and concludes that the doctrine of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn can be described as a form of religious philosophy and philosophy of religion that emerged in the late 19^th century and was grounded in reach intellectual tradition.

The article deals with the gnoseological grounds of religious dogmatism and is based on the methodological principle of the unity between consciousness and activity. This unity determines the reasonability of human activity, which historically is formed in the course of labor activities. Religious dogmas are per se religious categories which emerged during the generalization of reality, their assimilation contribute to the development of believer’s abstract thinking.

The article examines the root, main aspects, and types of legal reasoning; relationship between elaborated capacity of the personality for legal reasoning and its legal age of maturity confirms. The article deals with juridical and linguistic approaches to examination of legal reasoning. The article argues that the attributes of legal reasoning (legitimacy, intersubjectivity, narrative and connotative features, emergence and symbolism) form the system and aim to establish total dependence of legal personality on statute of the law, whereas a reflector capacity for legal reasoning, that is in fact the display of sense, appears one of the conditions of legal personality’s development.

Inconsistency of the correspondence understanding of truth to law nature is indicated in the article. Philosophy of law is unable to consider legal uncertainty as the subject of rational discourse. Legal comparison construction as a procedure of legal truth-ἀλήθεια can be the logical justification of legal uncertainty. Legal comparison discourse is not only epistemology of legal systems interconnection but also is the structure of justification of court interpretation uncertainty.

The article is an overview of the only scientific conference in Europe, devoted to science fiction. It was organized at Samara University for the third time. The authors reveal the key questions discussed by the participants of the Third Lem’s Readings.