The article deals with the interpretation of Kant’s concept of «world» in his inaugural dissertation in 1770. In Kant’s view, «the world» is a complex two-tier system, which includes both the domain, available sensory cognition, and the scope of the noumenal, perceived through the ideas of reason.

The article considers the views of Kant on art. The author shows that from Kant’s point of view the judgement of beautiful in different types of art cannot be justified rationally, but that to all kinds of arts the value judgment is applicable. So the author raises questions: What is the basis of the Kant’s judgment of value? What are the underlying assumptions which lead Kant to the judgment of the value, in particular of music? What is the specificity of the expression of beauty in music, and is it able «to supply the culture to the mind»?

The article concerns the discussion on the notion «Austrian philosophical tradition» which was proposed by R. Haller. The author argues that despite the number of the sufficient counterarguments, we still can justify this notion by the means of the institutional researches of the history of Austrian university.

The article interprets crisis in science methodology as inevitable consequence of cognition’s evolution from Presocratic philosophy to nowadays. The author shows that it concerned with a replacing the qualitative ancient world-view by the quantitative new-aged world-picture. The solution for the crisis in science methodology is supposed to be a formation of new paradigm in philosophy - ontology of wholeness.

The philosophical analysis finds out the theological preconditions in the theories of the state and law. It does various legal and political systems quantitatively incomparable. The task of the philosophical analysis consists in revealing a set of base metaphors, which determine a qualitative originality of various models of the state and law.

The article analyses ontological possibility of wholeness and ontological models of typological constructions. We note the meaning of wholeness in analysis of typological constructions. We point out the polysyllabic reality of typology which gives permissions to turn to different ontological interpretations of typology. The article examines the temporal and spatial basis of typological constructions in specific knowledge areas.

The article addresses to main subject of current debates in philosophy of mind and neuroscience that is simultaneously one of the aspects of mind-body problem in general. It is devoted to the problem of evaluating significance of first person perspective for the mind research. The problem is treated on the basis of analysis of philosophical conceptions of D. Dennett and T. Metzinger. First person perspective is treated as one of the qualitative phenomena of consciousness that can’t be adequately depicted with the help of objectivist language of natural sciences.

The article gives an overview of modern researches about G.V. Florovsky’s philosophical and theological works. The author of article considered various images of Florovsky presented in scientific literature. In author’s opinion, modern period in study of Russian philosophy is the time of critical researches which will open Florovsky’s ideas for general discussion.

The article contains the critic of Florovsky’s works and his idea of neopatristic synthesis. The author of article proves that the Florovsky’s concept based on the source of Western Europe’s philosophical and theological ideas. In his opinion, Florovsky opposed Christian Hellenism to the western theology, at the same time he consumed the ideas of German idealists and romantics. The author of article offers to refuse prejudiced polemic approach. He proposes to aspire to «meeting» of the Western and Eastern Christianity.

The article devoted to the investigation of G.V. Florovsky’s earlier unpublished work «Philosophy and religion» (1923) which is quite significant for understanding of its further religious and philosophical evolution. The Florovsky’s point of view is presented in a context of modern philosophy of religion’s researches. The author of article shows that Florovsky’s reflections about philosophy and religion were based on criticism of rationalism and recognition of a logical relativism.

Two basic philosophical approaches to the analysis of food and gastronomic culture are analysed in the article. Porphyry’s analysis is based on a system of binary definitions -hunger/appetite, suffering/enjoyment, body/soul, dirt/cleanliness. E. Levinas analises food as transformation of otherwise in sameness, feast as complicity, food as an experience of sincerity of existence. These two concepts contain opportunities of methodological framework for the analysis of contemporary gastronomic culture.