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The paper examines the issue of “two cultures” (natural science and humanities) in relation to the realities of contemporary education. The peculiarities of the humanities rationale are analyzed. The authors demonstrate that educational practices are based on incorrect assumptions regarding the correspondence between intellect and affect, the non-critical perception of which promotes an undesirable dissent between the two above mentioned cultures. The historical origins of the entrenchment of such assumptions are ...

The multidimensional space of the digital (networking) era is making adequate understanding of events increasingly difficult. Continuous accumulation and layering of infinitely large amounts of data (big data) is implicitly undermining qualitative forecast of any type, although it is supposed to work the other way round. Thus modern philosophers, interpreting the new digital reality, are facing the ever more obvious task of creating relevant ontological models, able to encompass the whole complexity of the network...

This paper focuses on the virological epistemology principles that form the basis for viral idea translation in terms of the world of knowledge (“Third World”, as defined by Karl Popper). Within this framework, five principles can be identified, specifically, dependence on the knowledge holder, infecting, spreading, networking and self-organization. For the evolutionary epistemology, with the modern evolutionary synthesis being its metaphorical resource, such transfer is quite traditional. Two constituents of the ...