Editor's note — philosophy of nature rebuilt anew

Małgorzata Czarnocka

5-6

Philosophy of nature today

Introductory remarks

Włodzimierz Ługowski

7-14

Philosophy of nature and post-nonclassical rationality

Stiepin

15-29

Atomism today

classical and quantum concepts of elementary particles

Andrzej Łukasik

31-38

Synergetics

new universalism or natural philosophy of the age of post-nonclassical science?

Helena Knyazeva, Sergej Kurdjumov

39-60

Goethe and Ostwald

die Farbenlehre in the interpretation of an artist and a scientist

Danuta Sobczyńska

61-73

The noospheric mode of thinking and modern philosophy of nature

Lidia V. Fesenkova, Aleksandr V. Pankratov

75-86

The natural

so ambiguous a word

Teresa Kwiatkowska

87-99

Understanding human being

constructivism versus naturalism

Boris Yudin

101-113

Toward a scientific axiology of life

Andrzej Elżanowski

115-121

Nature in modern philosophical discourse

Igor K. Liseev

123-131

"it is better to light a candle than curse the darkness"

voices of nature and human responses

Teresa Kwiatkowska

133-149

The adaptation of man as a socio-natural problem

Ekaterina V. Petrova

151-162

The biologistic legitimization of social doctrines

Piotr Kendziorek

163-169

Has the conception of the quantum origin of the universe an absolute character?

Stanisław Butryn

171-180

The ontology of cognition

Jan Werszowiec Płazowski, Marek Suwara

181-190

The purposeful information

on the difference between natural and artificial life

Andrzej Gecow

191-206

Progress or crisis in the origin-of-life studies?

a philosophical perspective

Włodzimierz Ługowski

207-218

Ockham's razor and the problem of non-existence

modal and "economic" aspects

Marek Łagosz

219-225

The biological roots of knowledge

Oleg E. Backsansky

227-231